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The contemporary world is facing serious ecological problems as a result of social, demographic, and economic factors. Among these problems, water pollution occupies an important role. The public in Serbia is not sufficiently informed about the lack of water on the planet. In Serbia, a country that has been subjected to numerous socio-political crises for decades, very little attention is given to environmental protection and the development of ecological awareness. Therefore, this paper is a case study on the pollution of the river South Morava (Južna Morava). The aim of this paper is to establish the role of the media in forming public opinion and developing ecological awareness on the protection of the river. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout Serbian history there is a dominant cultural and political direction which points to the fact that in our culture there is one fatal flaw - valuing power over personality. The aim of this paper is to describe similar elements of both work and behaviour of a certain class of people, primarily the "intellectual elite", which prefers the highest economical and political positions. In addition, through parallelism of past and present similarities between semi-intellectuals (Jovanovic), "intelligence" (Reiss), and communist-capitalists as the new-old social phenomenon in the post-socialist society, the paper draws attention to a constant state and behaviour spanning over the nineteenth and the twentieth century with a tendency to proceed well into the next millennium. There is a noticeable phenomenon of the longevity of the same type of people (and their offspring), who, all of a sudden, as one promised future collapses, appear as the heralds of a new future. Therefore, this negative social phenomenon is the posed challenge for our national existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the author analyzes the process of establishing a system of fundamental values in the rule of law in the context of constitutional discontinuity by exploring the concept of the representative mandate as a basic constitutional principle in new democracies. The first part contains the general considerations on the relationship between the constituent power versus the fundamental values and (non-)legal factors, which should support both the establishment of constitutional rules and their interpretation in order to maintain the fundamental values. The subject matter of analysis in the second part are the citizens' value judgments on the representative mandate, which are to reveal the evolutionary pattern of this principle in both developed and developing democracies. Taking into account the gap between the existing and the proclaimed constitutional system in Serbia, the third part of the paper contains a proposal for instituting a set of potential constitutional measures to "defend" value judgments on the representative mandate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The principle of guilt is one of the essential principles of criminal law. However, it is a very complex principle. Its content has been presented in this paper particularly referring to a systematic deviation of it in the criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia. According to the provisions of the article 2 of the Criminal Code of Serbia the principle of guilt is related to punishments and warning measures, while security and educational measures remained beyond its reach. On the other side, The Criminal Code defining a crime offense in the article 14 demands culpability of perpetrator's behavior. It involves a conceptual problem: a possibility is given for criminal sanctions of the principle of guilt, article 2 of the Criminal Code not referring to security and educational measures could be applied for people acting without culpability. It is paradoxical to accept criminal-justice reaction in the form of criminal sanctions regarding people without guilt. According to author of this paper, such a normative solution brings into issue the relevant principle, more precisely its basis, generality and guidance, the qualities that every legal principle should maintain. Of course, deviations of legal principle and the principle of guilt are possible but they must be kept to a minimum. Otherwise, systematic legal principle deviations, in this case the principle of guilt, are not to be tolerated. Connecting the principle of guilt with the system of criminal sanctions opens the debate on voluntarism embodied in the freedom of will and guilt and positivism/determinism embodied in perpetrator's danger and educational neglect within the criminal law. It is over a century discussion in the science of criminal law. The author of the paper concludes criminal-justice reaction in the form of criminal sanction can be justified only of based on the principle of guilt. Otherwise, such a reaction has no place in the criminal law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject matter of this paper is divorce by mutual consent in Roman law and contemporary law. In the first part of this article, the authors analyzes the key tenets of consensual divorce in Roman law, with specific reference to the impact of Christian religious teaching on the concepts of marriage and divorce as well as on the Roman rulers' constitutions, which marked the beginning of the process of restricting the right to divorce. In the central part of the paper, the authors examines the regulation on the consensual divorce in some contemporary legal systems. In addition, the authors provides a substantial analysis of the normative framework on the termination of marriage in the positive Serbian legislation. In the final part of the paper, the authors provides a comparative analysis and underscores the observed similarities and differenced in the regulation of the institute of consensual divorce in Roman law and in