At the next intergovernmental accession conference, scheduled for April 19, Croatia will close negotiations on Chapter 1 - Free Movement of Goods, but none of the three as yet unopened chapters will be opened, Spanish EU Presidency spokeswoman Cristina Gallach confirmed to Hina on Tuesday.
Gallach said that the Spanish EU Presidency was planning another conference at the ministerial level in June, at which several policy chapters were expected to be opened and closed.
Croatia has opened 30 of the 33 negotiating chapters and of those 30 it has closed 17. The three chapters that remain to be opened are Chapter 8 - Competition Policy, Chapter 23 - Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, and Chapter 31 - Foreign, Security and Defence Policy.
Croatia has done its part of the work regarding the final three chapters and is now waiting for the European Union to adopt its common negotiating positions so that those chapters can be opened as well.
