Template:Stabilisation and Association Process
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| Event | Croatia | FYROM | Albania | Montenegro 1 | Serbia 2 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244)3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAA negotiations start | 24.11.2000 | 5.4.2000 | 31.1.2003 | 10.10.2005 | 10.10.2005 | 25.11.2005 | (2008) |
| SAA initialled | 14.5.2001 | 24.11.2000 | 28.2.2006 | 15.3.2007 | 7.11.2007 | 4.12.2007 | (2008) |
| SAA signature | 29.10.2001 | 9.4.2001 | 12.6.2006 | 15.10.2007 | 29.4.2008 | (2008) | (2008) |
| Ratification by: | |||||||
| SAP state | 30.1.2002 | 27.4.2001 | 9.11.2006 | 13.11.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| European Communities | 21.12.2004 | 25.2.2004 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Austria | 15.3.2002 | 6.9.2002 | 21.5.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Belgium | 17.12.2003 | 29.12.2003 | 22.3.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Bulgaria | entered the EU later | 30.5.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | ||
| Cyprus | entered the EU later | 30.5.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Czech Republic | entered the EU later | 7.5.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Germany | 18.10.2002 | 20.6.2002 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Denmark | 8.5.2002 | 10.4.2002 | 24.4.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Estonia | entered the EU later | 17.10.2007 | 22.11.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Spain | 4.10.2002 | 4.10.2002 | 3.5.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| France | 4.6.2003 | 4.6.2003 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| United Kingdom | 3.9.2004 | 17.12.2002 | 16.10.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Greece | 27.8.2003 | 27.8.2003 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Hungary | entered the EU later | 23.4.2007 | 14.5.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Italy | 6.10.2004 | 30.10.2003 | 7.1.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Ireland | 6.5.2002 | 6.5.2002 | 11.6.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Lithuania | entered the EU later | 17.5.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Luxembourg | 1.8.2003 | 28.7.2003 | 4.7.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Latvia | entered the EU later | 19.12.2006 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Malta | entered the EU later | 21.4.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Netherlands | 30.4.2004 | 9.9.2002 | 10.12.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Portugal | 14.7.2003 | 14.7.2003 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Poland | entered the EU later | 14.4.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Romania | entered the EU later | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | ||
| Sweden | 27.3.2003 | 25.6.2002 | 21.3.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Finland | 6.1.2004 | 6.1.2004 | 29.11.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
| Slovenia | entered the EU later | 18.1.2007 | 7.2.2008 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| Slovakia | entered the EU later | 20.7.2007 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | |
| SAA entry into force | 1.2.2005 | 1.4.2004 | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) | (2008) |
(brackets): earliest possible date
1 For Montenegro, negotiations started in November 2005 while a part of Serbia and Montenegro. Separate technical negotiations were conducted regarding issues sub-state organizational competency. Mandate for direct negotiations with Montenegro established in July 2006. Direct negotiations were initiated on 26 September 2006 and concluded on 1 December 2006.[1]
2 For Serbia, negotiations started in November 2005 (as part of SiM, modified mandate from July 2006), implementation of the treaty awaiting the arrest of Ratko Mladić.
3 For Kosovo, a partially recognized breakaway province of Serbia, negotiations on a Stabilisation Tracking Mechanism began in 2003 and are still ongoing. The EU is still divided on how exactly to continue the SAP with Kosovo, as some of its members remain opposed to Kosovo's independence.
