At its session of 31 July 2003, the Serbian Government adopted the first Action Plan for the Approximation of Domestic Laws with the Acquis Communautaire. Later on, the Statement on the Approximation of Draft Laws, Other Regulations and General Legal Acts with the Acquis Communautaire was introduced in the legislative procedure. It is a written statement of a public institution or organisation responsible for drafting a law or proposing a bill, other regulation or general legal act, which evaluates the level of its approximation with the acquis communautaire.

The Statement accompanies every draft law. The head of the public institution or organization that proposed the regulation approves the Statement by signing it.

The Statement determines the relevant legal act of the EU, either of the primary or secondary source, evaluates the level of approximation of the domestic legal act (approximated, partly approximated, not approximated), gives the reasons for its partial approximation as well as the deadline for making its full approximation.

The introduction of the Approximation Statement does not imply obligatory approximation with the EU legislation; there is a possibility of postponing the approximation in case there are no technical and economic conditions. A draft law, other regulation or general legal act that is not accompanied by the Statement is returned to the public institution or organisation that proposed it for finishing touches.