The South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly was inaugurated on 10 May 2014 and is the fruit of institutionalisation of the long-standing parliamentary cooperation between the 12 participating countries of the South East Europe Cooperation Process.

The South East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP) was launched in 1996 with the aim to transform South-East Europe into a region of stability, security and cooperation in line with European integration trends, by promoting inter-dialogue and cooperation at all levels and in all areas of common interest. The following twelve countries take part in the work of the Cooperation Process as full members: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. The Republic of Serbia was included into the full scope of activities of the SEECP at the Skopje Summit in October 2000.

The SEECP Parliamentary Dimension was launched at the conference of Parliament Speakers in Athens, 15-16 October 1997, with the rising need for a more intense cooperation between the parliaments as a logical continuation of the existing cooperation at the governmental/ministerial level. Before the inauguration of the Parliamentary Assembly, the SEECP Parliamentary Dimension functioned at the level of national coordinator meetings, SEECP Parliamentary Dimension Working Group, annual conference of Parliament Speakers of SEECP participating countries, as well as international conferences on topics of interest for the SEE region.

The National Assembly’s standing delegation has four members and four substitute members, while the National Assembly Speaker is also the head of the delegation. The plenary session takes place once a year at the parliament chairing the SEECP, while the meetings of the three general committees take place once a year at the parliament the elected general committee chairperson belongs to. The Regional Secretariat for Parliamentary Cooperation with headquarters in Sofia, Regional Secretariat for Cooperation with headquarters in Sarajevo and the network of national coordinators offer operational support.

The SEECP fundamental document is the Charter on Good Neighbourly Relations, Stability, Security and Cooperation in South East Europe, adopted in Bucharest in 2000.

The founding document of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly is the Declaration on the inauguration of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, adopted on 10 May 2014 in Bucharest.

Latest activities

• The National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly took part in the SEECP PA plenary session on 21 - 22 June 2019 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The delegation comprised Dr Sci.med Darko Laketic and Marko Parezanovic.
  
  
• Marko Parezanovic, substitute member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA General Committee on Economy, Infrastructure and Energy, on 16 - 17 June 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.
  
  
• Dr Sci.med Darko Laketic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the SEECP PA General Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Security Cooperation on 10 - 11 May 2019 in Skopje.
  
  
• The National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly headed by National Assembly Speaker Maja Gojkovic took part in the SEECP PA 5th plenary session on 13 – 14 April 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  
  
• Olena Papuga, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the South East Europe Cooperation Process, took part in the meeting of the General Committee on Social Development, Education, Research and Science on 8 and 9 April, in Tirana, Albania.
  
  
  
• Dr Vesna Rakonjac, substitute member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the SEECP PA, took part in the international conference “South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly – Regional Synergies, Strategic Cooperation and Parliamentary Diplomacy” and the meeting of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly Standing Committee, on 6 and 7 November 2015, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
  
  
  
• The members of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly (SEECP PA), Katarina Rakic, Srdjan Kruzevic and Olena Papuga, took part in the 2nd Plenary Session of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, on 22 and 23 May 2015, in Tirana, Albania.
  
  
• At the meeting of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly General Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Security Cooperation held on 22 May 2015, by consensus of all the members, Katarina Rakic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation, was elected Chair for the next year.
  
  
  
• Katarina Rakic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the second meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group and the meeting of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly Standing Committee, held on 17 and 18 April 2015, in Tirana, as part of Albania’s chairmanship of the organisation. At the meeting, the delegations discussed the proposed Secretariat HQs and budget of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, and the agenda for the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly Plenary Session, scheduled for 22 and 23 May, in Tirana.
  
  
  
• Srdjan Kruzevic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the organisation’s General Committee on Economy, Infrastructure and Energy, on 20 and 21 March, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
  
  
• Olena Papuga, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the organisation’s General Committee on Social Development, Education, Research and Science, on 26 and 27 February 2015, in Bucharest, Romania.
  
  
• Katarina Rakic, member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, took part in the meeting of the General Committee on Justice Home Affairs and Security Cooperation on 9 and 10 February 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey.
  
  
• National Assembly Deputy Speaker and member of the Ad hoc Working Group at the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly Gordana Comic took part in the Ad hoc Working Group meeting, 7-9 November 2014, in Tirana, as part of Albania’s chairmanship of the SEECP. The meeting tackled the open issues of secretariat and budget in order to finalise the process of institualisation of the parliamentary cooperation within the newly-established SEECP Parliamentary Assembly.

• National Assembly Deputy Speaker Veroljub Arsic took part in the Inaugural Session of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly held in Bucharest, as part of Romania’s chairmanship of the organisation, 9-11 May 2014. The adoption of the Declaration on the inauguration of the SEECP Parliamentary Assembly, Rules of Procedure and 2014-2015 Annual Activity Plan officially completed the process of institutionalizing the parliamentary cooperation of the 12 SEECP participating states. The open issues of the secretariat and budget will be discussed by an ad hoc Working Group set up by the decision of the SEECP participating countries’ parliament speakers and deputy speakers.