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 ...

{image1} Proposed changes to the law on defense, military, police and BIA introduce worse solutions than existing ones and if adopted they can lead to the collapse of the security system and jeopardize Serbia's European integration, it was concluded at the public debate organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) on February 1st 2018, in the Media Center in Belgrade. The reason for the public hearing was ...

{image1} Democratic institutions and the rule of law have been endangered throughout Europe, and the polarization of societies has made it difficult to oversee the security sector. This was emphasized during the third panel of the conference organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on the 20th anniversary celebration, on 28 November 2017 in Dorcol Platz. The third panel conference was dedicated to exacerbating democratic control of ...

In addition to commenting on the proposed amendments to the Law on Defense and the Army, the BCSP research team draws attention to already problematic or defective legal solutions.

In this document, prof. dr Bogoljub Milosavljevic proposes legal solutions whose implementation would lead to the normative improvement of the intelligence system of the Republic of Serbia.

New analysis of the BCSP points to the insufficiently investigated topic of private detective companies and answers four basic questions: What do we know about detectives in Serbia, what do they actually do, what competencies do they have and how can their work be improved from the point of of law and human rights?

Before the special Law on Private Security was adopted in November 2013, the private security industry had been operating in a legal vacuum for 20 years. The analysis of the implementation of this Law was conducted by the BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic.

In this study the author Bogoljub Milosavljević provides a comprehensive review of the legal framework that governs the security-intelligence system of Serbia, points out the shortcomings of the legal framework, and offers recommendations for their elimination.

Uncoordinated state policy in the field of criminal law, more precisely, the need for harmonization of new Law on Police with Criminal Procedure Code, were the main topics of the sixth CHATvrtak.