EU’s Benchmarking within Chapters 23 and 24 in Accession Negotiations with Serbia: Effect and Challenges
EU’s Benchmarking within Chapters 23 and 24 in Accession Negotiations with Serbia: Effect and Challenges

Author(s): Sena Marić, Dragana Bajić
Contributor(s): Milena Lazarević (Editor), Srđan Majstorović (Editor)
Subject(s): Criminal Law, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, EU-Legislation, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: Centar za evropske politike CEP
Keywords: EU accession; Serbia; Chapters 23 and 24; Benchmarking; Rule of law; Judiciary reform; Fundamental rights; Justice and home affairs; EU negotiations; Challenges; Compliance;
Summary/Abstract: It has been exactly one year and a half since the opening of Chapters 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental Rights) and 24 (Justice, Freedom and Security) in the framework of European Union (EU) - Serbia accession negotiations. These two chapters, which address the issues related to the rule of law, have been the spiritus movens of the EU’s strategy towards the Western Balkan (WB) candidate countries, a strategy which is still evolving. Ever since the “new approach to enlargement” was defined in 2012, the EU has been upgrading its tools and resources in order to incentivise rule of law related reforms in the candidate countries and evaluate the results in that respect.

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