Mimica met with Fuele a few days ahead of the release of a report on the pre-accession monitoring of three acquis communautaire chapters - Competition Policy, Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, and Justice, Freedom and Security.
Mimica said a positive overall assessment of compliance with Accession Treaty commitments could be expected, adding that the European Commission and member countries would focus on judicial reform, Schengen regime requirements, and shipbuilding.
"We didn't get the impression that some of the issues being mentioned in public as being part of the report will be especially stressed in this report," he said.
There have been reports in the Croatian public that the Commission's report will contain remarks about a bill of amendments to the Conflict of Interest Law which enable politicians to sit on supervisory boards of public companies and the abolishment of invitations for positions in state companies' supervisory boards.
Mimica said it had been agreed with the Commission to hold consultations to jointly assess what Croatia was doing in the implementation of the commitments it had undertaken.
The Commission has signalled that it is not happy that some laws, such as the Conflict of Interest Act, were amended without consultations with it.
"We confirmed that we would transfer parts of the European acquis communautaire into the Croatian legislation at the pace agreed and that, with regard to the parts referring to the Police Act, the Conflict of Interest Act and the Distraint Officers Act, we will intensify contacts with the Commission so that we can reach solutions which have a joint political assessment of the best model of action in those areas," said Mimica.
Croatia's EU Accession Treaty defines that the Commission will monitor Croatia's compliance with commitments in all negotiation chapters - notably Competition Policy, Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, and Justice, Freedom and Security - until the day of accession.
The Commission will release reports on those three policy chapters every six months, the first of which will be issued in a few days. A comprehensive monitoring report will be released in October.
After today's talks, the European Commission issued a statement in which Fuele welcomed the progress Croatia had made in preparations for EU membership.
"I am encouraged by the fact that overall Croatia has continued to make progress in its preparations for membership since the closure of accession negotiations in June 2011," Fuele said, adding that "We expressed our common commitment to a successful and well-prepared accession on 1 July 2013."
"Croatia's EU accession is less than fifteen months away and it is essential to use this time to complete the remaining tasks related to the EU- membership. I am convinced that Croatia will remain firmly focussed on this and will continue to respect the commitments taken in the accession negotiations," Fuele said.
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