2019
Stevo Muk in Vijesti’s TV show ’’Načisto’’
22. 11. 2019.
Watch a full video of Petar Komnenić’s TV show ’’Načisto’’ broadcasted on TV Vijesti, featuring Stevo Muk, president of the Managing Board at Institute Alternative. Remarks published in the European Commission’s non-paper concerning chapters 23 and 24 were discussed, focusing on judiciary. Beside Stevo, guests of the show aired on 21 November 2019 were Ana…
IA met with the TAIEX peer-review mission on public procurement
21. 11. 2019.
Ana Đurnić, public policy researcher at Institute Alternative (IA), attended the meeting with the TAIEX experts within their Case-based Peer-review mission on public procurement. The objective of this peer-review mission was to provide the European Commission and Montenegro with an assessment of the vulnerable areas in public procurement and how the oversight system is effectively…
Proposed Law on Free Access to Information Unsustainable in Montenegrin Context
18. 11. 2019.
Adoption of the Draft Law on Free Access to Information in proposed form would take us 15 years backwards. We have been moving in this direction for years, facing administrative silence, long-standing procedures in Agency for Free Access to Information and average duration of the procedures in Administrative Court that are longer than 13 months.…
IA at the Third SIGMA Regional Conference on Public Procurement
10. 11. 2019.
Ana Đurnić, Public Policy Researcher at the Institute Alternative, participated at the Third Regional Conference on Public Procurement, held on 6-7 November 2019, in Tbilsi, Georgia. Within the second panel on the role of civil society in monitoring the implementation of procurement rules, Ana spoke about the way of functioning public procurement system in Montenegro,…
Five NGOs submitted comments on the Draft Law on Free Access to Information
06. 11. 2019.
Five non-governmental organisations submitted to the Ministry of Public Administration numerous comments to the Draft Law on Free Access to Information, as they proposed amendments contrary to the Constitution of Montenegro, international conventions, as well as the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. The draft introduces systematic restrictions on access to information, new…
Special State Prosecutor Rutović rejects criminal charge against Judicial Council
28. 10. 2019.
The Special State Prosecutor, Mr. Veljko Rutović, rejected the criminal charge submitted by the three non-governmental organisations the Human Rights Action (HRA), Network for the Affirmation of the NGO Sector (MANS) and Institute Alternative (IA) on 13 September 2019 against members of the Judicial Council of Montenegro based on suspicions that, in July 2019, the…