Explanatory screening meeting for Chapter 9 on Financial Services was held in Brussels on 21 and 22 January 2015.
Delegation of the Government of the Republic of Serbia was headed by Mr. Zlatko Milikić, Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Finance and Deputy Head of the Negotiating group 9, and Mr. Srđan Majstorović, Deputy Director of the European Integration Office, on behalf of the Head of the Negotiating Team with the EU. In the Serbian delegation were also other representatives of the Ministry of Finance, as well as of the Central Bank of Serbia, Deposit Insurance Agency, Securities Commission, Serbian Export Credit and Insurance Agency and European Integration Office.
At the explanatory screening meeting for Chapter 9, chaired by a representative of the Directorate-General Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, the experts of the Directorate-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, presented in detail the relevant acquis divided into the following parts: banking and financial conglomerates; insurance and occupational pensions; financial markets infrastructure; securities markets and investment services.
The bilateral screening meeting, when Serbian side will present its legal system in this area, as well as gaps in relation to the EU acquis, is scheduled for 17 and 18 March 2015.