The following chapters were opened at today's accession conference: Chapter 3 - Right of Establishment and Freedom to Provide Services, Chapter 6 - Company Law, Chapter 9 - Financial Services, Chapter 10 - Information Society and Media, Chapter 18 – Statistics, and Chapter 32 - Financial Control. Negotiations in the listed chapters will be allowed to be closed after the fulfilment of the closing benchmark.
Four chapters have been confirmed at the ministerial level at the conference: Chapter 7 - Intellectual Property Law, Chapter 17 - Economic and Monetary Union, Chapter 29 - Customs Union, Chapter 20 - Enterprise and Industrial Policy, which have been previously opened at the accession conference at the deputy head of negotiations delegation level or head negotiator level.
The Republic of Croatia has until now opened twelve negotiations chapters, out of which two have been temporarily closed.