Strategy for integrated border management

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro comprises
diplomatic-consular legations which are, among other things, authorised to
issue visas to foreign subjects who intend to stay on the territory of the SCG
or transit through the territory of SCG. This Ministry is also authorised to hold
negotiations and contract agreements with neighbouring countries on state
borders, and to conclude and implement bilateral agreements on marking,
renewal, or maintenance of border lines and border markings at determined
state border points.
• Ministry of Human and Minorities Rights of Serbia and Montenegro is
authorised to perform duties related to realization and follow-up of the
Constitutional Charter of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, the
Charter of Human and Minorities Rights and Civic Liberties, international
contracts and laws, guaranteed rights and freedoms of man and citizen, and
rights of national minorities; it follows the realization of the rights of refugees
as regulated by international multilateral and bilateral agreements; it performs
duties related to extradition and provides international legal help; it
coordinates activities connected to contracting and following of international
agreements in the field of readmission, and other duties as regulated by law.
• Ministry of Health performs duties in state administration with sanitary
inspectors in compliance with currently lawful and legal regulations. In future
by adopting the appropriate lawful regulations, the Ministry of Health will be
responsible only in emergency cases of controlling infectious diseases and
the procedures for controlling the contagions. When the prevention of
spreading of disease in country and towards neighbouring countries is
needed, it’s necessary to have clear, efficient and easy implemented plan and
procedures for those cases. Especially important co-operation between
border services and this Ministry will be in combating the drugs.
• Ministry of Capital Investment within which are several sectors that are
supporting the integrated border management and that are competent in this
area, first of all in the position of foreign shippers while transporting the goods
and passengers through the territory of the Republic of Serbia, on the
waterways where the international and inter-state navigable regime are in
effect. Parts of the Sector for the river traffic and navigation security are
organisational units of the Port Authority which are also competent in
controlling the international traffic on international waterways. Likewise, the
Sector for the road traffic and the Sector for the air traffic are playing an
important part in control of trans-border traffic, for it controls, through its
inspection bodies, traffic of passengers and goods over the border crossings
at the blue border.
To regulate the traffic between two states the bilateral agreements are
needed. If there is no Agreement, then the competent Ministry for the traffic,
in this case Ministry of Capital Investment starts the procedure for its signing
(its own initiative or initiative of the other part interested in regulating the cross
border traffic). The Ministry of Capital Investment co-ordinates other
competent state authorities on drafting agreements on regulating cross border
traffic (for all types of the traffic), prepares Draft agreements and Proposed
guidelines for negotiations, as well as other materials necessary to start
negotiations with other country in order to sign bilateral agreements on
regulating cross border traffic.
The Ministry of Capital Investment also performs duties of state administration
that refer to determination of conditions for the construction of structures and