Complete the establishment of the legal and institutional set-up on standardisation, market surveillance, certification, metrology, accreditation and conformity assessment in line with the European Community acquis communautaire to create conditions favourable to trade. Start adopting European standards.
Establish internal consultation and notification mechanisms for new technical regulations prior to their adoption on measures having an impact on trade.
Establish a legal framework and administrative capacity for active consumer and health protection in line with EU consumer and health policy.
Continue the necessary reforms to comply with WTO rules and obligations in order to accelerate the WTO accession process.
Further align customs legislation and procedures with the acquis. Continue to modernise the customs administrations in order to ensure a high level of administrative capacity and to fight against corruption, cross-border crime and fiscal evasion.
Amend and implement legislation in the area of rules of origin in order to introduce a legal basis for the application of the EC rules of origin for the purposes of the autonomous trade measures, for this purpose ensure the provision of information and training to operators and customs officers.
Further align tax legislation with the acquis. Improve implementation of tax laws, focusing on revenue collection and control in order to reduce tax fraud.
Apply the principles of the code of conduct for business taxation and ensure that new tax measures are in conformity with those principles.
Establish and provide adequate means for the operation of a competition authority with full functional independence.
Strengthen the state aid framework and increase transparency, as a first step towards state aid control in line with the requirements of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement.
Implement an effective public procurement regime in line with EU principles, including in relation to remedies. Ensure full transparency of procedures, regardless of the value of the contract concerned, and non-discrimination between Montenegrin and EU suppliers.
Ensure the establishment and functioning of the public procurement agency and review body and upgrade their administrative capacity; provide appropriate training of staff in contracting entities responsible for implementing procurement rules.
Significantly strengthen the level of protection of intellectual property rights, in particular by adopting a comprehensive legal framework on intellectual property rights, including effective enforcement provisions, and by establishing an intellectual property rights office.
Strengthen implementation and enforcement capacity in this field, including in border services, law enforcement agencies and the judiciary.
Formally confirm participation in the main international agreements in the field of intellectual property law.
Strengthen the regulatory and supervisory framework for financial institutions and markets, consistent with current EU practices, in particular concerning the banking sector.
Reinforce cooperation with the home supervisors of foreign banks with significant subsidiaries in Montenegro, including by concluding cooperation agreements.
Strengthen enforcement of financial reporting requirements, in particular for financial institutions and listed companies.
Upgrade the capacity of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare on policy formulation and monitoring, with emphasis on labour market integration of young people, women and vulnerable groups; upgrade performance management of active employment measures implemented by the Montenegrin employment service.
Enhance the work of labour inspectorates to ensure health and safety at work.
Step up efforts to promote quality in the education system and life-long learning.
Continue improving the quality, efficiency and relevance of the higher education system and support its integration into the European Higher Education Area.
Continue implementing the European Charter for Small Enterprises.
Strengthen the investment promotion agency. Improve business advocacy and consultation.
Adopt a law on harmonisation and acceleration of licensing and systems for issuing permits; implement legislation in close cooperation with local government authorities; and, adopt and implement an action plan on the reduction of business barriers.
Accelerate the setting up and implementation of a national guarantee fund for SMEs.
Continue strengthening administrative capacity for agricultural and rural development policy formulation and implementation.
Adopt the food safety law, a law on animal welfare and a new veterinary law and strengthen the veterinary and phytosanitary services, including control and laboratory capacities.
Continue efforts to align legislation with the EU veterinary and phytosanitary acquis including the setting up of an integrated food safety system aiming at avoiding overlapping, and increasing food safety. Prepare a system of animal identification and registration for bovines in line with EU requirements.
Finalise the fisheries strategy and upgrade the capacity of Montenegro to conduct a fisheries policy in line with EU standards, including those concerning international cooperation.
Ensure protection of the geographical indications and designations of origin registered in the Community pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006(1).
Continue approximating Montenegrin legislation to EU legislation and standards, notably environmental protection framework legislation. Develop the administrative capacity to implement and enforce adopted legislation.
Develop an overall environment protection strategy (water, waste, air). Adopt the land use plan; adopt the sustainable development strategy and sectoral strategies (integrated coastal zone management, biodiversity, climate change). Strengthen environmental management administrative capacity.
Continue to align aviation legislation, including air traffic control, with the acquis, in line with the commitments undertaken by signing the European Common Aviation Area Agreement.
Strengthen the civil aviation authority, and appoint an operationally independent aviation accident investigation body, a national supervisory body for the air navigation service provider, and a body responsible for the enforcement of air passenger rights.
Continue implementing the Memorandum of Understanding on the Development of the South East Europe Core Regional Transport Network, including cooperation in the South East Europe Transport Observatory.
Implement the road transport law (including establishment of the relevant implementation structures). Ensure sufficient resources for the maintenance of transport infrastructures and institutions.
Ratify and continue implementing the commitments undertaken in the framework of the signed Energy Community Treaty.
Complete and implement the energy development strategy, and the energy efficiency strategy; strengthen the administrative capacity of the Ministry of Economy in the field of energy.
Put in place a regulatory body and adopt appropriate legislation in the field of nuclear safety and radiation protection.
Ensure law enforcement and transparency in the energy market.
Strengthen the agency for telecommunications to foster competition in the market by applying the relevant legislation, in particular in relation to the introduction of the necessary competitive safeguards in the market.
Improve the administrative capacity of the Ministry of Economy in the area of electronic communications. Take further steps in tariff balancing, further address the terms and conditions of interconnection tariffs, and address the issue of licence fees.
Guarantee the operational independence of the broadcasting authority.
Ensure a smooth transformation of Montenegrin radio and television into a public service provider, and ensure means for its efficient functioning.
Upgrade the public internal financial control strategy with references to short- and medium-term objectives and with corresponding IT system support; enhance internal audit capacity.
Further strengthen the State audit office and provide for the appropriate constitutional guarantees.
Collect and transmit statistical information in compliance with statistical requirements related to the economic, trade, monetary and financial areas, consistent with current EU practices.
Revise and adopt the master plan on statistics with a view to enhancing the quality and broadening the scope of statistics. Reinforce the collection and processing of agriculture statistics in line with EU standards and methodology; implement HS nomenclature 2007.
Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 of 20 March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ L 93, 31.3.2006, p. 12).