European Partnership for 2008
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Brussels, 18 February 2008- On 18 February 2008, the Council of EU has passed the Decision 2008/213/EC on the principles, priorities and conditions contained in the European Partnership with Serbia including Kosovo as defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999 and repealing Decision 2006/56/EC.
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European Commission passed the Annual Report for Serbia, 2007.
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Brussels, 6 November 2007 – European Commission adopted today the annual strategic document that elaborates the EU enlargement policy. The document also contains a part relating to the progress of reforms in the previous 12 months which were realised by the candidate and potential candidate countries: Croatia, Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
The Progress Reports for 2007 were also announced, whereby the Commission estimates the progress of individual candidate and potential candidate country in the previous year. This “enlargement package” also contains the proposal for the Council for revising the European Partnership document for each country, indicating the areas that require further reforms. Finally, the Multiannual financial framework indicates the financial aspects that will be available for supporting the reforming efforts of candidate and potential candidate countries.
You can download the 2007 Progress Report of the EC for Serbia.
Other documents are available on:
http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/key_documents/reports_nov_2007_en.htm |
Annual Progress Report of the European Commission for Serbia in SAP for 2006
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Brussels, 8 November 2006 – European Commission published the paper Annual Progress Report for Serbia in the Stabilisation and Association Process in 2006.
European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn said during his presentation of this report in Brussels that Serbia made an encouraging development in this period and he underlined the improvement of macroeconomic situation and the quality of Serbian administrative capacity.
According to the European Commission report, published today in Brussels, in 2006 Serbia made progress in all domains of economy, politics, administration, justice and security, but there is still a set of problems that have to be resolved in order to step up the European integration process. |
European Partnership for 2006 and Annual Report of the EC for 2005
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Brussels, 7 February 2006 – On 30 January 2006, the Council of EU has passed the Decision on principles, priorities and conditions contained in the European Partnership with Serbia-Montenegro, including Kosovo. By announcement of this Decision in Official Journal of EU of 7 February 2006, previous Decision 2004/520/ЕС ceased to be valid. On 9 November 2005, European Commission issued the document Proposal Decision of the European Partnership with Serbia-Montenegro and the Annual Report on SCG progress in the Stabilisation and Association Process for 2005. Decision of the European Partnership with Serbia-Montenegro
Annual Report on SCG progress in the Stabilisation and Association Process for 2005.
Government of the Republicof Serbia at its session of 7 April 2006 adopted Plan for realisation of European Partnership, which can be downloaded HERE |
European Partnership
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At the European Summit in Thessalonica held on 21 June 2003, the European Union offered European Partnership to the Western European countries as one of the key instruments of the EU pre-accession strategy for the potential EU membership candidates. The EU Council of Ministers adopted the Decision on the principles, priorities and conditions contained in the European Partnership with Serbia-Montenegro including Kosovo, in compliance with the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999. The Partnership lists short- (12-24 months) and mid-term (3-4 years) priorities for the preparations for further integration in the EU. This mechanism shall exclusively determine relations between the EU and our country until the Stabilisation and Association Agreement has been signed. One of the most important facts regarding European Partnership is that the financial assistance is conditioned by the implementation of the priorities (Annex to the document, Article 5). In other words, the document shall exclusively arrange relations between the EU and our country all the way through to the signing of in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement-it is a new framework for defining relations between the EU and the Western Balkans. Financial assistance is also conditioned by the progress achieved in meeting the Copenhagen criteria, although these are the criteria set to be met for the membership, not for the association. On the publication of this document, Serbian Government adopted Information on European Partnership and the need to adopt the Action Plan in order to meet the priorities set in the European Partnership. Please click on this link to view the English version of the document. |
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