European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said on Thursday that, upon accession to the European Union, Croatia would not be subject to special monitoring in the judiciary like Bulgaria and Romania.
This time, the European Commission had no reason to recommend to member countries a monitoring system after the accession date, Fuele said in Vienna after meeting Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, according to Agence France-Presse.
Croatia will be under EU monitoring until accession, which is expected in July 2013, European diplomatic sources said earlier.
The European Commission will monitor how Croatia is complying with commitments in the time between the completion of the accession negotiations and actual accession through annual reports, while reports will be issued twice a year for three policy chapters - "Judiciary and Fundamental Rights", "Competition Policy" and "Justice, Freedom and Security".
The monitoring will include monitoring tables, which the European Commission has already used for all provisionally closed negotiating chapters, and visits by expert delegations to Croatia, the so-called peer missions.
The Commission on June 10 greenlighted the completion of the negotiations with Croatia, paving the way for EU accession on 1 July 2013.
