Press Release: Accession conference with Montenegro: Talks opened on chapters 12 and 13

The fourth meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro at Deputy level was held on 30 June 2016 in Brussels to open two negotiating chapters: Chapter 12 - Food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, and chapter 13 - Fisheries.

With this conference, out of a total of 35 negotiating chapters, 24 chapters have now been opened for negotiations of which 2 chapters have already been provisionally closed.

The EU considered that some benchmarks were required to provisionally close both chapters. These included legislative amendments as well as the administrative capacity to implement and enforce the relevant acquis in the respective chapters.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background Information: Montenegro and EU open two more negotiating chapters in accession process http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-montenegro-and-eu-open-two-more-negotiating-chapters-in-accession-process/

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