Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Bozidar Djelic has said that the government adopted Thursday the second quarterly report on the implementation of the Action Plan to complete the recommendations by the European Commission.

He specified that 73 percent of what had been planned to be done by June had been completed.

Almost three quarters of the Action Plan's 96 points, meant to help Serbia gain the EU candidate status faster, have been completed, he told Tanjug.

Most of the items that were supposed to be completed by the end of June have been addressed, but there is more work to do during the summer, he added.

"This means we will continue at the same good pace, but we have a deadline until September 10 to finish everything we set out to do," Djelic remarked.

The laws on public property and property restitution still need to be adopted and it has to be done by the deadline if Serbia is to get the EU candidate status and the start date for the accession negotiations by the end of the year.

The laws on election of parliament members and political activity funding have been adopted as well, said Djelic, adding that there had also been progress in the judiciary reform and that the work on creating government accreditation bodies and independent regulatory bodies had also been completed. The government and parliament will have to work during the summer break because of all the work that still needs to be done, he stated.

"It is obvious we have made progress, but a lot more still remains to be done, which is why it is important to continue the efforts seen in the past three months," said the deputy prime minister.

The goal is to complete the Action Plan, continue working with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and be constructive in the talks with Pristina, he explained.

"It is up to us to complete our plans and provide additional arguments in August and early September that the European Commission would incorporate in its final opinion due October 12," he concluded.