| Constitutional Court Уставни суд | |
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 Constitutional Court Building | |
| Established | 9 April 1963 |
| Jurisdiction | Serbia |
| Location | Main Post Office Palace(southern wing),Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 15,Belgrade |
| Composition method | Parliament selection (5 members) Supreme Court selection (5 members) Presidential selection (5 members) |
| Authorised by | Constitution |
| Judge term length | 9 years |
| Number of positions | 15 |
| Website | www |
| President | |
| Currently | Snežana Marković |
| Since | 26 January 2020 |
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TheConstitutional Court (Serbian:Уставни суд,romanized: Ustavni sud) is the court authorized to performjudicial review inSerbia. It rules on whether the laws, decrees or other bills enacted by the Serbian authorities are in conformity with theConstitution. It is not considered as part of the judicial branch, but a courtsui generis.[1]
The seat of the Constitutional Court is at the southern wing of theMain Post Office Palace inBelgrade. It consists of 15 judges, one of them being President of the Court.[2]
The Constitutional Court of theSocialist Republic of Serbia (then part ofSFR Yugoslavia) was established by the Constitution of Socialist Republic of Serbia, adopted on 9 April 1963. The Court was to act as an independent body designated to protect constitutionality and legality in accordance with the Constitution and within the framework of the rights and duties proscribed by the Constitution. The "Constitutional Law of the Socialist Republic of Serbia", enacted on 25 December 1963, defined jurisdiction andadjudications before the Constitutional Court and legal effects of its decisions in a more specific manner. The Constitutional Court commenced its work on 15 February 1964.
The Constitutional Court has upon proclamation of the1990 Constitution acted within the framework of absence of division of powers, where theNational Assembly was the highest body of state power. The Constitutional Court has through its presence and work contributed to the importance and contribution in preservation of the constitutional principles and legality.[3]
The Constitutional Court consists of 15 judges. Five of them are appointed by thePresident of the Republic, five by theNational Assembly, and five are appointed at the General Session of theSupreme Court. Judges are elected to the 9-year term. The candidate for post of a constitutional court judge have to be accomplished jurist of at least 40 years of age and with at least 15 years of experience injurisprudence. One person can be elected maximum of two times. After the election, the judges take oath before thePresident of the National Assembly.
The term of the Constitutional Court judge ends after 9 years since the election, or by resignation, by retirement or byimpeachment. A constitutional court judge may not perform any other public office or any other job at all, except for being a professor at the law schools of one of theuniversities in Serbia. A constitutional court judge enjoysimmunity from prosecution.[2]
Composition as of 2022[update] (year of election in the parenthesis):[4]
As of 2022, two seats are vacant.
| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office |
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| 1 |  | Petar Relić | 26 June 1963 | 31 July 1971 |
| 2 | | Jovan Đorđević | 15 July 1971 | 31 December 1979 |
| 3 | | Najdan Pašić | 1 January 1980 | 14 October 1984 |
| 4 | | Radoslav Ratković | 18 September 1984 | 7 November 1986 |
| 5 | | Đurđe Seničić | 5 May 1987 | 3 June 1989 |
| 6 | | Miodrag Bogdanović | 3 June 1988 | 26 June 1990 |
| 7 | | Balša Špadijer | 7 August 1990 | 30 June 1996 |
| 8 | | Ratko Butulija[a] | 30 June 1996 | 17 December 2001 |
| – | | Verona Ádám Bokros | 17 December 2001 | 20 June 2002 |
| 9 | | Slobodan Vučetić | 20 June 2002 | 10 October 2006 |
| – | | Verona Ádám Bokros | 10 October 2006 | 10 April 2007 |
| – | | Milutin Đuričić | 10 April 2007 | 10 October 2007 |
| – | | Dragica Marjanović | 10 October 2007 | 26 December 2007 |
| 10 | | Bosa Nenadić | 26 December 2007 | 23 December 2010 |
| – | | Agneš Kartag-Odri | 23 December 2010 | 3 February 2011 |
| 11 | | Dragiša Slijepčević | 3 February 2011 | 3 February 2014 |
| 12 | | Vesna Ilić-Prelić | 3 February 2014 | 12 December 2016 |
| – | | Goran Ilić | 12 December 2016 | 26 January 2017 |
| (12) | | Vesna Ilić-Prelić | 26 January 2017 | 26 January 2020 |
| 13 | | Snežana Marković | 26 January 2020 | Incumbent |
The Library of the Constitutional Court is a specialized law library. The library is in charge of collecting, storing, cataloguing, and circulating literature from different branches of law, with special regard to constitutional legislation. The library is in possession of a large collection of monographs, serial publications, and collections of papers. In addition, it has an electronic database of legal acts.
The Constitutional Court Library owns a valuable collection of legal acts issued in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Library cooperates with theNational Library of Serbia,Belgrade City Library, and libraries of similar profile.[7]
This article incorporates text from the Constitutional Court of Serbia official site ([1]), which is in the public domain, because it is a law, decree, regulation or official material of aRepublic of Serbia state body or a body performing public functions, under the terms ofArticle 6, Paragraph 2 ofSerbian copyright law. SeeCopyright.
