The fine was imposed because the ministry did not comply with the commissioner’s decision in May this year, when he ordered the ministry to provide BIRN Serbia with documentation on Saric’s extradition. The commissioner ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay a fine of 20,000 dinars, as well as to deliver the requested information to BIRN Serbia, noting that failure to do so would result in it having to pay an additional 180,000 dinars.
Author birnEU Posted on DecemCategories News and Events, Uncategorized Tags Serbia Court and Ministry Fined for Obstructing BIRN Serbia The aim of the Participatory Budgeting project in the 10 local communities is to introduce the practice of public participation in the decision-making process on local budgets. The project includes ten municipalities – Sombor, Knjazevac, Trstenik, Pancevo, Zrenjanin, Pirot, Ruma, Sabac, Sremska Mitrovica and Vracar. Prior to the adoption of the budget, all the municipalities also held local budget forums where local residents, representatives of the business community and the media, as well as citizens’ associations discussed the 2016 budget. Some will be setting up gyms in the open air, others constructing lakes, erecting fountains in public places, building playgrounds and much more. Voting took place from November 9 to December 15 2015, after which it was decided which projects would be put into practice.Įach municipality selected one or more projects to finance from their budgets. Local people had a chance to nominate projects that they thought would best advance their community, after which the Commission in each municipality selected the best.
Ten municipalities taking part in the Participatory Budgeting project have assigned part of their 2016 budget for financing projects that were chosen as the best among the many proposed. Author birnEU Posted on FebruCategories News and Events, Uncategorized Tags Serbia Citizens Choose Favourite Projects in Participatory Budgeting The Alternative Report was prepared by BIRN Serbia, the Belgrade Center for Security Policy and the Association of Prosecutors of Serbia as part of the project “Strengthening of External Oversight in the Implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy”. “There were no actors from civil society in the articles who could contribute to a more complete presentation of the theme to the public, especially because critical notes are coming from this part of society,” explained Maksic.
The average report published in the print media was short and factual, relying on officials and their agenda, and mostly positive when it came to anti-corruption measures, she said. At the presentation of the Alternative Report on the Implementation of the National Strategy for Combating Corruption, Maksic presented her analysis of articles devoted to this topic.