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Proposal for amendments to Law on Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions adopted

Belgrade, 11 April 2019

The government adopted the Bill on amendments to the Law on the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions at today's session.

Although the legal framework for the enforcement of criminal sanctions is largely in line with European standards, in the meantime there has been a need to harmonise the activities prescribed by the Action Plan for Chapter 23.

Amendments to the Law extend to the competencies of judges for the enforcement of criminal sanctions and are adapted to the needs of our legal system.

Also, new, alternative measures that change the way of enforcement of imprisonment are prescribed.

The new measures stipulate that the sentence of imprisonment up to one year is executed in the premises where the convicted person lives (house prison), and that the convicts serving their sentence in the semi-opened or open department of the institution can be sent to work outside these institutions.

Their working engagement will contribute to easier and more efficient engagement in society after serving a prison sentence.

The amendment of the law provides for early release when further execution of the sentence is considered inhuman - in case of serious illness, disability or age.

At today's meeting, the government gave its consent to allocate funds to Republika Srpska in the amount of €9.3 million for the implementation of the initiated projects under the mechanism of cooperation of the Agreement on the establishment of special parallel relations between the Republic of Serbia and Republika Srpska.

Also, consent was given for the Republic Directorate for Commodity Reserves to write off the debt to physical persons – holders of family agricultural households, created after the implementation of the Decree on the Sale of Mineral Fertilizers, in the amount of RSD 90,894,655.

In order to improve bilateral cooperation between Serbia and Hungary, a conclusion was adopted to approve the text of the Declaration of Intent on the Improvement of Infrastructure Links between the Republic of Serbia and Hungary.

At the meeting, the basis for negotiations and conclusion of the declaration of intent and cooperation between the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Hungary was established.

The basis for concluding an agreement between the government of the Republic of Serbia and the government of Hungary on the mutual recognition of public documents on the level of education issued in Serbia and Hungary was also adopted.