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27 November 2014 Participants of the workshop on the “Preparation of the Roadmap to regulatory reform of the legislative procedure and quality of legislative drafting in the Republic of Serbia”
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues Organises Sixth Workshop
The Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, organised the sixth workshop on the “Preparation of the Roadmap to regulatory reform of the legislative procedure and quality of legislative drafting in the Republic of Serbia”, on 26 and 27 November 2014.
The Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues, Dr Aleksandar Martinovic, said that the Committee is the focal point of the legislative knowledge and experience essential for the quality of the regulations passed by the National Assembly. Martinovic said that cooperation between the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues and ODIHR and the OSCE Mission to Serbia, launched in 2011 with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, is very important for the improvement of the legislative procedure and quality of legislative drafting in Serbia
Alice Thomas, Chief of OSCE/ODIHR's Legislative Support Unit, said that the purpose of the workshop is to discuss possible solutions and ways to improve the legislative procedure and quality of legislative drafting, as well as present the international standards achieved and best practice examples.
In the course of the two-day workshop, the participants discussed three topics: legislative consolidation and harmonisation, monitoring legislative implementation and evaluation, and participation of the public in the legislative process. ODIHR experts Prof. John Bates and Dr Melanie Sully presented the comparative legal experience and the international standards achieved in these spheres, while the situation in Serbia was presented by Assistant Director of the Republic Legislation Secretariat Ranka Vujovic, Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues Dr Aleksandar Martinovic and Transparency Serbia Programme Director Nemanja Nenadic.
Following the two-day workshop the participants adopted the draft Roadmap to regulatory reform of the legislative procedure and quality of legislative drafting in the Republic of Serbia.
Activities
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11.00 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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11.00 - sitting of the of the Committee on Education, Science, Technological Development and the Information Society (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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11.00 - judges elected to judicial office for the first time take the oath of office before the National Assembly Speaker (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)
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11.30 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Ukrainian Ambassador (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street)
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12.00 - opening of the exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of Mileva Maric Einstein (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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12.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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13.00 - sitting of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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17.00 - sitting of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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17.05 - National Assembly Deputy Speaker at the AEPA Association if Lawyers Conference: NO MORE SILENCE – ME AGAIN (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)