Issues that can be proposed by citizens using the initiative process at the national level

Serbia, Constitution 2006, accessed 20 December 2021

Article 2: Sovereignty holders

Sovereignty is vested in citizens who exercise it through referendums, people's initiative and freely elected representatives.

ARTICLE 107. A right to propose laws, other regulations and general acts shall belong to every deputy, the Government, assemblies of autonomous provinces or at least 30,000 voters.

ARTICLE 108. REFERENDUM

Upon the request of the majority of all deputies or at least 100,000 voters, the National Assembly shall call the referendum on issues falling within its competence, in accordance with the Constitution and Law.

The subject of the referendum may not include duties deriving from international contracts, laws pertaining to human and minority rights and freedoms, fiscal and other financial laws, the budget and financial statement, introduction of the state of emergency and amnesty, as well as issues pertaining to election competences of the National Assembly.

Article 203: Proposal to amend the Constitution and adoption of the amendment to the Constitution

A proposal to amend the Constitution may be submitted by at least one third of the total number of deputies, the President of the Republic, the Government and at least 150,000 voters.

Serbia, Law on the Referendum and the People’s Initiative (December 2021) [in Serbian], accessed 20 December 2021

Notion of People's Initiative

Article 56. By a people's initiative, citizens propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of the Constitution, laws, other regulations and general acts within the competence of the National Assembly, and/or of the statute, other regulations and general acts within the competence of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province and local self-government units, and submit other proposals in accordance with the Constitution and the law, and/or the statute of the autonomous province and local self-government unit.