19th Meeting of the EU-Montenegro Joint Consultative Committee

For the 19th time, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and Montenegro held  the Civil Society Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) in at the EESC in Brussels on 27 November 2024. The JCC is a civil society platform established between the EESC and Montenegrin civil society. It complements with a civil society point of view the EU institutional framework related to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the EU and Montenegro. This joint institution allows civil society organisations on both sides to monitor the country's accession negotiations. It is also a platform to discuss issues of common interest and to inform the public at large on the challenges ahead during the accession period.

Main topics of the 19th meeting of the EU-Montenegro JCC were:

• Current state of play in EU-Montenegro relations: 2024 Enlargement Package and Montenegro Report, overview of the developments within the Berlin process
• Reform Agenda (RA) for Montenegro and the implementation of the New growth plan for the Western Balkans
• Montenegrin roadmap for fulfillment of the negotiation chapters’ closing benchmarks after the IBAR

• Overview of the civil society situation in Montenegro, including social dialogue

   

  Joint declaration was adopted by consensus. 

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