Meeting of the Working Group for Western Balkans of the Committee of the Regions was held on 28 May in the Committe of Regions in Brussels. Chair of the Working Group for WB in the Committee of the Regions Mia de Vits, said that the Committee of the Regions invited the representatives of the regional and local levels of government across Europe to help the flooded areas in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. De Vits recalled that in the past two years, CoR achieved a good level of communication with local and regional authorities in Serbia. Two meetings of the working group were held in Serbia in 2012 and 2013 in Kragujevac and Novi Sad. Deputy Head of of Mission of Republic of Serbia to the EU, Ambassador Miloš Todorović informed about the ongoing activities of relevant ministries and institutions in the constitution of the Serbian part of the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), and it can be expected that the entire process from the Serbian side to be completed in June-July this year. In the panel devoted to the analysis of the state of local and regional structures in Serbia, participated Dejan Jovanovic, counselor of the City of Nis, Olivera Drenovac, counselor in Assembly of the City of Krusevac and Miodrag Milosevic, Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Mayor of Novi Sad. They have presented the activities and projects of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities of Serbia, projects in the framework of strengthening administrative capacity and infrastructure of cities and municipalities in Serbia and analyzed the needs and directions of further involvement of local government structures in various activities relevant to the process of EU integration of Serbia.