Miscevic: Action plans under preparation

BELGRADE - Serbia is preparing action plans to announce the ways of implementing the recommendations from the European Commission screening reports, Tanja Miscevic, the chief negotiator in Serbia's EU accession talks, has said, adding that the first version of the plans will be presented in Brussels in September.

The action plans will provide answers to the question of how the EU recommendations will be implemented, how much that will cost Serbia and whose responsibility it will be, Miscevic said on Monday during the constitutive session of the National Convent on the European Union in Serbia task force for negotiation chapter 23, attended by many representatives of non-governmental representatives.

The National Convent on the EU brings together several hundred organisations that will monitor the process of negotiations between Serbia and the EU, provide comments and represent the ideas and proposals of the civil society in the process, with the task force to be coordinated by the Human Rights House.

The Serbian translation of the screening report on Chapter 23, which relates to the rule of law, will be published on the website of the Ministry of Justice in the next few days, Miscevic announced.

Much has been done in the judicial reform since the text of the report was written, especially in the field of legislation, she noted.

"The action plan is the first step, followed by our negotiating position, which we need to present to the government and the parliamentary committee on European integrations, but there will be room to also include the Convent into the procedure," Miscevic said.

The organiser of the National Convent on the EU, Natasa Dragojlovic of the European Movement in Serbia, said that...