At the Assembly of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities, Djukic Dejanovic said that the Serbian Assembly and the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities would continue to work together, primarily on controlling the implementation of laws relating to this sphere, and added that the activities aimed at developing local self-governments would be intensified in the coming years. She said that the success of the overall reform on the local level greatly depends on adequately articulating the needs and representing the interests of local self-governments at the bodies of central government, a process in which the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities plays an important role.

In order to strengthen the citizens’ role, the Serbian Assembly, among other things, adopted a set of laws predominately applied in local self-government, stressed the Speaker.

“Specifically this year, by adopting the amendments and modifications to the Law on Financing of Local Self-Government, we have raised the income of local self-governments, stimulated entrepreneurship and employment on the level of municipalities, expecting it all to reflect positively on urban development. With the Law on Public Property we have brought our country on par with countries which ensure the local governments’ full ownership over the property they use and enabled the transfer of a significant part of the public property to towns and municipalities. The Law on Public-Private Partnership and Concessions provides the legal framework for the local governments’ further active efforts on cooperation projects with the private sector and improvement of the services they provide to the citizens”.