C 47/102
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
7.2.2023
Wednesday 6 July 2022
P9_TA(2022)0284
2021 Report on Serbia European Parliament resolution of 6 July 2022 on the 2021 Commission Report on Serbia (2021/2249(INI)) (2023/C 47/08)
The European Parliament, — having regard to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part, which entered into force on 1 September 2013 (1), — having regard to Serbia’s application for membership of the European Union of 19 December 2009, — having regard to the Commission opinion of 12 October 2011 on Serbia’s application for membership of the European Union (COM(2011)0668), the European Council’s decision of 1 March 2012 to grant Serbia candidate status and the European Council’s decision of 27-28 June 2013 to open EU accession negotiations with Serbia, — having regard to the Presidency conclusions of the Thessaloniki European Council meeting of 19-20 June 2003, — having regard to the Sofia declaration of the EU-Western Balkans summit of 17 May 2018, — having regard to the Zagreb Declaration of the EU-Western Balkans Summit on 6 May 2020, — having regard to the Brdo Declaration of the EU-Western Balkans summit of 6 October 2021, — having regard to the Berlin Process launched on 28 August 2014, and to the eighth Berlin Process Summit of 5 July 2021, — having regard to the Sofia Summit of 10 November 2020, the Western Balkan Leaders Declaration on Common Regional Market of 9 November 2020 and the Sofia Declaration on the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans of 10 November 2020, — having regard to UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999, to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion of 22 July 2010 on the accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo, and to UN General Assembly Resolution 64/298 of 9 September 2010, which acknowledged the content of the ICJ opinion, and welcomed the EU’s readiness to facilitate dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, — having regard to the first agreement on principles governing the normalisation of relations between the governments of Serbia and Kosovo of 19 April 2013, to the agreements of 25 August 2015, and to the ongoing EU-facilitated dialogue for the normalisation of relations, — having regard to the Commission communication of 5 February 2020 entitled ‘Enhancing the accession process — A credible EU perspective for the Western Balkans’ (COM(2020)0057), — having regard to the Commission communication of 6 October 2020 entitled ‘An Economic and Investment Plan for the Western Balkans’ (COM(2020)0641), and to the Commission staff working document of 6 October 2020 entitled ‘Guidelines for the Implementation of the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans’ (SWD(2020)0223), — having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/1529 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 September 2021 establishing the Instrument for Pre-Accession assistance (IPA III) (2),
(1) (2)
OJ L 278, 18.10.2013, p. 16.
OJ L 330, 20.9.2021, p. 1.