At today’s 51^st meeting of the Administrative Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro of the 25^th Convocation, the Committee gave consent to the Rulebook on Internal Organisation and Systematisation of the State Election Commission Service, number 83 of 20 February 2015. In line with Article 67 paragraph 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Montenegro, Mr Budimir Šaranović, President of the State Election Commission and Mr Milisav Ćorić, Secretary of the State Election Commission participated in the meeting.

Additionally, the Administrative Committee established a Proposal for the Decision on appointing one deputy member of the State Election Commission. Upon the proposal of the MP Group of the Socialist People’s Party, the Committee decided to propose to the Parliament of Montenegro to appoint Mr Borislav Globarević for a deputy member of the State Election Commission.

Upon the proposal of Vice President of the Parliament Mr Milutina Simović, the Committee decided to appoint Mr Miodrag Kankaraš, specialist of the production for education and informing of the public, for advisor to the Vice President of the Parliament of Montenegro.

Within the item of the agenda “current issues”, the Committee members were informed about the response by the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica no. 00-63-14/15-2/4 of 27 February 2015 regarding the dismissal of one members of the Council of the Agency for Electronic Media, and with regard to that, by a majority of votes, decided to consider the initiative following the completion of the judicial proceeding.

The Committee members were also informed about the Ruling by the Administrative Court of Montenegro no. 119/15 of 23 January 2015 with regard to initiation of the administrative procedure for the purpose of nullifying the Decision of the Parliament of Montenegro on appointing one member of the Council of the Agency for Electronic Media, by which the Administrative Court of Montenegro declared itself as non-competent for acting in that legal issue.

In the continuation of the meeting, the Committee considered the proposal by MP Group of Independent MPs, no. 00-63-14/15-14/2 of 23 January 2015, on participation of members of MP Group of Independent MPs in the work of working bodies of the Parliament of Montenegro.

The Committee was introduced to Information of engaged persons in working bodies and working groups in the Parliament of Montenegro, and assessed that it was necessary from the Secretary General of the Parliament of Montenegro to ask an additional information on the application of the existing Decision on determining reimbursement for the work of scientific and professional consultants in the Parliament of Montenegro, individually for each of the working bodies of the Parliament which engaged so far scientific and professional consultants.

The Committee was also presented with the Request by MP Mr Rešad Sijarić for professional performance of his MP function and decided to reach and corresponding decision.

At the end of the meeting, the Committee was informed on Information on reached decision from the Committee’s competences between two meetings.