Montenegro to continue close cooperation with International Management Group and High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Kingdom of Norway is the largest donor to the Montenegrin judiciary reform through the activities of the International Management Group (IMG), and this useful cooperation will continue in the coming period, concluded DPM and Justice Minister Dusko Markovic, Torgeir Hannas, Head of Unit at IMG Belgrade Office and Sven Marius Urke, member of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HJPC).

The judiciary reform support project between HJPC, IMG and Montenegro’s Justice Ministry is financed by the Norwegian Government and it focuses primarily on the misdemeanour system, establishing of the Registry of fines and misdemeanours, and the Justice Information System.

DPM Markovic and his guests discussed IT solutions for the judiciary and the Justice Ministry, and they also agreed that a comprehensive strategy for a re-organisation of the judiciary bodies’ structure should be drafted by the end of 2012.

They also announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the HJPC and IMG in mid-March.