The Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER), made up of heads or deputy heads of missions from the EU member states, has endorsed reports on two chapters - Consumer and Health Protection Chapter and External Relations Chapter - after which the German Presidency of the EU invited Zagreb to submit new negotiating positions. COREPER decided that Croatia was prepared to open negotiations on these chapters without benchmarks.
A EU-Croatia inter-governmental conference is scheduled to be held at the end of this month at which negotiations on at least one chapter - Intellectual Property Law - would be opened.