Updated: January 28, 2019
This Functional Review (FR) is the most comprehensive examination to date of the workings of Serbia’s prosecutorial system, and includes options and recommendations to assist Serbia achieve the requirements of Chapter 23 of the European Union’s (EU) Acquis Communautaire. One of the principal goals of the Review is to present an objective baseline of current sector performance, including assessments of the progress towards the prosecutorial goals of Serbia’s 2016 Action Plan for the implementation of the National Judicial Reform Strategy 2013-2018 (NJRS) for Chapter 23, which centered on the transfer of competences for the prosecutorial system from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)2 to the State Prosecutorial Council (SPC) and improvement of capacities of the SPC. The second principal goal is to provide options and recommendations for Serbia’s National Judicial Reform Strategy 2019-2024, and its accompanying Action Plan.
