Brussels, 21/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - Subject to Coreper's formal approval of the EU's position on 28 March, accession negotiations with Turkey and Croatia will continue on 29 March at a deputy level. This will be the first meeting with Turkey since suspension of accession negotiations on the 8 chapters last December (EUROPE 9326). Negotiations will open on chapter 20, “industrial and enterprise policy”. On the other hand, work towards opening another chapter (“financial control”), are not expected to be completed by 29 March. This means that this chapter will undoubtedly be pending when the ministerial negotiating session opens in June, as will the two other chapters on which Ankara has been invited to present its negotiating position: “statistics” and “economic and monetary union”. However, in compliance with December's decision, no chapter will be able to be concluded until Ankara has entirely implemented the protocol on extending the EU/Turkey customs union to new member states, including Cyprus. Croatia is expected to be able to open chapter 7, “intellectual property”, on 29 March. (hb)