Analysis of Victims’ Rights and Services in Serbia and their Alignment with EU Directive 2012/29/EU
According to Serbia’s accession action plan for chapter 23, Serbia intends to strengthen procedural safeguards in line with European Union (EU) standards to ensure the rights, support, and protection of victims of crime and injured parties in accor...
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/966041511259504946/Analysis-of-victims-rights-and-services-in-Serbia-and-their-alignment-with-EU-Directive-2012-29-EU http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28963 |
| Summary: | According to Serbia’s accession action
plan for chapter 23, Serbia intends to strengthen procedural
safeguards in line with European Union (EU) standards to
ensure the rights, support, and protection of victims of
crime and injured parties in accordance with Directive
2012-29-EU. The current analysis will support that process
by assessing how Serbia aligns in practice with the EU
Directive. The ultimate objective of the project is to
assist the Serbian Government, as part of its accession
process, to develop a national system of victim support
services which complies with EU Directive 2012-29 EU. This
report will therefore map and assess which institutions in
Serbia are providing victim support services and their
levels of quality and access. Also, it will document any
existing guidelines and provision in police and prosecution
offices and courts, as well as other services and
non-government organizations (NGOs). The analysis was
requested by Serbian authorities to support the
implementation of the chapter 23 accession action plan and
to ensure that victims have equitable access to justice
services and that victims’ rights are upheld through the
justice process. Since then the European continent has set
the scene for the continuous development of a legal
framework for the protection of victims of crime, through
the adoption of policy decisions and legal instruments. |
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