The Judicial Academy, in cooperation with the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office and the "EU Support for Public Finance Management" project, implemented by UNDP, organized training for the advanced use of the Public Procurement Portal.

The training was held on December 8 and 9, 2025, at the Serbian-Korean Information and Access Center, for representatives of public prosecution offices, the Office for Public Procurement and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The training led to several important results:
• the skills of public prosecutors and police officers were strengthened in the independent use of the Public Procurement Portal;
• the ability of participants to identify and analyze indicators of irregularities was improved;
• improved inter-institutional cooperation, which is crucial for effective prosecution;
• evidence collection practices and early detection mechanisms were strengthened;
• participants gained a clearer understanding of roles and responsibilities, as well as the possibility of accessing data from both institutions.

The most significant result of training and inter-institutional cooperation is the reduction in the number of requests submitted to the Office for Public Procurement by public prosecutors and police officers for monitoring public procurement. Prior to the training, each request required immediate action and an average of two to three weeks to resolve. After training, public prosecutors and police inspectors independently access relevant data on the Portal within just a few minutes.

This led to greater efficiency in law enforcement and a significant reduction in the administrative burden of the Public Procurement Office.

The lecturers at the training were representatives of the Office for Public Procurement:
Mladen Alempijević, Mirjana Gobeljić, Aleksandra Đelević and Marija Petković.

The topics of the training were:
• basics of work and the public part of the Public Procurement Portal;
• access to the Public Procurement Portal database by prosecutor's offices in order to perform tasks within their jurisdiction;
• examples of requests for the implementation of monitoring sent to the Office for Public Procurement by prosecutors' offices and a presentation of the search for the requested data on the Portal.