the contemporary legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper deals with the objective, outcome and content of constitutional law and other subjects of constitutional law matter that is thought in public law schools in Republika Srbija and Republika Srpska, and at the Criminal police Academy in Belgrade. Processing, first of all, the content of these academic courses is a continuation of previously published work on some formal data about the courses. The paper emphasizes the need for a critical approach to the constitutional system which is, as part or whole, the topic of the constitutional law matter subjects. With such scientific approach, the constitutional system can become more harmonious and functional which will affect the quality of the academic courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the author analyzes the various legal institutions under the Serbian Law on Obligations where the purpose for which parties conclude a contract gains legal relevance. The subject of the analysis is only the institutions that pertain to the so-called general theory of the law of contract. The author admits, however, that even though it was scientifically justified to perform a similar research in the domain of the rules on typical contracts in the Law, such an attempt would exceed the envisaged limits of this paper. The essential rules in the Law on the cause of contracts are the ones that refer to the basis of contractual obligation and motives for concluding a contract. The Law adopts the so-called objective-subjective theory on cause, which means that it requires the existence of a genuine and permitted basis of contractual obligations as one of the preconditions of formation of a contract and its validity, while it does not define what the basis of contractual obligations actually means. Surely, it cannot be subjective reasons, inner motives that drive parties to conclude a contract, since they are regulated in another article of the Law, which prescribes that permitted inner motives do not effect the formation and validity of a contract in any way (such effect may only have illicit motives under specific conditions). The basis of contractual obligations and motives for concluding a contract are the two legal institutions in the Law where the question of the purpose for which parties intent to contract gains direct legal relevance. However, it has some legal relevance within the framework of other legal institutions as well. The Law in various wordings, namely, takes into account the purpose of concluding a contract in relation with the notions of void contract and consequences of its nullity, conversion, partial nullity, specific cases of rescission of contract (rescission of contract with successive obligations due to nonperformance and rescission of contract due to partial impossibility of the object of the contract), rescission or modification of contract due to supervening events (clausula rebus sic stantibus), nullity of certain provisions of general terms of trade, unjustified enrichment and novation. Finally, the author remarks that there are legal institutions in the Law where the wording does not uses the expression basis, purpose, motives or any other with a similar meaning, but their essence can only be explained by no other theory but the theory of cause. Thus, the author's opinion is that the justification of nullity of sham contracts, rescission of contract due nonperformance or impossibility, the objection of failure to perform (exceptio non adimpleti contractus), the rule according to which unclear clauses in a contract are to be construed in the light of the common intent of the parties, just as the fraudulent conveyance (actio Pauliana) where the law sanctions the illicit, fraudulent motive of the debtor to swindle, evade his creditors, lies in the very theory of cause, even though such an inference cannot directly be drawn from the phrasing of the given article in the Law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is dedicated to the conditional delay of criminal prosecution in article 236 of the Serbian Code of Criminal Procedure. This is so-called diversion concept. This institution has changed in procedural reforms in 2004. and 2009. Generally, there are some better solutions in current regulations. Evidently, the legislator attempted to wide this institution in practice. On the other hand, the paper presents critical comments of some provisions. Therefore, the author suggest the improvement of legal text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some aspects of the safety measures subject matter is discussed in the first part of the paper. In the second and third part of the paper the author carries out an doctrinal analysis of the legal clauses which regulate conditions for passing the safety measures of obligatory treatment of alcoholics and drug addicts. In the end the author concludes that new legal clauses which refer to safety measures in the new Criminal Code are worse than in the anterior one. He also draws a conclusion about legality of passing those safety measures from the standpoint of the Constitutional law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Many studies proves that all economies have had high rate of economic growth in the long run (increase of 7% for more than two decades) that was without any exceptions export-driven. Analysis of foreign trade between the Serbia and Russian Federation should reveal segments in foreign trade where amount traded should be intensified. Two decades ago Russia was the most important Serbian foreign trade partner, where Serbia had foreign trade surplus. Today Serbian export to Russian Rederation covers onlz quarter of its import, despite the fact that two ceountries signed Treatment on foreign trade in August 2000. In the first chapter of the paper we analyze Serbian economic structure, due to the fact that economic structure deteminate