Today, the Official Gazette will not publish the decision of the Constitutional Court to abolish the provisions of Article 17, paragraph 1 of the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance (PIO) for technical reasons, but it has been left for the next issue, which will probably be published tomorrow.
"Given your interest in the decision of the Constitutional Court in question, we hereby inform you that, due to the large number of urgent acts that have arrived for publication, and according to the law they have priority in publication (due to the stated urgency), the publication of the decision in question of the Constitutional Court will be postponed for the next issue", was announced to "Vijesti" from that institution.
Acts marked as urgent must be published within 48 hours, including working days, and the Official List received a large number of such acts from the Government.
This decision of the Constitutional Court comes into force from the day of its publication, so that from the following day the provision according to which women could retire at the age of 64 and men at the age of 66, if they had a minimum of 15 years of service, will no longer be valid. The Constitutional Court made a decision stating that men are discriminated against by this norm. The initiative for the review of constitutionality was submitted by the Judicial Council at the proposal of the Association of Judges, because female judges at the age of 64 and male judges at the age of 66 cease to hold office.
Now, the only condition for pension for all citizens will be a full 40 years of insurance experience, until new changes to the law are made.
The Constitutional Court ordered the Government to adopt a new text of the law within 30 days, which must be in accordance with the Court's assessment that women must not be positively discriminated against in relation to men.
With this new proposal, the Government could return the decision to retire with a minimum of 15 years of service, but for men and women to be equal in terms of the number of required years of life, or to state a different explanation why women should have a more privileged status.
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