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Three-day seminar for magistrates starts on Mount Kopaonik

Kopaonik, 20 October 2004

A three-day seminar for magistrates, organised by the Serbian Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with more than 500 magistrates participants, started on Mount Kopaonik yesterday.

The participants will examine a draft law on offences, which according to Deputy Minister of Justice Branislav Bjelica, was harmonised with the legislation of the European Union (EU).

Bjelica said that Serbia will join the European integration process through application of this law. He went on to say that according to the draft law on offences, the amendments to the Law on organisation of courts and the Law on judges, the magistrates’ courts will be established as special courts in the Serbian judiciary.

By adopting a new law, the legislation of the Republic of Serbia will be harmonised with the European Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

An agreement between the Ministry of Justice and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will be signed on capacity building of magistrates’ courts.

Bjelica explained that judicial trainings were completely neglected in the Serbian judiciary and added that $1.1 million will be allocated for the project that will be carried out in cooperation with UNDP in the next two years.