The Serbian government adopted a national programme for the adoption of acquis for the period from 2013 to 2016. This document is a detailed, multi-year plan for the harmonisation of national legislation with EU regulations.
The plan follows the dynamics of the EU accession negotiations, and it will be revised annually in accordance with the actual steps in the process of membership negotiations. Moreover, 337 regulations, including 65 laws, are set to be adopted in 2013, and at the beginning of each year detailed legislative activity will be defined, the statement reads.
Such planning will considerably contribute to the acceleration of screening as the first phase of the start of talks that is the analysis of harmonization of domestic legislature with the EU acquis, the statement reads. The plan was drafted to connect the EU acquis and the domestic legal order so that the dynamics, scope and quality of this harmonization could be monitored at any moment.
The basic parts of this document are following all three membership criteria from Copenhagen - political, legal and economic criteria. Each of these three parts of the document will highlight the summary of the current situation, priorities for 2013 in terms of harmonization of legislature, administrative capacities, measures for implementation of priorities, measures for the 2014-2016 period, obligations stemming from the Stabilization and Association Agreement, the Interim Trade Agreement, and overview of current and planned foreign development help to Serbia.
The national program for the adoption of the EU acquis is also an instrument which allows the Serbian parliament to control the government's legislature plan and realization of these activities.
