Materials to accompany an application for registration

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

Article 57. People’s initiative may be submitted in the form of:

1) a general proposal for adoption, amending or repeal of an appropriate act or resolving a certain issue, provided that it clearly shows the direction of changes, or solutions proposed (general initiative), or

2) a concrete proposal for adoption, amending or repeal of an appropriate act, with a drafted proposal of a legal act along with the reasoning (concretized initiative).

When the subject of a people's initiative is an act proposing amendment to a certain legal act, the amendments must be drafted so to be aligned with the part of the legal act that is not amended and remains in force, in such a manner that they together constitute a legally and logically harmonized whole.

A general and concretized proposal referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may also be submitted for the purpose of conducting a referendum.

Article 59. The initiative board shall formulate the proposal in one of the forms stipulated in Article 57 of this Law, sign and submit it to the assembly responsible for adoption of the act, or resolving the issue, for notification and verification of the proposal.

The proposal may be submitted in written or in electronic form.

If the proposal is submitted for the purpose of conducting a referendum, the proposal must also state the proposal of the referendum question with the offered answers.

The proposal submitted in electronic form must be signed by qualified electronic signature of the members of the initiative board, i.e. in accordance with the regulation governing the electronic people’s initiative.

Proposal must contain personal data of the members of the initiative board (name and surname, residence, address) which are published after the verification of the proposal.

The proposal shall be registered in the records of the received proposals and a confirmation of receipt shall be issued to the initiative board.

From the moment of submission of the proposal, the proposal may not be amended or modified, except for remedying deficiencies within the proposal verification procedure.