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Division Key Priorities

United Kingdom

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  • Ensure proper implementation of all commitments undertaken in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement,

  • update and implement the strategy and action plan for judicial reform,

  • rapidly adopt and implement a strategic framework for public administration reform,

  • update and accelerate implementation of the anti-corruption programme and related action plans and ensure more coordinated and proactive efforts to prevent, detect and effectively prosecute corruption, especially at high level,

  • implement the Constitutional Law on National Minorities, with particular attention to its provisions guaranteeing proportional representation of minorities in employment. Tackle discrimination more widely in the public sector,

  • complete the process of refugee return; definitively settle all cases of housing care for former occupancy/tenancy rights holders; complete reconstruction and repossession of property and reopen the possibility for convalidation claims,

  • pursue efforts aimed at reconciliation among citizens in the region,

  • enhance efforts to find definitive solutions to pending bilateral issuesf1, in particular border issues, with Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and resolve the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone issue,

  • maintain full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and ensure integrity of domestic war crimes proceedings,

  • improve the business environment and economic growth potential, in particular by reducing subsidies, restructuring large loss-making enterprises and increasing the efficiency of public spending.

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Some Member States underlined in this context the importance of accelerating the process of restitution of property, in line with the relevant Croatian Constitutional Court rulings.