export. The new model of Serbian economic growth should be based on tradeble economic sectors. Russian model of economic development, that had been significantly changed during hte last two decades in transition from planned to market economy, is subject of analysis in the second chapter. In the third chapter of the paper Serbian-Russian Federation foreign trade is analysed in order to discover which market segments could be important for Serbian exporters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trade between customs territories of Serbia proper and Kosovo is highly influenced by political factors and insecurity. Nevertheless, after 2006, this trade has constituted around 4% of exports from Serbia according to the official trade statistics. In this paper we explore the conditions for trade between Serbia proper and Kosovo, focusing particularly on the trade regime. This regime is defined by an abundance of by-laws that are often contradictory and ambiguous. In addition to examining official trade flows, we use field research in order to estimate the grey trade flows between the two customs territories. Putting aside the political situation connected to the unresolved status of Kosovo, the trade between Serbia proper and Kosovo is highly significant, especially if we take into account the grey trade flows, and it can have significant and broad social and political effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject matter of this paper is the causal relation between the rule of law, understood as universal protection of private property rights and contract rights, and economic growth. The aim is to examine to what extent the rule of law is important for the increase of per capita income and whether the rule of law is a sufficient condition for that increase. Hence, the author provides an overview of the current theoretical and empirical research on the relation between certain rule of law indicators (primarily the protection of property rights and contract rights, and other related indicators) and economic growth. In particular, the author focuses on the evaluation of the rule of law in our country based on the unique methodology applied by relevant international organizations (the Fraser Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and others) to measure the degree of economic freedom in countries worldwide. The goal is to determine Serbia's position in the world regarding the protection of property rights and contract rights, examine the implications of the rule of law for economic growth in Serbia and, on these grounds, make specific recommendations to the officials in charge of our economic development policy to institute the reform measures which are necessary for increasing the economic growth rate. The general conclusion is that it is essential to make a sharp turn in our country towards strengthening the rule of law and other components of economic freedom in order to accomplish a long-term economic growth (growth of per capita income). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to provide a part of the explanation of the necessity to begin the implementation of a comprehensive National Public Administration Reform Strategy as soon as possible upon its adoption, because the reality is such that the state administration apparatus in the Republic of Serbia is an extensive system, which does not have much time when the implementation of new structural, functional, human resource, and other solutions is concerned. In addition, one of the goals is to show a comparative review of strategies related to state administration reform in the Republic of Serbia, as well as to clarify the essential broadening of the term "state administration" to "public administration", all this in the context of accession to the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Serbia it is prescribed that foreign legal or natural persons could not become owners of agricultural land, while in Montenegro, Croatia and The Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina there is the ban for both agricultural and forest land. The aim of this paper is to show that such a ban creates an economic environment where an optimal allocation of agricultural and forest land as a production factor could not be achieved. The cost - benefit analysis shows that main gainers are domestic producers and buyers of land who are able to realize a monopoly profit, whereas sellers of land are at loss, getting a lower economic rent, as well as foreign buyers. A total loss of domestic sellers only is bigger than a total profit of buyers. In the end, it is being pointed to a relativity of the ban, in the sense of a possibility to easily get past the ban through provisions of the other norms. The conclusion points out that an eventual suspension of the ban would stimulate efficiency of domestic economies and an increase in the neto welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the author gives an overview of the regulation of compulsory licence in international and Serbian sources of patent law. From international sources the subjects of analysis are the Paris Convention, TRIPS Agreement and the Community Patent Convention, whereby the last one has not come into force yet, but also contains rules on compulsory license. As far as Serbian law is concerned, all patent laws are analysed, from the first one adopted as early as 1922 in the first Yugoslavia, until the effective Patent Law from 2011. The evolution of compulsory licence is traditionally paralleled to the institution of forfeiture of patent. As the forfeiture of patent, as a sanction against the patent owner who does not intend to exploit the invention, was gradually losing its significance, so were the rules on compulsory licence becoming more detailed and nuanced. Nevertheless, at present compulsory licence is an instrument rarely applied in practice. This is primarily true of cases of compulsory