EU Accession Timeline
Serbia
2021
Opening of cluster 4 chapters
14 - transport policy, 15 - energy, 21 - Trans-European networks, and 27 - environment and climate change
2019
Opening of 2 chapters
4 - free movement of capital and 9 - financial services
2018
Opening of 4 chapters
13- fisheries, 33- financial and budgetary provisions, 17- economic and monetary policy 18- statistics
2017
Opening of 6 chapters of which chapter 26 education and culture is provisionally closed
20- enterprise and industrial policy, 26- education and culture, 7- intellectual property law, 29- customs union, 6- company law and 30- external relations
2016
Opening of 4 chapters of which chapter 25 science and research provisionally closed
23 - judiciary and fundamental rights, 24- justice, freedom and security 5 - public procurement and 25 - science and research
2015
Opening of two chapters
32- "financial control" and 35- "other issues - item 1: normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo*"
2014
The first intergovernmental conference and the initiation of the screening process
2013
Accession negotiations opened
2012
Serbia is granted candidate status
2009
Submits formal application for EU membership
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence