AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION AS A CONDITION OF ACCESSION REPUBLIC OF SERBIA IN EUROPEAN UNION Cover Image

PROMENA USTAVA KAO USLOV PRISTUPANJA REPUBLIKE SRBIJE EVROPSKOJ UNIJI
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION AS A CONDITION OF ACCESSION REPUBLIC OF SERBIA IN EUROPEAN UNION

Author(s): Emir Bećirović
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: Интернационални Универзитет у Новом Пазару
Keywords: constitution changes;harmonization;accession to the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The Republic of Serbia is in the EU accession process. Bearing in mind that the state wishing to join must provide a full and proper implementation of the heritage of EU in their territory, so there is a need that the Serbian Constitution should be amended in order to fulfill this obligation. Serbian Constitution in Article 194 provided that the Constitution is the highest legal act in one country. That the ratified international treaties and generally accepted rules of international law, part of the legal order of the Republic of Serbia. Ratified international treaties may not be contrary to the Constitution. This means that the Treaty of Accession to the European Union and the obligations stemming from membership shall be in accordance with the Serbian Constitution. Since the obligations known, it is clear that the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia have to be changed.

  • Issue Year: 4/2016
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 139-147
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian