Belgrade: Bozidar Djelic stated that Serbia requires accepting some 65,000 laws and further lawful acts in the course of conjoining the European Union (EU), owing to which it is essential that administrative authorities and parliament exploit effectiveness.

In an interview, Djelic betokened to the reality that Serbian parliament in its previous term acquired over 200 laws in a time period of three years, whereas in the concluding stage of connecting the EU Slovenia had a scheme that granted it to accept 120 laws in a single day.

He called up that Bulgaria was also faced with a lack of time so the Bulgarian parliament even followed a few laws in the English language, and added up that because of the huge amount of work Serbia must initiate alterations to rules on execution of parliament.

According to him, Serbia should start discussions by the end of the year on embarking the White Schengen List, and in these talks the law on travel documents should be embraced as soon as possible that would make it possible to bring out Serbian passports with biometric statistics.

He added, “We must also adopt laws on borders, asylum and foreigners, and we must show that we are fully in control of who is entering and leaving Serbia, and the state should also conduct a serious fight against organised crime.”

While pointing out on funds distribution from the National Investment Plan so far, Djelic stated that in the preceding years developmental projects in Serbia were parted into thousands of smaller projects, because of which people have not considered what privatization proceeds were spent on.

“We cannot show citizens which capital infrastructure was built or what kind of concrete progress was made, due to that, in autumn I plan to recommend serious changes to the Budget System Law and the Public Procurement Law,” said Djelic.

He stressed out that privatization of public projects cannot start before a detailed law and programme is followed for each of these companies, and added that in the future not even a single Euro acquired through privatisation will be used for public expenditure.