The Model Rulebook on Administration in the Public Prosecutor’s Office

Februar 6, 2025 CEPRIS

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On the day of the constitution of the High Prosecutorial Council and the High Judical Council, the one-year deadline for the adoption of by-laws prescribed by the Law on the High Judicial Council and the Law on the High Prosecutorial Council began to run. That deadline expired in May of this year, and the Minister of Justice still has not adopted the Rulebook on Administration in the Public Prosecutor’s Office. We would like to remind you that the act on the administration of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is issued by the minister responsible for justice, after obtaining the opinion of the High Prosecutorial Council and the Supreme Public Prosecutor.

Bearing in mind the importance of the matter that the aforementioned Rulebook should regulate, CEPRIS formed a working group during this year with the aim of creating a model of that document.

The Model Rulebook on Administration in the Public Prosecutor’s Office is the result of the work of Bojana Savović, public prosecutor in the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade, together with her collaborators – Radovan Lazić, public prosecutor in the Appellate Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad referred to the War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office and former member of the State Council of Prosecutors and Milan Momčilović, lawyer and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Niš

The Model regulates the issues:

1. internal regulation and organisation of the work of the public prosecutor’s office;
2.  the relations of the public prosecutor’s office towards other state bodies, citizens and the public;
3.  use of public prosecutor’s office symbols, official language and script;
4. informing the public about the work of the public prosecutor’s office; 
5. balanced and timely management of cases; 
6. monitoring and analysing public prosecutor’s and court practice; 
7. managing complaints and applications pertaining to the work of the public prosecutors and employees of the public prosecutor’s office; 
8. data confidentiality protection; 
9. maintaining registers, auxiliary books, directories and other records; 
10. handling objects and items of value; 
11. keeping statistics; 
12. dealing with files; 
13. traineeship; 
14. treatment of parties by employees of the public prosecutor’s office;
15. deciding on the rights based on the work of public prosecutors and employees of the public prosecutor’s office;
16. ensuring the independence, reputation and efficiency of the work of the public prosecutor’s office;
17. ensuring the impartial distribution of cases to public prosecutors and other issues of importance for the work of the public prosecutor’s office.