Parliamentary Insider for December 2018 brings monthly analyses of the work of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, including law summaries and key novelties introduced by the adopted laws, that are, for the first time, accessible in English. December is the month in which parliamentary statistics hit its peaks – with the largest amounts of merged items (62) at the parliamentary agenda for the entire 11th convocation – but the Open Parliament has also recorded a significant increase of the number of crucial pieces – new laws and amendments to laws – adopted by urgent procedure. Parliamentary year may have come to an end, but the new year may bring further decline in the quality of parliamentarism if the recorded practice continues.
The CRTA election observation mission will observe the election day in Lucani on Sunday, 16th of December. CRTA observers will be deployed at all 43 polling stations in Lucani, while mobile teams will monitor developments outside of polling stations.
The electoral atmosphere in the municipalities of Lučani, Kula, Kladovo and Doljevac, where local elections shall be held on Sunday, are characterised primarily by public officials’ campaigning. In all four municipalities, an intense presence of public officials was noted – from ministers to directors of services and public companies – accompanied by the abuse of public resources. These are the main findings of the CRTA observation mission whose observers monitor the election campaign on the spot.
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In cooperation with partners from the regional network NGO “ActionSEE”, the Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) prepared the index of openness of institutions in which we analyze a level of transparency, openness and accountability of the local self-government in the Western Balkans region in 2017.
In cooperation with partners from the regional network NGO “ActionSEE”, the Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) prepared the index of openness of institutions in which we analyze a level of transparency, openness and accountability of the judiciary in the Western Balkans region in 2017.
The current Commissioner’s mandate is about to expire. Having in mind that the new Law on Personal Data Protection shall come into force in August 2019, and that the reform of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance is underway, it is extremely important that the new Commissioner be appointed without delay, through a transparent procedure in accordance with the Law and that this function be attributed to the best candidate.
The Anti-Corruption Agency imposed a warning measure to Andreja Mladenović because he conducted a public officials’ campaign and abused his position of a Deputy Mayor for promotion of the election list where he was a candidate. The Agency submitted to the competent Misdemeanour Court in Mladenovac a request for initiation of misdemeanour proceedings against Andreja Mladenović.
More than 60 civil society organisations, media, business, professional and scientific communities’ representatives urged the competent Committee for Culture and Information of the Assembly to select the new Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection in a completely open and transparent process, in accordance with the Law.
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