Who checks the signatures?

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

Article 67. The competent body of the National Assembly, and/or the competent working body of the provincial assembly or assembly of the local self-government unit shall verify, within 30 days of submission of people’s initiative with the List of signatories, whether list of signatories of the people’s initiative has been drawn up in accordance with the provisions of this Law and whether a sufficient number of signatures has been collected, and shall inform the Speaker of the Assembly thereof.

The List of signatories shall be verified by the competent commission.

The List of signatories supporting people’s initiative in electronic form shall be verified by comparing signatories’ data with the data in the electoral roll.

Verification referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article shall be performed by the Ministry in charge for maintaining single electoral roll in case of the List of people’s initiative signatories submitted to the National or Provincial Assembly, or by the competent body of the local self-government unit’s administration in case of the List of people’s initiative signatories submitted to the assembly of that self-government unit.

If establishing that the List has not been drawn up in accordance with the provisions of this Law or that a sufficient number of signatures has not been collected, the competent body of the National Assembly, and/or the competent working body of the provincial assembly or assembly of the local self-government shall notify the initiative board thereof within seven days, and shall set a time limit for remedying those deficiencies, which may not be shorter than 15 days.

If the initiative board fails to remedy the deficiencies within the time limit set, the assembly shall render a decision rejecting the people’s initiative.