Civil society organizations and the media have the opportunity to file requests for misdemeanour proceedings in cases where their right to free access to information of public importance has been violated as a legal entity, the Misdemeanour Court of Appeal ruled. With this interpretation, the dilemma was solved that caused the misdemeanour courts to reject dozens of requests by civil society organizations across Serbia. At the Second Session of ...

The importance of police using social media to communicate with citizens and build trust, current practices in Western Balkans, and recommentations for police to improve their social media presence and way of engaging citizens is detailed in the new BCSP publication.

New BCSP publication deals with Serbia-NATO cooperation aimed at enhancing interoperability of the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) through military exercises and training. Interoperability building is of great importance for participation in multinational operations, where SAF members have to function in synergy with other countries’ armed forces.

Inefficient planning of capital expenditures, poor control over “secret” procurement procedures and reduced competitiveness in public tenders are the main problems of procurement for the police in Serbia, are the conclusions of discussion on the topic of this area of public spending held on December 5 in Media Centre Belgrade. The main topic of the discussion organized by POINTPULSE regional network was the police procurement of 710 “Škoda Rapid” ...

It is of crucial importance in Serbia’s EU accession process, to include civil society organizations, accept their proposals, and enable them to directly influence creating of policies – concluded the participants of first EU-Serbia Civil society Joint Consultative Committee meeting.

Strengthening the integrity in the security sector was the subject of expert consultations which gathered 28 representatives of the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, Security-Information Agency, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, the Ombudsman, the Commissioner for Information of Public importance and Personal Data Protection, Agency for fighting against corruption, the Public Procurement Office and the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, from 9 to 11 July at Fruska Gora.

Familiarization with the importance of gender perspectives for strategic planning, and gaining concrete skills for the application of gender analysis in the reporting of results were the main themes of the seminar for analysts of the Ministry of Interior, held from March 12th to 14th, 2014 in the hotel Relax in Kovacica.

It is necessary to change the Law on free access to information of public importance by tightening sanctions and increasing the powers of the Commissioner, and for better implementation of the law it must be organized trainings for employees responsible for access to information, it is concluded during the presentation of the publication „Free access to information of public importance - theory and practice".

Reasons for joining a civil society organisation, importance of building relationships and the effects of networking were the topics of a presentation held by BCSP Communications Officer Radomir Cvetkovic at the 24th Belgrade Ignite.