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National Judicial Reform Strategy

The National Judicial Reform Strategy was adopted at the Serbian National Assembly session of 25 May 2006. Its basic objective is to restore public trust in the judicial system of the Republic of Serbia by establishing the rule of law and legal certainty. The Strategy relies on four key principles: judicial independence, transparency, accountability and efficiency.

The responsibility for the implementation of the goals and activities envisaged in the Judicial Reform Strategy and Action Plan will be entrusted to the 10 member Strategy Implementation Commission.

The Commission membership will include representatives of all relevant judicial institutions. The Ministry of Justice representative will be nominated by the Minister, the Supreme Court representative will be nominated by the Supreme Court President, the representative of the National Assembly Judiciary Committee will be nominated by the Committee Chairman, the Public Prosecutor's Office representative will be nominated by the Republic Prosecutor, the Judges Association representative will be nominated by the Managing Board, the Prosecutor's Association will be nominated by the Managing Board, the representative of the Bar will be nominated by the Managing Board of the Bar Association of Serbia, the representative of the Judicial Training Centre will be nominated by the Managing Board, the representative of Belgrade University Law Faculty will be nominated by the Dean. Apart from the representatives of the judiciary institutions, the Ministry of Finance will have one representative in the Commission to serve as a link and guarantor of the sustainability of the Strategy implementation in accordance with the budgetary capacity of the Republic of Serbia.

Members of the Commission were elected by the Government of Serbia on June 22nd 2006. On the Government Session held on December 27th 2007 composition of the Commission was updated, which enabled further functioning of this body and implementation of the Strategy goals. 


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