Croatia's Parliament on Friday began a session with a discussion on the draft act on the ratification of Croatia's Treaty of Accession to the European Union.
The ratification of the document is the only item on today's agenda.
In attendance are Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, government ministers and foreign diplomats in Croatia.
Opening today's session, Sabor Speaker Boris Sprem said that the requirement for the ratification of the accession treaty in the Croatian parliament were met after the Constitutional Court recently established that the EU accession referendum at which the Croatians voted for the country's membership in the EU bloc had been conducted in line with law.
The treaty, signed in Brussels on 9 December 2011, has to be ratified by 27 EU member-states until 1 July 2013 when Croatia is due to join the bloc.
So far, five countries have done so: Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy and Malta.
