Slovenia: membership application and partnership, 10 June 1996

The committee adopted the report by Demetrio VOLCIC (PES, I) expressing a broadly upbeat view of Slovenia's progress towards membership. The committee noted that Slovenia planned to be ready for accession on 1 January 2003 and that it had taken significant political and economic steps to align itself with the "acquis communautaire". Points still to be addressed included the need to inject transparency into the rules governing foreign investment flows and to reach cross-party agreement on the division of Slovenia into regions.