The Ministry of Justice, USAID Rule of Law Project and Judicial Academy are organising ten sessions for judges and enforcement agents to present an amended legal framework in the area of enforcement and security which will apply from 1 January 2020.
Assistant Justice Minister Jelena Deretić stated that such events, organised before the statute comes into effect, were rare examples of a timely institutional organisation aimed at agreeing on future practice and making everybody ready for a smooth implementation of the Act Amending the Enforcement and Security Act.
Deretić mentioned an invaluable contribution from the USAID project, under which a consultant had been hired to formulate amendments together with the Working Group, but who also drafted some secondary legislation.
She noted that the USAID was also working on developing technical tools to be implemented in our legal system for the first time, such as an electronic notice board, confirming that the project’s support was truly extraordinary.
“I would like to express my gratitude to the Judicial Academy and the USAID Project for responding positively to the Justice Ministry’s initiative to hold meetings of this kind, the presenters being our colleagues who were directly involved in developing new provisions. I hope that today, at the first in a series of presentations, you will get answers which will clarify any doubts you may have. In this regard, I wish you all successful work and easy implementation of new provisions as of 2020,” Deretić told the attendees at the first session held at the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research.
The topics covered by lecturers at today’s event included amendments to general provisions of the ESA, legal remedies, legal means and immovable property as a means of enforcement, electronic notice board, summary enforcement proceedings and voluntary debt settlement before initiating enforcement proceedings.