Serbia - 2009 Party Law

Title Article 25 Rejection of the Application for Registration
Section III. Entry into the Registry
Article

25

Within the period not longer than 30 days and not shorter than 15 days, the Ministry invites the applicant to eliminate the following:
1) if the name of the political party is identical to the name of the political party registered or properly applied for entry into the Registry, namely, if the political party had been deleted from the Registry under the condition that no more than four years expired since the date of its deletion, namely, if the name of the party is such that it shall cause confusion in the public or shall violate moral feelings of citizens;
2) if the application had been submitted by an unauthorized person, namely, if proper documents had not been enclosed to the application;
3) if the application, Articles of Association, programme and statute of the political party do not contain all the data prescribed by this law, namely, if the application had not been submitted in the adequate form, or if the statements of the founders had not been provided in the adequate form or if they do not contain verification of signatures.

If the applicant does not eliminate the failures within the specified term, the Ministry shall reject the application by means of a relevant decision.
The decision prescribed in paragraph 2 of this Article is final and no administrative proceedings may be initiated against it.

 

Categories - External oversight (Sanctions)
- External oversight (Subject of monitoring)
- External oversight (Type of authority)
- Extra-parliamentary party (Registration reqs.)