Organization „Transparency Serbia“ from Belgrade, and Council for monitoring of implementation of Ethical Code from Mladenovac invite you to attend

Press conference

Which will be held on March 24 2008. (Monday), with the beginning at 11 o'clock, in small room of Municipality Parliament of Mladenovac

Agenda:

11.00 – 11.15 Monitoring of election campaign financing and of presentations of candidates at local elections in Serbia and Mladenovac – Nemanja Nenadić, Program Director of organization Transparency Serbia

11.15 – 11.25 Local elections and implementation of Ethical Code of local municipality officials – Representative of Council for monitoring of implementation of Ethical Code of municipality Mladenovac

11.25 – 11.35 Presentations of activities which will be conducted as part of the project in Mladenovac

Subjects of the conference:

This press conference announces project of Monitoring of election campaign at local elections which will be held on May 11. This project is implemented by organization Transparency Serbia, in cooperation with partners (in Mladenovac with Nemanja Milanovic) and media in 8 cities and municipalities of Serbia , among which is Mladenovac.

This project will cover following areas:

Election campaign financing (which includes gathering and analysis of data on election campaign participants' activities, media advertising, promotional gatherings, possible use of public resources, allocation of budget assets, control of reports on campaign financing etc.). At press conference we will point out to problems in financing of election campaigns in Serbia , and especially to those related to local elections.

Ways of candidate and party promotions, especially in the light of Ethical Code of local officials adopted by almost all municipalities and cities in Serbia. This matter is of special importance for municipality of Mladenovac , considering that it is only one of six municipalities that not only adopted Code, but also formed parliamentary body in charge for its implementation.

On this occasion we will present promotional materials that will be distributed to citizens and deputy candidates and direct citizens, party representatives, and representatives of local municipality in what way can they contact with Transparency Serbia and Nemanja Milanovic, to share with us their information and suspicions on financing and conducting of election campaign and how to jointly find the best solutions for the citizens.