Specificities of the property restitution procedure under the law of the Republic of Serbia

Jasna Selaković; Predrag Mirković

doi:10.5937/ptp2403057S

Authors

Jasna Selaković PhD student, Agency for Restitution, Novi Sad, Serbia https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3408-7828
Predrag Mirković University of Bussines Academy in Novi Sad, Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2323-040X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5937/ptp2403057S

Keywords:

property restitution, administrative procedure, special administrative procedure

Abstract

In all the republics of the former Yugoslavia, including in the Republic of Serbia, property relations were highly dynamic, with the answer to the question of who held ownership rights frequently changing. In Serbia, among the last countries in the region, a systemic law regulating property restitution was only passed in 2011 – the Law on the Restitution of Confiscated Property and Compensation. This law, encompassing both substantive civil and procedural administrative law, introduces a special procedure for the return of confiscated property and compensation, in which, in certain areas, significant deviations from the general rules of administrative procedure are evident. This paper examines the specificities of the property restitution procedure as a special administrative procedure and highlights the key differences compared to the general administrative procedure.

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