Serbian parliament adopts Law on Amnesty

BELGRADE The Serbian parliament adopted 11 bills on Thursday in Belgrade, including the Law on Amnesty; MPs are expected to begin a new session later today. MPs will at the new session debate a draft decision on the election of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Council of Governors and draft decision on the election of an Administration for the Supervision of Financial Institutions director, submitted by the parliamentary Finance Committee. Serbian parliament adopts Law on Amnesty Aside from the Law on Amnesty, the MPs also adopted changes to the Law on Protection of Personal Information, Law on Medicines and Medical Devices and on a draft Law on Migration Management. According to the Law on Amnesty, 3,600 inmates will be released or get reduced sentences if they did not commit serious criminal acts. 130 MPs voted in favor of the bill, 19 against and 12 abstained from voting. Persons who committed most serious crimes and were sentenced to 30 or 40 years in prison are exempted from amnesty. The MPs should today confirm several international agreements, including the contract between Serbia and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on guarantees for the Serbian Railways and a water system improvement project in the northern town of Subotica. They will also decide on an agreement between the Serbian and Italian governments on cooperation in the field of energy and on an agreement with the Georgian government on cooperation and mutual help in customs issues. The MPs should also vote on the Energy Agency’s Statute and on a draft law on providing guarantees to public gas company Srbijagas necessary to take loans worth EUR 190mn from seven banks. (Tanjug, file) Law on migration management adopted The Serbian parliament adopted the Law on migration management on Thursday which expands the jurisdiction of the Commissariat for Refugees and a unique database on migration should be set up which would be available to all government bodies engaged in the sector. A total of 136 MPs voted in favor of the law, 9 were against its adoption and 15 did not vote. The Refugee Commissariat will continue working under the title of Commissariat for Refugees and Migrations as of the day the law enters into force. The Commissariat will propose goals and priorities in terms of migration policy, measures and activities to encourage positive effects of legal migrations and prevention of illegal ones, and it will also be engaged on the measures for integration of individuals who were granted the right to asylum in keeping with the Law on Asylum and reintegration of returnees on grounds of the agreement on readmission. It will also be engaged in the implementation of the measures aimed at improving living conditions for internally displaced persons but it will also report on migration and emigration and draw up and regularly update Serbia's migration profile. The Commissariat will keep a unique register of persons gone missing in the armed conflicts in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the period from 1991 to 1995 and in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija in the period from 1998 to 2000, as well as the register of exhumed, identified and non-identified remains from individual and mass graves. Tanjug

Serbian parliament adopts Law on Amnesty

Aside from the Law on Amnesty, the MPs also adopted changes to the Law on Protection of Personal Information, Law on Medicines and Medical Devices and on a draft Law on Migration Management.

According to the Law on Amnesty, 3,600 inmates will be released or get reduced sentences if they did not commit serious criminal acts. 130 MPs voted in favor of the bill, 19 against and 12 abstained from voting.

Persons who committed most serious crimes and were sentenced to 30 or 40 years in prison are exempted from amnesty.

The MPs should today confirm several international agreements, including the contract between Serbia and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on guarantees for the Serbian Railways and a water system improvement project in the northern town of Subotica.

They will also decide on an agreement between the Serbian and Italian governments on cooperation in the field of energy and on an agreement with the Georgian government on cooperation and mutual help in customs issues.

The MPs should also vote on the Energy Agency’s Statute and on a draft law on providing guarantees to public gas company Srbijagas necessary to take loans worth EUR 190mn from seven banks.

Law on migration management adopted

The Serbian parliament adopted the Law on migration management on Thursday which expands the jurisdiction of the Commissariat for Refugees and a unique database on migration should be set up which would be available to all government bodies engaged in the sector.

A total of 136 MPs voted in favor of the law, 9 were against its adoption and 15 did not vote.

The Refugee Commissariat will continue working under the title of Commissariat for Refugees and Migrations as of the day the law enters into force.

The Commissariat will propose goals and priorities in terms of migration policy, measures and activities to encourage positive effects of legal migrations and prevention of illegal ones, and it will also be engaged on the measures for integration of individuals who were granted the right to asylum in keeping with the Law on Asylum and reintegration of returnees on grounds of the agreement on readmission.

It will also be engaged in the implementation of the measures aimed at improving living conditions for internally displaced persons but it will also report on migration and emigration and draw up and regularly update Serbia's migration profile.

The Commissariat will keep a unique register of persons gone missing in the armed conflicts in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the period from 1991 to 1995 and in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija in the period from 1998 to 2000, as well as the register of exhumed, identified and non-identified remains from individual and mass graves.