The Committee on Labour, Ex-Servicemen’s and Social Issues held its seventh sitting on 12 November. The sitting was chaired by the Committee Chairman Meho Omerovic and attended, in addition to the Committee members, by the Chairpersons of the Poverty Reduction Committee and the Committee on Health and the Family, Bojan Milovanovic and Snezana Stojanovic-Plavsic.

Ljiljana Lucic, State Secretary of Social Protection at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, and Alexandra Jovic, manager of the Team of the Vice-President of the Government for the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy, and associates, presented to the Committee members the Second Report on the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy focusing on the priorities in the area of social policy. The State Secretary stressed that the drafting of a new Law on Social Protection will be the priority in 2008, as well as carrying out basic strategic activities (legislative regulations, decentralisation of the social protection system, reform of material allotments, ensuring quality services in social protection) and social protection goals.