licences that are usually referred to as classical, such as the one issued when the patent holder does not exploit the invention or exploits it insufficiently and the one issued for the purpose of exploitation of a dependent patent, on the one hand, and the compulsory licence issued in public interest in narrower sense, on the other. It is to be expected, however, that two latest subcategories of compulsory licence, the one issued as a remedy for the infringement of the rules of competition and the one issued for the production of medicines for the purpose of export into countries with problems relating to public health, will be applied more frequently in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the author presents the evolution of the simplified procedure in Serbia from 2001 to 2011. He points to some legal innovations in this field during that deccenium. He compares old and new legal provisions about simplified procedure and finds some differences. There is a constant tendency to expanding the area of criminal offences which can be judged in this procedural form. Some new legal provisions result from new model of investigation or from new concept of trial. Some innovations are more consistent and precise. But, there are also illogical and contradictory provisions in code of criminal procedure from 2011. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Western Balkans in the period from 1992 to 2000 and later was the site of serious armed conflicts in which there was a significant threat to human life and other human rights of the civilian population. The deployment of international humanitarian organizations in this area was significant and with somewhat different role than the example of the African continent or elsewhere. Period of the ten war years as many post-war years of their engagement was quite enough for methodologically correct examenation of their role, problems and attitudes of the "beneficiaries" of these organizations on the activities of these organizations and their synchronization with the government. Numerous problems were noted from the practice of humanitarian organizations that are potencially usefull for improvements in the future. In this paper we present only some parts of the expert group from Serbia extensive research who exactly talking about these problems. Particularly interesting are the data on the abuse of humanitarian aid as well as data that are different from those presented by some official international organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a compatibility analysis of curriculums of teacher training faculties in Serbia according to the distribution of psychology in the process of initial teacher training. Comparative analysis of teacher training faculties' curriculums was performed in accordance with the following parameters: total number of courses in the field of psychology within a study programme; categorization of courses as required and elective; categorization of courses in accordance with the requests of the accreditation commission; and distribution according to the number of active teaching classes and course credits (ECTS). The analysis showed that psychology distribution in accredited curriculums of teacher training faculties in Serbia differs in most of the observed parameters. Taking into account the recommended competencies in European and national documents, the question remains to what extent the competencies that psychological disciplines help develop are realized within initial teacher training in Serbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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How to comply with the demands of democracy and thus contribute to its realisation, is a question which has repeated itself through history up to modern age. In the context of such an argument, the author wishes, through this paper, to return the reader to the time when Serbs, in a newly restored country, faced similar requests which the age of modernism had carried. Europeanisation of modern Serbia, followed by imperative respect for traditional values, meant accepting certain ideas significant in the context of modern state law organising. Along with the idea of constitutionality, the idea of modern representative democracy followed by its characteristic prodigies, was strongly rooted. Hence, the author wishes to explain the institutionalising process of representative democracy through promoting national representation, accentuating the period which highly contributed to formal democratization of the society and state. The author also underlines the fact that only few decades stand between the period of unrestrained despotic government and the period when, liberally coloured tendencies were formed into the first National Assembly Act (1858). A decade later, by Constitution of 1869, for the first time, National Assembly got its place in the system of central government, and after introducing democratic parliamentarism, Constitution of 1888, finally founded the state on its modern grounds, in compliance with modern European standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Officially, the Serbian Orthodox Church enjoyed a legally guaranteed status throughout the 19th century and Orthodox faith was considered to be prevalent both in the Principality of Serbia and in the Kingdom of Serbia. Nevertheless, after gaining its autonomy within the Constantinople Patriarchate in 1831 (under whose forced jurisdiction it had been since 1766), Knez Miloš’s attitude and a number of state provisions led to the unsparing diminishing of the Church authority together with frequent subversions of the Church Canon law. Introduction of the constitutional and legislative framework for the activities of the Serbian church, the enforcement of institutionalized mechanisms of control, and above all, direct interference of the State authorities in the elections of Church hierarchs