Keepin touch

Whether you have a question, comment, suggestion or any problem in the purview of the government, send us your message and we will try to respond as soon as possible. If your problem is not in our purview, we will forward your message to the relevant institution.

The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Government adopts Bill on amnesty for military service

Belgrade, 15 December 2005

The Serbian government adopted at its session today the Bill on amnesty in regards to military service and forwarded it to the parliament for adoption, as well as the Bill on special authorisations for effective protection of the right to intellectual property.

Government adopts Bill on amnesty for military service

The government also adopted the Bill on Serbia's counter guarantees for the state union of Serbia-Montenegro concerning the loan given by the European Investment Bank for financing the project for improving the state of schools in Serbia.

It also passed a Decree on the types of pollution, criteria for determining the fine for polluting the environment, and the amount of fines and the way they will be collected. A Decree on the criteria and conditions for refunding or decreasing the fine for environmental pollution was also adopted.

The government adopted the changes to the Decree on the procedure for issuing and verifying the documentation accompanying export and import products. The authority over issuing this documentation has not been specified.

It also adopted the changes to the Decree on the criteria for determining the price of medications, and the list of medicines will be on the government's agenda next week.

A Decree was also passed on the changes to the Decree on the price of oil derivatives. Changes in the highest price of basic oil derivatives will be performed when the total price of basic derivatives changes by more than 1.5 percent in comparison with the total price of oil, which is the basis for determining the existing highest production prices, and that if more than 15 days passed since the last price change.

The government passed a decision on a temporary increase of oil derivatives excise in line with the Law on Excise. For all types of motor oil excise is 27.19 dinars per litre, and for all types of diesel oil 14.04 dinars per litre.

The government gave consent to the Strategy for Broadcasting Development in Serbia by 2013, brought by the Council of the Serbian Broadcasting Agency.

It also gave consent to the working schedule for 2005 of the fund for clinical and medical treatment of patients with AIDS or HIV virus.

The government adopted the Information on the realisation of the project themed "Serbia's Sustained Development Strategy".

It also adopted the Information on the results of the programme "Production Systems Development".

The government adopted the Information on the necessity of providing additional funds from privatisation revenues for supporting the economy by loans through the Serbian Development Fund.

The government gave consent to the decision on establishing cooperation between the Leskovac municipality and the Chinese town of Lanzhou in the Gansu Province.

The government decided on the distribution of funds from the current budgetary reserves, out of which three million dinars will be used to finance the participation of the film "Winter's Night Dream" by Goran Paskaljevic in the Annual Academy Awards (“the Oscars”), and six million dinars for financing the production of the film "Optimists" by the same director.