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High Prosecutorial Council meets tomorrow over assigning prosecutors to TOK

N1 and Danas report that an extraordinary session of the High Prosecutorial Council is scheduled for June 18, with temporary assignment of public prosecutors to the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office among the proposed agenda items. The issue is directly tied to the Venice Commission's follow-up opinion on the Mrdic laws, which singled out the fact that not all prosecutors had been returned to TOK as unresolved.

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Published: June 17, 2026 at 08:05 PM

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:05 PM

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N1
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Extraordinary VST session tomorrow, with assignment of prosecutors to TOK on the agenda

(Sutra vanredna sednica VST, jedna od tačaka i upućivanje tužilaca u TOK)

N1, citing FoNet, writes that an extraordinary session of the High Prosecutorial Council is scheduled for June 18 and that one proposed agenda item is the temporary assignment of public prosecutors to the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office. The outlet links the session to the Venice Commission's follow-up opinion, which identified as a key problem with the Mrdic-law package that not all prosecutors had been assigned to TOK. N1 recalls that in March, because of the laws' application, four prosecutors were left outside TOK: Irena Bjelos, Aleksandar Barac, Aleksandar Isailovic, and Dragoljub Miladinovic; after the Commission's first opinion in May, five prosecutors were assigned, but Irena Bjelos and Aleksandar Barac, who worked on the railway-station canopy case and the Konjuh marijuana seizure case, were not returned.

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Danas
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VST decides tomorrow on assigning prosecutors to TOK, with Venice Commission remarks also on the agenda

(VST sutra odlučuje o upućivanju tužilaca u TOK: Na dnevnom redu i primedbe Venecijanske komisije)

Danas reports that an extraordinary VST session is scheduled for June 18 and that one proposed item is the temporary assignment of public prosecutors to TOK; the article also says Venice Commission remarks are on the agenda. The outlet repeats that the Commission's follow-up opinion singled out as a key problem that not all prosecutors had been assigned to TOK. According to Danas, Irena Bjelos, Aleksandar Barac, Aleksandar Isailovic, and Dragoljub Miladinovic were left outside TOK in March; after the Commission's first opinion in May, five prosecutors were assigned, but Bjelos and Barac, who worked on the canopy and Konjuh cases, were not returned.

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