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Legal framework

When performing the tasks within its remit the Council Office is under obligation to act in compliance with the Government’s principled stands and guidelines relating to the security policy of the Republic of Serbia.

The competences of the NSC Office are determined in the following decrees:

  • The Constitution of the Republic of Serbia (Official Gazette RS, No. 98/06)
  • The Law on the Government (Official Gazette RS, No. 55/05, 71/05, 101/07, 65/08)
  • The Law on the bases regulating security services of the Republic of Serbia ( Official Gazette RS, No. 116/07)
  • The Law on classified information (Official Gazette RS, No. 104/09)
  • The Law on defense (Official Gazette RS, No. 116/07, 88/09, 104/09)
  • The Law on the Armed Forces of the Republic of Serbia (Official Gazette RS, No. 116/07, 88/09)
  • The Law on the Police (Official Gazette, No.101/05, 63/09)
  • The Law on the Security Information Agency (Official Gazette, No. 42/2002, 111/09)
  • The Law on the Military Security Agency and the Military Intelligence Agency ( Official Gazette, No. 88/09)
  • The Law, ratifying the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty on the Security of Information, and the Code of Conduct (Official Gazette, No. 6/2011)
  • The Law on the state administration (Official Gazette RS, No. 79/05)
  • The Law on civil servants (Official Gazette RS, No. 79/05, 81/05-corrigendum, 83/05-corrigendum, 64/07, 67/07 – corrigendum, 116/08)
  • The Law on pays of civil servants and employees (Official Gazette RS, No. 62/06, 63/06-corrigendum, 115/06-corrigendum, 101/07)
  • The Law on the government budget (Official Gazette RS, No 101/11 )
  • The Law on the budgetary system (Official Gazette RS, No. 54/09, 73/10, 101/10 as amended, 101/11 )
  • The Decree on the establishment of the Office of the National Security Council (Official Gazette RS, No. 12/09)
  • The Decree on the security questionnaire forms (Official Gazette, No. 30/10)
  • The Decree on the content, form and manner of providing security clearances for access to classified information (Official Gazette RS, No. 54/10)
  • The Decree on pay rise for civil servants and employees performing activities relating to the protection of classified information at the Office of the National Security Council and Classified Information Protection, and the Ministry of Justice (Official Gazette RS, No. 79/10)
  • The Decree on the content, form and manner of keeping records of access to classified information (Official Gazette RS, No. 89/10)
  • The Decree on the manner of and procedure for marking classified information or documents (Official Gazette RS, No. 8/11)
  • The Decree on special measures for the protection of classified information in information and telecommunication systems (Official Gazette RS, No.53/11)
  • The Decree on special measures for the supervision of handling classified information (Official Gazette RS, No.90/11)
  • The Decree on special meausres for the physicial and technical protection of classified information (Official Gazette RS, No. 097/2011)
  • The Decree on detailed criteria for assigning the “TOP SECRET” and “SECRET” classification levels (Official Gazette RS, No. 46/2013)
  • The Decree on special measures for the protection of classified information relating to the fulfillment of organizational and technical conditions by virtue of contractual relation (Official Gazette RS, No. 63/2013)
  • The Decree on detailed criteria for assigning the “CONFIDENTIAL” and “RESTRICTED” classification levels to information at the Security Information Agency (Official Gazette RS, No. 70/2013)
  • The rule-book on the official ID card and method of operation of authorized persons for the supervision of the Law on Classified Information implementation (Official Gazette RS, No. 85/2013)
  • The Decree on detailed criteria for assigning the “CONFIDENTIAL” and “RESTRICTED“ levels at The Office of the National Security Council and Classified Information Protection ( Official Gazette RS, No. 86/2013)
  • The Decree on detailed criteria for assigning the “CONFIDENTIAL” and “RESTRICTED” levels at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Official Gazette RS“, No. 105/2013)