National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia / Activities / Activity details
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Forty-Second Sitting of the European Integrations Committee
At the sitting held on 7 June, the European Integrations Committee considered, in principle, the Bill on Financing Political Activities.
Elaborating the Bill, the representative of the Ministry of Justice pointed out that its adoption was envisaged in the National Programme for Integration of Serbia with the European Union and the Government’s Action Plan aimed at gaining candidacy status more quickly and is one of the prerequisites for Serbia’s EU accession.
The Committee members pointed out that, considering its importance, the Bill should have been passed sooner, two years ago when the Law on Political Parties was passed. It was also said that in the drafting of the Bill the recommendations of the Council of Europe body dealing with the fight against corruption and supervision of the funding of political parties (GRECO) were disregarded.
In the debate, it was also said that all the political parties could have taken part in the drafting of the Bill, not only the parties of the ruling coalition, but they failed to use the opportunity.
By a majority of votes, the Committee members accepted the Bill on Financing Political Activities, in principle.
The sitting was chaired by Laszlo Varga, Committee Chairman.
Committees related to this activity
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9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Education, Science, Technological Development and the Information Society (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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9.30 - meeting of highest parliamentary officials of EU candidate countries (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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9.30 - sitting of the Committee on Labour, Social Issues, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)
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after the meeting – press conference of the parliamentary officials of EU candidate countries (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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10.30 - sitting of the Environmental Protection Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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11.00 - sitting of the Committee on Labour, Social Issues, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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11.30 - sitting of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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12.30 - sitting of the of the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)