The Judicial Academy, as part of a joint project with the OSCE Mission in Serbia, on December 13, 2024, in the premises of the Judicial Academy in Kragujevac, organized a seminar "Presentation of the amended Manual for the application of the principle of opportunities for criminal prosecution". The seminar was attended by chief public prosecutors, public prosecutors, assistant prosecutors, as well as beneficiaries of the initial training of the Judicial Academy from the territory of the Kragujevac appeal.

The topics covered at this seminar were:

• Previous experiences and observed problems in the application of the principle of opportunities for criminal prosecution and ways to overcome them;
• Conditions for application, subjects of proposal, proposal and decisions on the proposal for the application of the principle of opportunities for criminal prosecution;
• Obligations of the suspect in case of postponement of criminal prosecution: concept, types, purpose, choice of type of obligation, method and deadline of execution, records and supervision of the execution of obligations from the order on postponement of criminal prosecution;
• The decision on the rejection of the criminal complaint due to the use of the principle of the opportunity of criminal prosecution - adoption, content, delivery, instructions and legal effect in terms of the principlene bis in idem.

The lecturers at the seminar were:

• Dr. Jasmina Kiurski, prosecutor in the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office;
• Dr. Stanko Bejatović, retired professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Kragujevac;
• Dr. Goran Ilić, prosecutor in the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office.