The equipment was officially handed over yesterday at a ceremony attended by director of the USAID Economic Growth Office Jim Stein and Assistant Minister of Justice for Information Technology Dejan Pasic.
During implementation of the project, whose total worth is estimated at $13.7 million, state-of-the-art IT equipment and software were provided for commercial courts in Serbia – over 300 computers, 300 printers and 39 servers, specifies the statement.
As part of the project, software was developed for automatic tracking of statistical data from court cases, which was installed in all commercial courts in Serbia, as well as a system for automatic case management.
The system has so far been put into use in Novi Sad, Belgrade, Sremska Mitrovica, Leskovac and Zajecar, and by year’s end it will be installed in the remaining 11 commercial courts in Serbia.
As the project is coming to an end, the Ministry of Justice will take charge of the equipment and its maintenance and repair, says USAID in a statement.
The aim of the project, which began in 2005 and will last until the end of 2008, is to help commercial courts in Serbia to improve capacities and become more efficient so that the legal system will be able to respond to the demands of a modern market economy.