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Negotiation state
The European Council of June 2004 granted the status of candidate country to Croatia.Accession negotiations with Croatia were opened in October 2005.
The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between Croatia and the EU was signed in October 2001 and entered into force in February 2005.
As outlined in the European Commission’s Croatia 2007 Progress Report, so far, negotiations have been opened on fourteen chapters (science and research, education and culture, economic and monetary policy, industrial policy, customs, intellectual property rights, services, company law, statistics, financial services, financial control, information society and media, consumer and health protection, as well as external relations) and provisionally closed on two (science and research, education and culture).
On ten chapters (public procurement; competition policy; justice, freedom and security; social policy/employment; capital; goods; agriculture; environment; food safety; regional policy) opening benchmarks were agreed by Council and communicated to Croatia.
At this stage, the Commission considers only the opening benchmark on justice, freedom and security to be met.
Implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) has largely continued without major difficulty. The main exception is continued non- compliance with state aid provisions, in particular the need to present acceptable restructuring plans in the shipbuilding and steel sectors. Important efforts have been made to improve implementation of SAA provisions on access to real estate.