Public Administration

Commissioner: Government fails to implement decisions

BELGRADE -- Rodoljub Šabić has said that the institution he heads has put into procedure 93 percent of requests for information received in 2013.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic has said that the institution has put into procedure 93 percent of the requests for information in 2013, but in none of these cases had the Serbian government ensured implementation of the Commissioner's decisions or had the offenders prosecuted.

BUCHAREST - Europe is aware that more attention should be paid to economic growth and job creation in South East Europe, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said in Bucharest on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Representatives of the European Investment Bank (EIB) said in the talks with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki that EIB is ready to redirect a part of the funds from loans for various projects that are already in the procedure to the purposes of recovery of flooded areas.

BELGRADE - The Law on Attorney’s Office, adopted by the Serbian parliament on Friday, introduces a number of new provisions and provides for functional autonomy of this executive body to launch a process to protect the state’s interests on its own.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said Monday that the main change proposed by the bill on amendments to the Law on National Councils of National Minorities is for the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) to be in charge of conducting council elections and not the Ministry, as was the case so far.

BELGRADE – The Serbian parliament has so far fully constituted 12 of a total of 19 of its committees in the new session.

One committee has still got no chair, one does not have deputy chair, and four committees currently have neither chair nor deputy chiar.

BELGRADE - Kori Udovicki, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, conferred on Wednesday with Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport on activities and support of the European Union to the reform of public administration in Serbia.

BELGRADE, April 29 (Tanjug) - After the election of a new government, new ministers took office from their predecessors in almost all departments on Monday.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic took over from Ivica Dacic.

Dacic took over from Ivan Mrkic as foreign minister.

New Serbian government holds first session

BELGRADE -- The new government of Serbia held its first session on Monday in Belgrade, adopting a procedural decision to withdraw bills sent by the previous cabinet.

The ministers also adopted a conclusion to hold future regular government sessions on Thursdays at 13:00 CET.