Press release from 92nd Cabinet session

Today's Cabinet also passed the Draft Law Amending the Law on State Symbols and the Statehood Day of Montenegro, which stipulates, inter alia, the obligation to keep the flag permanently on the buildings of local self-government and public institutions founded by the State or the municipality. as to penal provisions, the draft law is harmonised with the Draft Law Amending the Law prescribing fines for misdemeanors. For violations of legal provisions, fines of EUR 1,000 to EUR 20,000 are imposed for a legal entity, from EUR 300 to EUR 2,000 for a responsible person in a legal entity and a natural person, while a fine of EUR 300 to EUR 6,000 is imposed on entrepreneurs. Among other things, a fine of EUR 300 to EUR 2,000 will be imposed on a natural person if they do not rise during the performance of the anthem.

The Government passed the Regulation on prohibited or allowed means of use, production and placing on the market of chemicals that represent an unacceptable risk to human health and the environment, thus bringing into national legislation the European Union's provisions defining that production, placing on the market and the use of these substances need to be regulated by full or partial prohibitions or other restrictions based on risk assessment.

The Cabinet passed the Decision on the determination of goods whose export is prohibited and is intended for the deprivation of life of persons and goods whose use may subject a person to torture and goods whose import and export are not prohibited and can be used for the killing of persons by injecting a deadly injection (anesthetic agents with barbiturates with short-term or mid-term action). This document was adopted in order to fulfill the undertaken obligations, harmonise with the EU standards in this area, improve the normative prerequisites for establishing state control in order to protect the security and foreign policy interests of Montenegro, international credibility and integrity.

Today's session passed the information on the Finalisation of the Protection Study for Ulcinj Salina project. It was stated that the study will be forwarded to the Municipality of Ulcinj for further consideration in order to proclaim the area a nature park.

At the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government recalled Montenegro’s Honorary Consul Christodoulos Damianou from Nicosia, Cyprys, since he, on his own initiative and without prior instructions or approval of the Ministry, supported and co-organised the promotion of the programme of economic citizenship of Montenegro in Moscow and Kiev, although the programme has not yet passed through the appropriate Government’s procedures. The former Honorary Consul represented his company Eurofast as an intermediary in the aforementioned countries, which is incompatible with his jurisdiction of the Honorary Consul in Cyprus.

"The Government is sending a clear message that it will not allow this programme to be compromised from any address," said Prime Minister Duško Marković concluding the discussion on this item of the agenda.

PUBLIC RELATIONS SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MONTENEGRO