Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment

for Civil Society Development

Preliminary Findings for CSDev in Serbia

Sub-Area 2.2 State Support

Novi Sad, 13th November 2013

Methodology used
Legislation Desktop research (national legal dociments analysis)

Practice Interviews with expert focus group Questionnaires for CSOs CSOs and Independent state bodies reports analysis

Relevant legal documents

Constitution of Serbia, Official Gazette No. 98/2006, article 87 Budget Law, 2013 , lines 481 & 472 By-law/Regulation on criteria of financing and cofinancing CSOs activities from the national budget, Official Gazette No. 16/11 (adopted on 27th January 2012; changes from October 25th 2013.); The Law on Public Property, Official Gazette No. 88/2013, article 9, 26; The Law on Local Self-Government, Official Gazette No. 129/2007, article 20; The Law on Local Self-Government Financing, Official Gazette No.93/2012, article 6; The National Youth Strategy, Official Gazette, No.101/07 Towns' / municipalities' decisions on the use of stateowned property

Conclusion
Key success
Office for Cooperation with Civil Society introduced cofinancing of CSOs that have been granted from the European Union in the framework of the EU IPA Civil Society Facility 2011-2013.

Key bottleneck
There is still no national level Council which would gather representatives of state institutions and CSOs, aimed to joint determination / setting of priorities and CSOs participation in all phases of process. There is a need to fundamentally change articles on the Games of Chance Law to adjust to the Law on Associations and Law on Endowemwnts and Foundations. This is the issue to be advocatd for.

In October 2013, the Government has adopted changes of the Bylaw/Regulation on criteria of financing and co-financing CSOs activities from the national budget.