and their activities, marked relations of the Church and the State in the 19th century. “Might makes right” rule was always on the State side. Investigations so far have least examined those provisions of the Government concerning general and theological education, in which church music also found its place. Presentation and analysis of the facts about the beginnings of organised music education go in favour of the existing findings on concurrencies and discrepancies in two cultural policies – that of the State and the one of the Church. Attitudes of the Sovereign and the Government towards the educational process, so vital during the decades of the State formation, are also indicative for affirmation of chanting practice and music art in general, as are (non-) conflicting interests between the prelates and distinguished public figures on one, and those in charge at the ministries on the other side. This paper presents all relevant government legislations regulating religious and music education at regular and theological schools. Attempts of the Church dignitaries and learned Serbian musicians to raise the level of music culture with the help of the State authorities are particularly emphasised. The emphasis was especially on the promotion of polyphonic church music and endeavours to print notated church chanting books. All relevant direct and indirect contributors to the expansion of church music are mentioned, among them especially music teachers at the Theological high school in Belgrade. Eventually, the paper points to those legal regulations which imposed on teachers certain duties related to everyday church services and reactions of the teachers to those regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with ethnomusicological research methodologies, the application of ethnomusicological knowledge outside academic institutions and ideologies which have contributed to ethnomusicological discourses in Serbia. Furthermore, state policy on ethnomusicology and folk music is analysed. The recent institutionalisation of applied ethnomusicology, i.e. direct ethnomusicological engagement in society, which represents a turning point in the development of ethnomusicology, is particularly emphasized. The difference between contemporary applied ethnomusicology and ethnomusicology is in direct engagement: goals are changed, new strategies of (field-) work are introduced, folk music as a political tool is adopted, neutrality of research positions is destabilized, resulting in the emergence of the greatest problem of the discipline - ethics. Applied ethnomusicology in Serbia is especially interesting not only because of local cultural characteristics, but also because of the specific position of Serbian ethnomusicology in the scientific world map. The activities of the Serbian Ethnomusiclogical Society are analyzed as a representative example of successful public engagement. The projects of the Society are classified according to the type of animation (cultural and scientific). The promotion of Serbian folk music, folk music of national minorities and bagpipe-playing revitalization fall into the first category, whereas the second one comprises scientific round tables and the projects dealing with the preservation of Serbian folk music heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transition of the 19th into the 20th century in Serbian music history was a period of music criticism, journalism and essay writing. At that time, Serbian musicology had not yet been developed as an academic discipline. After WWI there were many more academic writings on this subject; therefore, the interwar period represents the beginning of Serbian music historiography. This paper analyses Serbian interwar music magazines as source material for the history of Serbian musicology. The following music magazines were published in Belgrade at the time: Muzički glasnik (Music Herald, 1922), Muzika (Music, 1928–1929), Glasnik Muzičkog društva “Stanković“ (Stanković Music Society Herald, 1928–1934, 1938–1941; from January 1931. known as Muzički glasnik /Music Herald/), Zvuk (Sound, 1932–1936), Vesnik Južnoslovesnkog pevačkog saveza (The South Slav Singing Union Courier, 1935–1936, 1938), Slavenska muzika (Slavonic Music, 1939–1941), and Revija muzike (The Music Review, 1940). A great number of historical studies and writings on Serbian music were published in the interwar periodicals. A significant contribution was made above all to the study of Serbian musicians' biographies and bibliographies of the 19th century. Vladimir R. Đorđević published several short biographies in Muzički glasnik (1922) in an article called Ogled biografskog rečnika srpskih muzičara (An Introduction to Serbian Musicians' Biographies). Writers on music obviously understood that the starting point in the study of Serbian music history had to be the composers' biographical data. Other magazines (such as Muzički glasnik in 1928 and 1931, Zvuk, Vesnik Južnoslovenskog pevačkog saveza, and Slavenska muzika) published a number of essays on distinguished Serbian and Yugoslav musicians of the 19th and 20th centuries, most of which deal with both composers' biographical data and analysis of their compositions. Their narrative style reflects the habits of 19th-century romanticism and positivism: in some of these writings the language also has an aesthetic function. Serbian interwar music magazines also published some archival documents contributing to the future research of Serbian music history. Interwar period in the then Yugoslavia was a time of rapid development and modernization in various fields of culture. There was a great demand for music writings of general interest. Therefore, Revija muzike (January – June 1940) was totally oriented towards the popularization of music and the arts (such as drama and film). This magazine also published some popular articles on music history. Serbian interwar music periodicals