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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Working group for public administration reform established

Belgrade, 25 June 2009

Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Milan Markovic stated that at its session today the government set up the working group which will be in charge of public administration reform.

Milan Markovic

At a press conference following the government session, Markovic said that apart from him the working group consists of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic, Minister for the National Investment Plan Kalanovic and their associates.

At the first meeting of the working group it was agreed that some laws will be altered in order to help reduce the number of employees in public administration and local self-governments, he said.

The Minister specified that the working group has established different criteria for people working in public administration and those employed in local self-governments.

Markovic recalled that the government today adopted a bill on the electoral roll, which will help remove all irregularities during elections.

This law will enable the establishment of the unique electoral roll and database, stressed the Minister and voiced his hope that it would occur in the next three years at the latest.

He said that elections held up until now were free of irregularities, but questions were raised concerning the number of registered voters, and this law will create the same standards as in developed democracies.

Markovic said that the Serbian government is completely ready for the possible consequences of H1N1 cases in Serbia.

He said that Health Minister Tomica Milosavljevic presented information about the situation at today’s session and the government approved the report, adding that it was concluded that health services in Serbia are completely prepared to implement measures in the case of an epidemic.

Nebojsa Bradic

Minister of Culture Nebojsa Bradic said that the first set of measures for helping the media in Serbia deal with the effects of the global economic crisis has been approved and a sum of RSD 60 million will be set aside for co-financing media related projects.

He said that the sum will be set aside from current budget reserves and distributed by the Ministry of Culture’s media sector for co-financing projects.

Bradic explained that the next set of measures will follow soon which will help improve the performance and image of the media and will also address the many issues and problems in the media sector.