Publications

This publication focuses on the principle of opportunity, and the challenges in its application, mainly related to the non-uniformity of practice of public prosecution offices in Serbia. The intention of the authors was to provide guidelines for the unified application of the principle, and to fulfil the main task of deferred prosecution- to achieve the purpose of the punishment without conducting criminal proceedings in cases when this is not necessary or expedient, taking into account public interest. This Manual was drafted by the Working Group formed by the Republic Public Prosecutor's Office, and supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia. The publication is available in Serbian only.

The Guidelines for improving court practice in compensation proceedings for victims of serious crime in criminal proceedings have been developed by the Supreme Court of Cassation Working Group, with support from the OSCE Mission to Serbia throught the project “Support for Victims and Witnesses of Crime in Serbia”, implemented by the OSCE Mission and financed by the European Union. The Guidelines point out to the competent authorities’ obligation to decide on compensation within criminal proceedings, they provide answers to questions relating to determining the damage, types of non-material damage, as well as determining the amount of monetary compensation, and they emphasize the importance of informing victims about their rights. Available in Serbian only.

The manual represents an auxiliary tool for teachers of Serbian as a non-mother tongue in the achievement of learning outcomes in the third cycle of education. It contains 320 recommended words and grammatical and semantic elements that students of secondary school need to acquire, in line with the learning outcomes and thematic units that are part of the new curriculum for Serbian as a non-mother tongue. The purpose of the manual is to enable smoother adoption of the most frequently used terminology in Serbian. The manual also includes five illustrations which will be of practical assistance to teachers in organising the Serbian language classes. This manual is not available in English language.

The manual represents an auxiliary tool for teachers of Serbian as a non-mother tongue in the achievement of learning outcomes in the second cycle of compulsory education. It contains 400 recommended words and grammatical and semantic elements that students from fifth till eight grade of elementary school need to acquire, in line with the learning outcomes and thematic units that are part of the new curriculum for Serbian as a non-mother tongue. The purpose of the manual is to enable smoother adoption of the most frequently used terminology in Serbian. The manual also includes five illustrations which will be of practical assistance to teachers in organising the Serbian language classes. This manual is not available in English.

The publication is a result of scientific research conducted with the aim of understanding changes in the phenomenology of the criminal offence of domestic violence, recording the key challenges in the functioning of the mechanism of criminal justice protection against domestic violence,

Data protection in security sector, a legislative guidebook. The publication is available only in Serbian.

The purpose of this Guide is to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of affairs of cyber security in the Republic of Serbia, focusing on the normative and strategic framework established thus far.

The manual represents an auxiliary tool for teachers of Serbian as a non-mother tongue in the achievement of learning outcomes in the first cycle of education. It contains 600 recommended words and grammatical and semantic elements that students from first till fourth grade of elementary school need to acquire, in line with the learning outcomes and thematic units that are part of the newly adopted curriculum for Serbian as a non-mother tongue. The purpose of the manual is to enable smoother adoption of the most frequently used terminology in Serbian. The manual also includes ten illustrations which will be of practical assistance to teachers in organising the Serbian language classes. The publication is available in Serbian language only.

The Manual on Suppression of Economic Crimes and Corruption includes an analysis of all criminal statutes that fall within the area of economic crimes and corruption. The Manual is intended for Serbian criminal law practitioners and other experts interested in these topics. The OSCE Mission to Serbia and the US Department of Justice jointly supported printing of the publication, not available in English.

The Manual is intended for criminal law judges in Serbia to guide them in writing criminal law judgments. It is the result of a series of working group meetings organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the US Department of Justice with support of the Supreme Court of Cassation of Serbia, in the period of two years. The authors of the Manual are prominent criminal law judges of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Appellate Court in Belgrade. The Manual is available only in Serbian language.