Bilateral screening meeting for Chapter 33 on Financial and Budgetary Provisionswas held in Brussels on 24 March 2015.
Delegation of the government of the Republic of Serbia was headed by Ms Mirjana Ćojbašić, Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Finance and Deputy Head of the Negotiating group 33, and Ms Tanja Miščević, Head of Negotiating Team with the EU. In the delegation were also other representatives of the Ministry of Finance, as well as of the administrative authorities within this ministry – Tax Administration, Customs Administration and Public Debt Administration, accompanied by civil servants from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, National bank of Serbia and European Integration Office.
At the bilateral screening meeting for Chapter 33, chaired by a representative of the Directorate General for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, civil servants of the line ministries and institutions presented in detail the situation in this field divided into the following parts: own resources and administrative infrastructure; VAT resource; GNI resource. After the presentations, Serbian civil servants were replying to the questions of the experts from DG BUDG and DG ESTAT. Representatives of DG BUDG explained in the end of the meeting the planned technical assistance and monitoring programme.
Assistant Minister Ms Mirjana Ćojbašić accepted at the end of the meeting harmonization of the legal system of the Republic of Serbia with the EU acquis in the field of financial and budgetary provisions.
This was, in fact, the last, 65thscreening meeting. The process lasted for 130 screening-days and it involved almost two thousand civil servants and officials of the government of the Republic of Serbia.