Strategy for integrated border management

communications, including those at border crossings, and it also performs
works of geodesic engineering.
• Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government comprises
the state inspection service which supervises the work of all administrative
bodies.
• Ministry of Justice has a role in the process of integrated border
management to improve co-operation on bilateral, regional, and international
levels, by applying bilateral and multilateral conventions which regulate crossborder
co-operation.
• Ministry of Trade, Tourism, and Services undertakes measures on creating
the conditions for the free trade of goods and services on one hand, and on
suppressing illegal activities on the other hand, by institutional and concrete
measures of trade inspection in its area of the competences within internal
turnover of goods. The trade inspection informs foreign companies on
conditions of the internal turnover of goods and on necessary documentation
regarding the quality of industrial non-alimentary products and products’
safety; and also controls implementation of these regulations. The Ministry
performs the tasks of the inspection surveillance on the implementation of the
regulations in the area of tourism and catering-tourist through the Tourist
Inspection Service.
• Ministry of International Economic Relations is competent for improving
the international economic relations, politics and foreign trade regime, foreign
investments, coordination of activities in the field of planning, procuring, and
using donations and other forms of aid from abroad. The Ministry of
International Economic Relations conducts process of negotiations referring
to the membership of the Republic of Serbia with the World Trade
Organization, and trade negotiations with the European Union. It is important
to note that the Ministry of International Economic Relations co-operates
closely with business people of Serbia, including foreign investors, directly or
through their associations.
• Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection which adopts solutions
and issues licences in connection with cross-border turnover of poison and
other dangerous materials, in compliance with international obligations and
national legislature. Also, this Ministry performs duties of ecological inspection
and supervision, controlling circulation of sources of ionic radiation, toxic
matters, wastes, protected plants and animal species, substances that
damage the ozone layer.
• Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Police, aimed at better and
efficient control of entering the foreigners into the territory of the Republic of
Serbia in order to be employed, performs duties of the state office which
among other things are related to employment of the foreigners in the territory
of the Republic of Serbia and issuing work permits, application of the
international conventions and other international documents in the field of
employment and migrations.
• The EU Integration Office is the Government body, which performs duties
related to the European integration and offers expert help to the Government
and ministries and competent organisations in adjusting regulations according
to the EU standards.