Accession of Serbia to the European Union

Accession of Serbia to the European Union
Accession of Serbia to the European Union
Status	Candidate negotiating
Earliest possible entry	2029
European perspective	21 June 2003
Application
European perspective	21 June 2003
Potential candidate	21 June 2003
Membership application	22 December 2009
Candidate status	1 March 2012
Screened & negotiations commence	25 March 2015
Clusters open	2
Negotiations
Clusters open	2
Chapters open	22
Clusters closed	0
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Chapters closed	2† ; †Chapter 25 – Science and research and Chapter 26 – Education and culture are provisionally closed. Chapter 34 - Institutions is currently not applicable.
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EU Free Trade Agreement	1 September 2013
Memberships & Treaties
Association Agreement
	1 September 2013
Economic and monetary policy
EU Free Trade Agreement	1 September 2013
World Trade Organization (WTO)	Undergoing accession process.
Euro & the Eurozone	The euro is widely accepted in Serbia, although it has no formal approval, and the official currency of the country is the Serbian dinar
Travel
Schengen visa liberalisation	19 December 2009
Energy
Energy Community	Member since 9 August 2006
Euratom	Serbia is not a member. Serbia does not have any nuclear power, but it does have a moratorium on the development of nuclear energy.
ENTSO-E	Elektromreža Srbije is a member.
Foreign and military policy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)	Individual Partnership Action Plan since 15 January 2015 Main article: Serbia–NATO relations
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)	1 August 1975 (as Yugoslavia)
Human rights and international courts
Council of Europe (CoE)	since 2003 (as Serbia and Montenegro)
International Criminal Court (ICC)	Serbia and Montenegro deposited their instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute on 6 September 2001. The Rome Statute entered into force on 1 July 2002.
International Court of Justice (ICJ)	Main articles: Bosnian genocide case and Croatia–Serbia genocide case
Impact (27+1)

Serbia applied to join the European Union (EU) in 2009 and has been a candidate for membership since 2012 (along with nine other states), while negotiations started in 2014 and are still ongoing. Serbia is the largest country in Southeast Europe seeking entry into the EU.