The Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Predrag Markovic, today signed the 200^th law passed by the present convocation of the National Assembly.

Mr Markovic thanked all deputies for making the National Assembly efficient, and for contributing to the passage of the largest number of laws in the history of Serbian parliamentarianism, and presented to the Assembly two books given to him as personal gifts – Protocols of the National Assembly sitting in Nis in 1878-79 and Protocols of the National Assembly sitting in Kragujevac in 1871 – with the wish that they should remain in the Chairman’s office.

After voting ended on items from the agenda of the Seventh Session of the Second Regular Sitting of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in 2005, Mr Markovic signed, in front of journalists, the Innovations Act, the Science and Research Act, the Serbian Encyclopaedia Act and the Act on the Dictionary of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which is the 200^th law passed by the present convocation of the National Assembly. Mr Markovic also signed the Decision Establishing the National Corruption Suppression Strategy and the Decision on the Dismissal of Judicial Officials.