108 II – 7 REQUEST TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY – EXCERPT FOR JOB CLASSIFICATION IN NPM REPUBLIC OF SERBIA PROTECTOR OF CITIZENS 31-310/ 2013 Belgrade Ref. No.36821 25 December 2013 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues - Mr. Zoran Babic, Chairperson of the Committee Pursuant to Article 6, paragraph 3 of the Law amending the Law on the Budget System (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 108/2013), I hereby submit this request to the Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues of the National Assembly for the purpose of obtaining approval for new employment… Rationale … In addition to tasks from the sphere of competence stipulated by the Law on Protector of Citizens, when the Law amending the Law on Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (“Official Gazette of RS – International Agreements”, No. 7/2011) entered into force, which in its Article 2а designated the Protector of Citizens to perform the tasks of the National Preventive Mechanism, it was necessary to hire employees to perform tasks of the National Preventive Mechanism. One advisor and two junior advisors have been employed for a definite period for those tasks. In rationale of the Government’s Draft Law on Performing the Tasks of the National Preventive Mechanism it was determined that those tasks should be performed by four civil servants: 1 senior advisor, 1 advisor and 2 junior advisors. When the Law entered into force, the NPM began operating without amendments to the instrument on job classification, by hiring employees for a definite period due to increased workload. … The above facts and the previous five years of practice in work of the Protector of Citizens reaffirm the need to amend not only the Law on the Protector of Citizens, but also the applicable Bylaw on Internal Organization and Job Classification in Secretariat of the Protector of Citizens, which should ensure performing of all tasks form the sphere of competences stipulated by the Law on the Protector of Citizens and expanded competences stipulated by other laws and enactments. The Draft Law amending the Law on the Protector of Citizens, the adoption of which should have been followed by amendments to the instrument on job classification, was submitted to the National Assembly for adoption in 2012, but was withdrawn from the procedure by the Serbian Government’s decision, which also resulted in delay of amendments to the Bylaw on Job Classification.  PROTECTOR OF CITIZENS  Sasa Jankovic