{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-119/annex/division-3/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2008/119",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 12 February 2008 on the principles, priorities and conditions contained in the Accession Partnership with Croatia and repealing Decision 2006/145/EC (2008/119/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-119",
  "path": "annex/division/3/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Key Priorities",
  "text": "Ensure proper implementation of all commitments undertaken in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement,\nupdate and implement the strategy and action plan for judicial reform,\nrapidly adopt and implement a strategic framework for public administration reform,\nupdate 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,\nimplement 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,\ncomplete 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,\npursue efforts aimed at reconciliation among citizens in the region,\nenhance efforts to find definitive solutions to pending bilateral issues, in particular border issues, with Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and resolve the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone issue,\nmaintain full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and ensure integrity of domestic war crimes proceedings,\nimprove the business environment and economic growth potential, in particular by reducing subsidies, restructuring large loss-making enterprises and increasing the efficiency of public spending.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}