Head of Mission of the Republic of Serbia to the EU, Ambassador Duško Lopandić has signed on 25 June 2014 in Brussels on behalf of the Government of Serbia Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union. Theodoros N. Sotiropoulos, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Hellenic Republic to the European Union and Christian Danielsson, Director General for Enlargement at the European Commission have signed the Protocol for the European Union and its Member states. The aim of Protocol is to adapt concession in the SAA to concessions that were effective in CEFTA. In fact, Croatia has left the trade regime, which was regulated by the CEFTA and the legal framework for trade between Croatia and Serbia became the SAA. The Protocol will enter into force provisionally on 1 August 2014 which is first day of the second month following the signing