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Serbia: Compliance with obligations and commitments and implementation of the post-accession co-operation programme: CoE Committee of Ministers’ 4th Report
 Executive Summary: After several years of political uncertainty, multiple elections and changes of government, Serbia has very nearly fulfilled all of the formal, quantifiable, commitments it took upon accession to the Council of Europe. The most serious exception is the full co-operation with ICTY and the handover of the remaining indictees. There are also two conventions and two pieces of legislation still outstanding, but these are currently in the process of adoption. Some of the most important commitments refer to longer term reform processes, which have begun and would be better suited to a dialogue-based observation with a regular stocktaking by the Committee of Ministers. Implementation of newly adopted legislation or national strategies should be monitored in order to assist the Serbian authorities to develop a track record of sustainable results of the reforms. Specific areas for this could include reform of the judiciary, fight against corruption and organised crime, domestic prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity, creating an improved climate of tolerance towards vulnerable minority groups (LGBT, religious minorities) and human rights defenders (NGOs, journalists), support for and functioning of independent institutions, as well as with regional and ethnic reconciliation efforts. (February 2008 - February 2009) |
           
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