Round Table: Planning the new status of Serbian towns – new reality and needs
PALGO Center
Round Table Agenda – April 23, 2007, Sava Center, Belgrade
The position of towns in Serbia has not been properly recognized in Serbian legal system yet. Without the adequate legal status of these towns there can be no possibility for the citizens to realize many of their vital needs. These facts impose the necessity to create a public discussion especially considering the provisions of the new Serbian Constitution which offered the possibility for towns to gain new competences besides the ones that Constitution has defined for municipalities.
In a long term the project goals are: to provide further process of decentralization and deconcentration of power in Serbia through establishing new town own competences and by transferring larger number of competences from state to town level which would improve the position of the towns in relation to central administration; to improve the citizens’ position and try to satisfy their needs inflicted by living in a specific urban environment.
These goals are to be achieved through public discussions that should raise public awareness, involving the community of professionals and general public in defining the status of the towns as specific forms of territorial organization and changing their status at the same time.
Organizing the Round Table “Planning the new status of Serbian towns – new reality and needs”
and publishing a book on that issue should be seen in a context of PALGO Center’s intention to organize a series of public discussions about the necessity of regionalization process in Serbia, quintessential for the new territorial organizationof Serbia and in relation to the European integration processes.
This project is supported by the Fund for an Open Society (Belgrade).
Project period: February 1st, 2007 to April 30, 2007
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