Activity Details (ID# 4078)

Activity Synopsis

The general objective of this expertise mission was to review with the drafters as well as other relevant representatives, the CoE experts’ written comments submitted prior to the mission. This meeting, the first organised in co-operation with the Serbian Parliament on this draft text, was the fourth opportunity for the Serbian drafters to exchange views with the CoE experts on the draft Public information law. The aim of the mission was to suggest amendments to the drafters in order to align the text with the relevant European standards. 

One of the key results achieved during the mission was to provide the Minister of Culture and the Serbian Parliamentarians with a clear message of incompatibility of the drafts Law submitted to the CoE’s experts. 

The Minister of Culture decided to take a pro-active role in the drafting process of the Law on Public Information in order to achieve its full harmonisation with European standards. Additional assistance might be requested to the CoE. 

Minister of Culture and Public Information, representatives of the Secretariat for Legislature, Members of the Serbian Parliament, Members of the Working Group drafting the laws, representative of the OSCE Mission in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, representatives of the European Agency for Reconstruction 

Dr Jorge Pegado Liz, Lawyer and Member of the Portuguese High Authority for the Media (Lisbon) and Mr Gavin Millar, QC, Lawyer (London)
 

Mario OETHEIMER, Programme Adviser, Media Division, DG II
Ljiljana BREBERINA, Programme Adviser, CoE Office in Belgrade