He pointed out that Serbia was expecting 2.500 questions.
Bearing in mind experience of the neighboring countries, Đelić says that Serbia had a “dress rehearsal” from December 2009 year until May 2010 and that it has prepared answers to a large number of questions which the questionnaire will most certainly contain.
“We’ll see what the new, specific questions are and we’ll refresh the data,” he said last night and added that he expected that the most delicate question will be about the judiciary.
“For the first time some of the hardcore criminals are arrested, some have already been convicted, their property is frozen and seized and in that sense our country got very positive marks. It now remains to be checked whether there were some individual omissions in the election of judges and prosecutors,” the deputy PM added.
He repeated that EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele would bring the EC questionnaire on November 24 and that he would then be given the government’s EU action plan for 2011 which was prepared on the basis of the EC report.
“By the end of the year we will elaborate on all measures to do a large part of the work in the first half of the next year so the EC, along with the member states, could prepare an opinion for Serbia’s EU candidate status in September or in October,” Đelić pointed out.
According to him, Serbia’s plan is to harmonize its legislation with the European legislation by the end of 2012.
The deputy PM stressed that the issue of Serbia’s EU accession depended solely on social situation in Europe and Serbia’s ability to solve the issue of Kosovo.
“Deadlines depend only on our reforms, we will have to have a solution for the issue of Kosovo before we join the EU, but we won’t recognize the independence of Kosovo,”
Đelić concluded.
