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December 27th 2005, Security Board unanimously adopted BIA reports

February 27, 2004, Security Board unanimously adopted BIA reports

July 11, 2003, BIA Report submitted to the Security Board

December 27, 2005, Security Board unanimously adopted BIA reports


On December 27th, 2005 the Defense and Security Council of the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia unanimously adopted the Report on the activities of the BIA for the period from July to December 2005, and the Report on the security situation in the Republic of Serbia.

February 27, Security Board unanimously adopted BIA reports

Official statement:

On February 27th, 2004 a session of the Defense and Security Council of the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia was held in the headquarters of the Security-Information Agency, attended by members of all parliamentary parties.
After informing members of the Council about the Report on the work of the BIA for the period June-December 2003, and about the Report on the security situation in the Republic of Serbia, the Chairman of the Council, Milorad Mircic- who was managing the work of the session - opened a debate on these topics and on the work of the Agency in general.
During a seven-hour debate, in which all members of the Council participated, BIA representatives gave detailed information on certain segments of the stated reports, in accordance with the expressed interests of the MPs. Furthermore, they answered a large number of questions relating to the status, activities and work of the Agency, such as: key directions of activities and results, methodology of work, number and structure of applied special methods, ways and means of implementing court control, relations between the Agency and other security services and bodies, international cooperation, the economical and other status of Agency members, results of the privatization process, changes in the personnel structure after October 5th, 2000 in the Agency headquarters and Agency centers, the status and participation of the Agency in the operation "Sablja" ("Sword"), activities on the reform of the security system.
After a detailed discussion on these and other matters of importance for the work and parliamentary control of the BIA, members of the Council unanimously adopted the reports on the work of the BIA and on the security situation, as well as the conclusions regarding the necessity of further joint efforts on the creating of conditions for the defining of legal frameworks for the constant improvement of the quality of work in the Agency, and for the constructive and legal implementation of parliamentary control.

July 11, 2003 BIA Report submitted to the Security Board

Excerpt from daily "Blic" from July 11, 2003

Belgrade - The Security Board of the Serbian Assembly examined at Friday Information about security situation on the territory of Serbia, Report about activity of Security Information Agency (BIA), structure and way of functioning of the Agency, as well as joint activities of military, police and BIA - stated to the SRNA Agency the president of the board, Dragan Sutanovac.
Estimating the session of the Board as "historical", he said that Information about the security situation on the territory of Serbia and Report about six months work of BIA had been done maximum correctly and very professionally. "We have spent more than two and half hours in the conversation with the director of BIA, Misa Milicevic, and I am very pleased with the way he presented his observations and other information to the resent members of Parliament" - emphasized Sutanovac. According to his words, it is in the interest of the state of Serbia and BIA to take off the mystification of this service, keeping in mind that it is government's agency which activities and work are very regulated by the law and which is "one of the pillars of security structures in Serbia". At the session, conversation about structure of BIA, the way of its functioning, its contacts with international representatives, joint actions of military, MUP and BIA, took part - added Sutanovac.