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The Council of Europe's Venice Commission will at a plenary session in Venice on June 12 endorse an urgent opinion on the recent amendments to Serbia's judicial laws.
Serbian Assembly Speaker Ana Brnabic is to take part in the session.
The Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body for constitutional issues, on April 24 published an urgent opinion on amendments to the five laws that regulate the judiciary and public prosecution in Serbia and provided seven key recommendations for eliminating the shortcomings that disrupt the mechanisms of protection of the autonomy of public prosecution and the judiciary's independence.
In the urgent opinion Brnabic requested, the Venice Commission stated that the amendments adopted on Jan. 28 primarily affected the scope of hierarchical control within the public prosecution, expanded the circumstances in which temporary appointments and the re-election of public prosecutors and presidents of courts can be used, and changed the regime of temporary assignment of public prosecutors.
The Commission identified a number of shortcomings in the legal amendments which, observed individually and cumulatively, disrupt some of the previously existing mechanisms for protecting the autonomy of public prosecution and the judiciary's independence, the Council of Europe said on April 24.
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