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Government adopts set of education-related bills

Belgrade, 25 August 2023

At today’s session, the government of the Republic of Serbia adopted a set of education-related bills, the aim of which is to strengthen the educational function of educational institutions and to implement the established set of measures for better prevention and more effective response and action in cases of violence in schools.

The Bill on Amendments to the Law on the Basics of Education, the Bill on Amendments to the Law on Primary Education, and the Bill on Amendments to the Law on Secondary Education were adopted.

In that set, the Proposal for a Law on Amendments to the Law on Textbooks was adopted, which enables the introduction of a national reading book and determines the method of preparing and approving this teaching tool.

At the session, the Decree on the compulsory production and sale of bread made from “T-500” flour was adopted and amended in order to protect the market, i.e., to prevent deformations in the formation of the prices of this commodity, which is very important for the supply of consumers, especially of lower social categories, and that is why the validity period of the Decree was extended until 30 November 2023.

Also, bearing in mind that the price restriction of this type of bread continues, the government made a decision to distribute an additional 42,000 tons from the Directorate for Commodity Reserves to bread producers who use "T-500" flour, which means that they will have up to on that date, a total of 74,000 tons of flour will be distributed.

The Government adopted the proposal for a Decision to amend the Decision on determining agricultural and food products for which a special import duty is payable, whereby the payment of the increased amount of the special duty for certain dairy products was extended until 31 October 2023.

At the session, the Decree on the criteria for awarding incentives to employers who employ newly settled persons in the Republic of Serbia was adopted and amended, which provides for the extension of the deadline for their employment and the excercise of the right to incentives and the payment of incentives by another year.