Bilateral screening meeting for Chapter 18 on Statistics was held in Luxembourg, on 25 and 26 June 2014.
Delegation of the Government of the Republic of Serbia was headed by Mr. Dragan Vukmirović, Director of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, and Mr. Srđan Majstorović, Deputy Director of the Serbian European Integration Office, as a representative of the Head of Negotiating Team with the EU. In the delegation were other civil servants of the Office, as well as of the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Issues, Central Bank of Serbia and Serbian European Integration Office.
At the bilateral screening meeting for Chapter 18, chaired by a representative of the Directorate General for Enlargement, the representatives of the Statistical Office, line-ministries and institutions presented the legal body of the R. of Serbia in the areas of sectoral, business, economic, demographic and other statistics. Following the presentations, civil servants were replying to the questions of the experts of DG Eurostat.
At the end of the meeting, Mr. Vukmirović accepted the transposition of the EU acquis in this area into the legal system of the Republic of Serbia.