Spajić: Amendment to the draft law on state property regarding the issue of cemeteries is being withdrawn

Prime Minister Milojko Spajić announced that an amendment to the draft law on state property regarding the issue of cemeteries is being withdrawn.

"In order to contribute to achieving the best solution, this issue will be regulated through a special Law on Cemeteries. The relevant ministry will send an invitation to all interested parties and form a working group that will draft the law by the end of the year," Spajić wrote on the X network.

On January 16, the Government announced that they had considered Amendment 1 to the Bill on Amendments to the Law on State Property, proposed by New Serbian Democracy MP Velimir Đoković, at their session, and concluded that they would submit to the Parliament the opinion of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property accepting the Amendment.

"The amendment proposes that cemeteries in municipal property, instead of being local goods in general use at the disposal of the municipality, be defined as other local goods of general interest at the disposal of the municipality. The Law on State Property defines, among other things, cemeteries as local goods in general use at the disposal of the municipality. In accordance with the same Law, goods in general use are goods that are available to everyone under equal conditions and their use is carried out without special permits or approvals from competent authorities (roads, squares, waterways, ports, airports, city parks, etc.). Since the use of cemeteries requires special permits and approvals from competent authorities, logically they fall under other local goods of general interest, listed in Article 17 of the Law on State Property," they explained at the time.