After the government's task force held its first meeting earlier in the day to discuss the remaining ten obligations in the run-up to the country's entry into the European Union, Minister Pusic said that the meeting revolved around the finalisation of those tasks in accordance with an action plan prepared by her ministry.

Pusic said that there were concrete time-frames and concrete measures to be undertaken.

"I assure you that we are focused on the finalisation of all obligations and that Prime Minister  Zoran Milanovic set that as our priority and he is monitoring the performance of all ministries and ministers in charge of fulfilling those requirements. I believe that we will be completely ready by 31 January," Pusic said.

"We expect the third, final monitoring report to be prepared (by the European Commission) by the end of March. Based on that report, it is likely that the ratification of (Croatia-EU treaty) will remain in some three countries... We plan to complete eight out of those 10 tasks before the end of this year and to complete the remaining two or three tasks during January and also to carry out some other tasks which have not been mentioned among those ten but that are important for our functioning once we become an EU member, Pusic said.

Asked by reporters to cite the tasks scheduled for next year, Pusic said that they referred to the completion of the construction of border crossings at the entrance and the exit of the only Bosnian coastal town of Neum, specialised border crossings and one of the three topics pertaining to the shipbuilding industry as well as a portion of the legislation on overhauling the country's judiciary.