The European Integration Committee monitors the process of adjustment of Croatian legislation to the EU acquis communautaire, while the National Committee is an advisory body in charge of monitoring the talks on all negotiating chapters.
Mimica said that about 200 laws had been adjusted to date and that another 60 should be harmonised this year, and added that the whole work should be completed by the end of 2008.
On the subject of the National Committee, he said that it was the result of a consensus in Parliament, because all parliamentary parties support Croatia's EU membership bid as the country's top foreign policy priority.
The Norwegian ambassador said she found it to be a great success for Croatia to have achieved the consensus of all the parliamentary parties on integration with the European Union.
"I am impressed with the structure you have established in the Sabor (Parliament) to monitor this process, and Norway strongly supports you in that, although it is not an EU member," Walaas said.
She pointed out that European integration processes were very important for society as a whole, the development of democracy, stability and economic prosperity of the country, and said that Norway would be glad to convey its experience from talks with the EU on agriculture and fisheries.
Walaas concluded by saying that her country wanted closer ties with Croatia and that it supported Croatia's aspirations to join the EU and NATO.