were least active in the field of musicological analysis. However, in 1934, Branko M. Dragutinović published a detailed analytic study of Josip Slavenski's composition Religiofonija (Religiophonics) in Zvuk. There were also some interdisciplinary history articles in Serbian interwar music magazines. Being well aware of the fact that music history comprises not only music itself, but also music writing, schools, institutions and music life, our music writers used "indirect" sources, such as literature and art, as well as music. Serbian interwar music periodicals opened many fields of research, thus blazing a trail in postwar Serbian musicology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives an overview of the papers and events at the Third Serbian Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held at Vlasina Ifrom 5th to 8th July 2011. The sections dealing with specific areas of applied mechanics are presented and an overview of Invited lectures is given. The papers of the authors from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), who actively participated at this Congress, are presented in particular. At the end of the Congress, the Assembly of the Serbian Society of Mechanics was held and a new executive committee was elected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The basic information about the overal results, significance, international programme committee and working areas of the International Conference on Dependability and Quality Management ICDQM is presented. There are more details about this year's 14th ICDQM-2011 and 2nd International Conference on Life Cycle Engineenng and Management, which was held under the same acronim ICDQM-2011. The number and structure of the papers are given as well as the review of the papers presented as plenary lectures by the participants from the Armed forces and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia in the following sections: Quality Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Concurrent Engineering, Systems Engineering, Military Engineering, and Continuo- us Quality Improvement. Almost a half of these papers are in the Military Engineering Section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Due to the poor wheat harvest in exporting countries of Eastern Europe in the second half of 2010, the price of wheat on the world market is constantly growing. Serbia was disposed of surplus after the harvest and used it for exporting into other markets. At the end of the year the possibility of introducing temporary export tariffs on wheat was announced, in order to prevent price increase in food, reduction of purchasing power and shortage of wheat on domestic market. The aim was to review the effects which would result from assuming the introduction of the proposed measures. The paper presents the movement of wheat prices on international and domestic markets, analyzes the economic effects of export restrictions and lists international treaties that Serbia had accepted, and which represent an obstacle to the introduction of such measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In contemporary tax systems there are three basic models of taxation of personal income: schedular, global and mixed. Until recently, the global income approach has been favoured as the best solution, but contemporary economic circumstances have led to alternative models of taxation of personal income: dual income tax, negative income tax and flat tax. In this paper author deals with advantages and disadvantages of each of these systems and suggests possible options for reform in Serbia. The European Union does not require a specific model of income taxation and therefore there is a lot of different solutions, although there is difference between the old and new members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is dedicated to the new provisions in Code of Criminal Procedure in Serbia, which went into effect in 2009. The article presents critical comments of some inapplicable, contradictory and unclear provisions. The paper is separated in four parts: 1) reference to another nonexistence provisions; 2) contradictory provisions; 3) unclear provisions and 4) gaps in the law. Therefore, the author interprets those confused regulations and suggests the improvement of legal text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Serbia (among the last countries in Europe) has introduced the institution of the nuptial (marital) agreement into the substantive legislation. Family Law of the Republic of Serbia from 2005 eliminated the difference between the substantive law of the Republic of Serbia and practically all European comparative legislatures with regard to the possibility of modification of the statutory marital-property regime. However, the aforementioned institution is not for the first time found in the Serbian law. Its existence and application in Serbia of the nineteenth and twentieth century had relatively long tradition. The period following the Second World War brought about the prohibition of modification in the statutory regime of common property of spouses. Under the Family Law, for the first time after more than six decades, it is established that spouses and future marital partners shall be entitled to change statutory regime of the common spousal property and enter into legal transactions which will pro futuro regulate their property relations both in the matters of the existing as well as the future property. The institution of nuptial (marital) agreement enables the prospective as well as the existing marital partners to arrange for the separate-property regime and to regulate their relations in accordance with the principle of freedom of contract, without any formal restrictions existing until then. Theoreticians have recognised a number of systems of property relations between spouses in the European law. Principally, their considerations boil down