At the request of the Government, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, convened the Eleventh Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in 2009, for Thursday, 16 July, starting at 3 p.m.

The Government withdrew their request to hold an extraordinary session on 9 July and forwarded a request to the National Assembly to hold an extraordinary session with a new agenda.

At the Eleventh Extraordinary Session, the National Assembly shall consider the Bill amending and modifying the Public Information Law, the Culture Bill, the Bill on Cooperation with the International Criminal Court, the Bills amending and modifying the Law on Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions and the Law on Organization and Jurisdiction of Government Authorities in Suppression of Organised Crime and the Bill on Execution of Prison Sentence for Criminal Offenses of Organised Crime. The set agenda also includes the Bills amending and modifying the Criminal Procedure Law, the Criminal Code, the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, as well as the Bills on the Bases of the System of Education and Upbringing and on Textbooks and Other Teaching Aids.

The National Assembly shall also consider the Bills on Zoning and Construction, on State Survey and Land Registry , on Social Housing, on the Environmental Protection Fund, on Public Health, on Blood Transfusion, on Organ Transplantation, on Cell and Tissue Transplantation and on Infertility Treatments by Bio-medical Aided Fertilisation.

It will also consider the Bill on National Councils of National Minorities, the Bills on the Confirmation of the Financial Contract between the Republic of Serbia and the European Investment Bank and the National Bank of Serbia “Apex Loans for small and medium-sized enterprises”, the Confirmation of the Loan Agreement (additional financing for the health system project) between the Republic of Serbia and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Bill on the Debt Contract between the Republic of Serbia and Alpha Bank Serbia a.d., Vojvodjanska Banka a.d. Novi Sad and Piraeus Bank a.d. Belgrade.

The session will be held at the House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 13 Nikola Pasic Square.