The USAID Public Procurement Improvement Project of the American Agency for International Development, with the support of the Judicial Academy, organized the training of judges of misdemeanor courts in connection with the application of guidelines for effective decision-making in less complex cases with misdemeanors in the field of public procurement.

The training was held on May 20, 2024 at the Prezident Hotel in Novi Sad, and the participants were representatives of the Novi Sad Court of Appeal.

The lecturers at the training were:
-    Saša Varinac, consultant of USAID's Public Procurement Improvement Project,
-    Marija Vuković Stanković, consultant of the USAID Project for the Improvement of Public Procurement, retired judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals and
-    Branka Mitrović, judge of the Criminal Appellate Court, Department in Kragujevac.

The training covered the following topics:
-    Basics of the Law on Public Procurement ("Official Gazette of RS" no. 91/2019 and 92/2023) with reference to the amendments that entered into force on January 1, 2024. years,
-    Presentation of Guidelines for decision-making in cases of outdated and decriminalized offenses from the Law on Public Procurement - with models of court decisions,
-    Decriminalized misdemeanors in the field of public procurement and statute of limitations of the misdemeanor procedure,
-    General procedural and legal aspects of the misdemeanor procedure for misdemeanors that are not a complex factual and legal issue,
-    Guidelines for dealing with individual offenses that are not a complex factual and legal issue.