At the sitting held on 5 May, the Legislative Committee considered, in principle, the Bills on Preventing Harassment at Work; on Volunteer Work; amending and modifying the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance; amending and modifying the Law on Decorations of the Republic of Serbia; amending and modifying the Law on the State Audit Institution; on the Confirmation of the Financial Agreement (Research and development in the public sector) between the Republic of Serbia and the European Investment Bank; on the Confirmation of the Donation Agreement (Relief for infrastructure projects for the local framework) part of IPA 2008 multi-beneficiary programme between the European Investment Bank and the Republic of Serbia and the City of Belgrade; on the Confirmation of the Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Serbia and EFTA States; on the Confirmation of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention) of 5 October 1973, with amendments to Article 63 of the European Patent Convention of 17 December 1991 and as amended on 29 November 2000; on the Confirmation of the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, the Rulebook on the Implementation of the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks and the Resolution by the Diplomatic Conference Supplementary to the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks and the Rulebook on the Implementation of the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks; on the Confirmation of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Institutional Framework of the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Initiative for South-Eastern Europe and on the Confirmation of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Government of the Republic of Croatia on inland waterways navigation and technical maintenance.

Representatives of the submitters briefly outlined the Bills to the Committee members, and the Committee estimated that all the Bills adhere to the Constitution and legal system of the Republic of Serbia.

Deputy Vjerica Radeta reserved her opinion to all the Bills, while deputy Petar Jojic reserved his opinion to the Bills on Preventing Harassment at Work; on Volunteer Work; amending and modifying the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance; amending and modifying the Law on Decorations of the Republic of Serbia; amending and modifying the Law on the State Audit Institution; on the Confirmation of the Financial Agreement (Research and development in the public sector) between the Republic of Serbia and the European Investment Bank; on the Confirmation of the Donation Agreement (Relief for infrastructure projects for the local framework) part of IPA 2008 multi-beneficiary programme between the European Investment Bank and the Republic of Serbia and the City of Belgrade; on the Confirmation of the Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Serbia and EFTA States and on the Confirmation of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention) of 5 October 1973, with amendments to Article 63 of the European Patent Convention of 17 December 1991 and as amended on 29 November 2000.

The sitting was chaired by Vlatko Ratkovic, Committee Chairman.