REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEGISLATIVE ADJUSTMENT WITH EU NORMS ENDS

PRISTINA, March 9 (Hina) - The first regional conference on legislative adjustment with European Union standards wrapped in Pristina on Sunday. #L# The two-day event was organised by the Kosovo Institute for Euro- Atlantic Integration and pooled government representatives from Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo. Participants agreed to hold a similar conference once again, most probably in Croatia. The second day of the conference, representatives of Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo spoke about their efforts to adjust their legislation with the EU. The president of the Kosovo Institute for Euro-Atlantic Integration, Blerim Reka, said the conference had been a success. He announced talks between delegations of the European Commission and the Kosovo government about a new so-called Kosovo-EU mechanism for March 13. "We hope it will be a good start of Kosovo's gradual approach to the European Union." He said Kosovo legislation was being adjusted with EU standards from the start as all drafts were the result of joint work between the Kosovars and experts of the EU and the United States Agency for International Development. (hina) ha