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Legal reforms in the field of public health and the accession of the Republic of Serbia to the European Union - a review of regulatory standards

Sjeničić Marta (Institut društvenih nauka, Beograd, Srbija)
Milenković Marko (Univerzitet „Džon Hopkins“, Škola za napredne međunarodne studije, Bolonja, Italija)

Accession to the European Union (EU) is a comprehensive process of reforms and harmonization of legislation with EU regulations, which must be accompanied by the implementation of EU standards. Although the EU competencies in the field of health care are limited, and health law does not represent a large part of the EU legislation, harmonization and further reforms are needed in a number of areas. The main focus of this paper is the negotiation Chapter 28 within the EU accession process, which covers a number of thematic areas in the field of public health encompassing various legislative and strategic acts of the EU. At the moment, the EU has still not opened the negotiations in this field with Serbia. In order to introduce health professionals in Serbia to current developments, the paper analyzes the most important aspects of alignment with EU legislation and the need for further regulatory reforms.

Keywords: European Union, harmonization of legislation, public health, accession process

Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 179023: Ljudska prava i vrednosti u biomedicini - demokratizacija odlučivanja u zdravstvu i implementacija