The 2016 Annual Conference of Serbian judges took place in Vranjacka Banja, Serbia from 9 to 12 October 2016.

Specific topics that were discussed at the Conference were as follows: Judiciary today, Laws and their implementations, and Actual issues of the jurisprudence.

The Conference was opened by the Supreme Court Chief Justice Mr. Dragomir Milojevic.

The Conference was greeted by Ms. Nela Kuburovic, Minister of Justice; Ms. Vesna Ilic-Prelic, President of the Constitutional Court; H.E. Ambassador Michael Davenport, Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia; H.E. Ambassador Tim Cartwright, Head of the CoE Office at Belgrade. Representatives of judiciaries of Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the “former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” were also present.

More than 1000 participants had the opportunity to see presentations on the topics of criminal law, civil law, administrative law, and misdemeanor law, discuss the issues on the panels, hear the presentations of the legal experts, and discuss the disputable issues. The goals were to increase the efficiency of the judiciary and raise the level of human rights protection.

The Conference was supported by the Council of Europe, JRGA Project, the OSCE Mission to Serbia, the World Bank and GIZ.