to the three, i.e., the four major approaches. „The first system includes merging of the property, the second one refers to the separate property system and the third one is the joint property system or ownership in common“. Individual theoreticians also refer to the fourth system -- „the deferred community property regime (i.e. the community-of-property regime) This paper underlines that nuptial (marital) agreements do not have the same function in reform countries as in other countries across our continent. In the societies undergoing transition the family legislation generally maintained the joint property regime. Accordingly, in these legal systems the nuptial (marital) agreements attempt to satisfy the aspirations of spouses to establish the separate property regime within their property relations. In majority of significantly economically developed countries, the property relations between spouses are based on the separate property system (as a statutory property regime), and spouses may agree on the community-of-property by means of contract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conclusions of so called St. Nicholas' Committee (convened on December 6th, 1868 -- on St. Nicholas' Day, with task to prepare the new constitution) concerning bicameral structure of National Assembly were presented in this paper. The conclusions of the Committee regarding the structure of National Assembly did not serve as a model for the provisions of the Constitution of the Principality of Serbia of 1869 (so called „Regency Constitution“). Although the Constitution of 1869 did not introduce Senate, one third of the deputies of Assembly were appointed by knez. According to its provisions, those appointed deputies were, in some way, a substitute for the upper house of the legislature, envisaged by members of St. Nicholas' Committee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper considers the need of the harmonization of the criminal procedure legislation with the new Constitution of Serbia, which introduces the method of cross-examination of witnesses. Author describes the differences between continental and anglosaxon model of witness hearing. Afterwards, he points to legal changes which are necessary, and also to some dilemmas. That cannot be denied the possibility that al of that results in strengthen of other accusatorial elements in our legislature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is divided into four parts. In the first part the author is dealing with the relation of DNA analysis and some constitutional rights, and concludes, the law should explicitly allow any intervention into the constitutional rights of citizens. Afterwards the author examines the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of 2001 that is in force. He concludes, the Code has no provisions based on which the DNA analyses could be applied lawfully. Thereafter, in the second part, the author talks about the Criminal Procedure Code of 2006, that is not in force, but which entering in force has been delayed until December 31, 2008. The author emphasizes that Art. 143. para. 3 creates grounds for the lawful application of the DNA analyses in practice. However, the provisions are very few and not sufficient considering the importance of the rights that are potentially endangered by conducting DNA analyses. The third part is devoted to the issue of taking samples by force for DNA analyses, under the light of the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. The author concludes the provisions of the new Criminal Procedure Code of 2006 that regulate the taking of samples by force are in compliance with the practice of the Court. The forth part is dealing with the need and models of creating centralized DNA registers in Serbia. In the final part the author gives his final, concluding remarks and points onto the need for further legislative work and detailed legal regulation of DNA analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Impact of innovation and entrepreneurship in the times of economic crisis is analized. Central topics of interest in the paper are: relationship between innovation and unemployment, the role of SMEs within overall economic structure, as well as their importance in the processes of innovation and economic crisis. It is concluded that for Serbia to overcome existing economic crisis it is necessary for the government to support the SMEs sector and other subjects of the economy in order to ease their recovery from the economic crisis. In the long run development of entrepreneurial and innovative culture is the guarantee of stable growth and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the last few years, wheat production in our country has been reduced to the level of national consumption, but it is still subject to quantitative and qualitative changes. In order to under stand fluctuations in wheat production at the regional level, wheat cultivars were grown in the same locations for three consecutive years and analyzed for qualitative characteristics affecting grain utilization level during milling. The results of the paper showed that the harvest year 1997 was typical for all the cultivars and had the lowest average test weight (77.4 kg hl-1), largest absolute mass (37.9 g), highest protein content (12.5 %) and the best Flour yield (I1) (69.0%). Over the three-year period, I1 varied from 62.1 to 69.0 % over all and between 65.2 and 66.7 % in select locations. The findings of our study are a result of combined cultivar x location and cultivar x year effects, in other words, of cultivar x environment interactions. Generally, the cultivar x environment interactions in this paper were signifi cant (P<0.01), albeit relatively small. All of the study parameters varied highly significantly more by year than by location. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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