Scientist Dragan Hajduković called on the Administrative Court panel to, as he said, urgently correct a serious error that, contrary to the law, deprived him of the right to appeal the decision of the jury for the award of the Thirteenth of July Prize.
On Wednesday, the Administrative Court dismissed the lawsuit filed by Hajduković against the jury's decision to award this year's Thirteenth of July Award.
Hajduković said that the Administrative Court stated in its explanation that he had no right to sue, because the decision on the award of the July Thirteenth Award for this year "did not decide on any right of the plaintiff or his legally based interest, so that he could acquire the right to file a lawsuit on that basis."
In an open letter to the Administrative Court, he said that their position, that neither he nor the other candidates have the right to file a lawsuit, is, to put it mildly, wrong.
Hajduković reminded that the Law on State Awards specifies six areas in which the Thirteenth of July Award can be awarded and strictly stipulates that only one award can be awarded in one area.
According to him, the jury was aware of the legal obligation to award three awards in three different fields, but it brazenly and arbitrarily awarded all three awards in the field of culture and artistic creation.
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This, as Hajduković said, is an obvious and undeniable violation of Article 17 of the Law on State Awards.
He said that with this decision, the jury divided the candidates into two groups - candidates from the field of culture and artistic creation "who received two more awards than they deserved" and candidates from all other fields "who were deprived of two awards that they are entitled to by law by the jury's decision."
"Therefore, the jury's decision, contrary to your explanation, does indeed decide on my rights and the rights of all other candidates outside the field of culture and artistic creation," Hajduković's letter to the Administrative Court states.
According to him, the jury's decision is essentially a decision that deprives all candidates outside the field of culture and art of the right to be candidates.
Hajduković said that, although he was officially on the list of candidates for the award, in reality he was not a candidate, due to an illegal decision by the jury.
"I publicly call on the Administrative Court panel, composed of Judge Veljko Vujović, as the president of the panel, Lidija Novović and Svetlana Radošević as members of the panel, to urgently correct the serious mistake that has deprived me and all candidates outside the field of culture and art, contrary to the law, of the right to appeal," Hajduković said.
He said that their silence, after pointing out the mistake, would be a scandal.
"I note that, anticipating the possibility of such decisions, I have initiated other lawsuits in parallel with the Administrative Court and of course I will continue the fight," Hajduković's letter states.
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