Montenegro's Government adopts intelligence and security legislation for national security sector reform

Podgorica, Montenegro (6 March 2014) – Montenegro's Cabinet approved the Law on basic principles of intelligence and security sector in Montenegro with the aim of boosting capacity of tackling national and transnational security challenges, risks and threats and becoming part of a collective security system, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Duško Marković told the press conference following the Cabinet meeting.

This measure, in DPM Marković’s words, is part of the intelligence and security sector reform, envisaged as a short-term and urgent measure for creating the legal framework for developing an efficient security system.

The law stipulates the establishment of national coordinating bodies that should link all the institutions dealing with security and defence issues in order to fully valorise intelligence and security data.

The document also envisages the setting up of a committee for national security that would supervise the work of all institutions within the intelligence and security sector, as well as the establishment of a bureau responsible for operative coordination of the sector's activities, Minister Marković explained.

This is the first time this area is regulated by the law and it lays a solid foundation for building an integrated intelligence and security sector in Montenegro, Deputy Prime Minister Marković underlined.