Court: Decree on administrative crossings-unconstitutional

BELGRADE - The decree on the control of crossings along the administrative line with the autonomous province of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) is not in line with Serbia's Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Serbia has ascertained.

The Constitutional Court made the decision on March 26, but refused the motion for terminating the implementation of individual documents and actions arising from the decree, it was published on the Court's website.

The Serbian government adopted the decree on the control of crossings along the administrative line with the autonomous province of KiM on December 23, 2011, and the motion for declaring it unconstitutional was submitted by 25 MPs, 21 of whom belong to the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).

In the reasoning behind the motion, they said that the decree constituted a severe violation of the unity and territorial integrity of Serbia.

On the same day, the Constitutional Court rejected the motion for reviewing the constitutionality of the decision to accept the report on the EU-facilitated political and technical dialogue with the interim institutions of self-government in Pristina.

The Court also rejected the motion for reviewing the constitutionality of the government's conclusions delivered on April 22, 2013, with which it accepted the First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalization of Relations between Belgrade and Pristina (Brussels agreement).