Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Serbia

Communication | Doc. 15985 | 13 May 2024

Author(s):

Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

Contents

1List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia

2Information on national selection procedure for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Appendix 1– Curriculum vitae of Mateja DUROVIĆ

Appendix 2– Curriculum vitae of Vladimir MARINKOV

Appendix 3– Curriculum vitae of Nataša PLAVŠIĆ

1 List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia

Letter from Ms Maja Popović, Minister of Justice, to Ms Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 9 March 2024

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The Republic of Serbia proposed (in alphabetical order) as candidates for the European Court of Human Rights:

1 Mr Mateja Durović, Professor at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London;

2 Mr Vladimir Marinkov, Lawyer in Belgrade;

3 Ms Natasa Plavsić, Judge of the Constitutional Court.

2 Information on national selection procedure for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights

At the meeting held on 1 February 2024, the Commission for the Conduct of Elections and the Drafting of Proposals for the Three Candidates for the Election of a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia determined that it is necessary to establish a new list of candidates, and it was deemed most expedient to send an inquiry to the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe asking whether it is possible to conduct an Invitation for the Amendment of the Candidates List for the Election of a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia and whether the deadline for submitting applications can be shortened from 30 to 15 days in the Invitation for Amendments, as the list of candidates was rejected at the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 9 October 2023.

Furthermore, on 17 January 2024, the election procedure was postponed due to the withdrawal of one of the proposed candidates.

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At the meeting held on 6 February 2024, the Commission for the Conduct of Elections and the Drafting of Proposals for the Three Candidates for the Election of a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia harmonized the text of the Invitation to Amendments to the List for the proposal of three candidates for the election of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia, and the Application for the Invitation.

The meeting of the Commission for the Conduct of Elections and the Drafting of Proposals for the Three Candidates for the Election of a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia, established by the Decision of the Minister responsible for Justice No. 119-01-173/2022-09 dated 29 December 2022, was held at the premises of the Ministry of Justice at Nemanjina Street No. 22-26, on Thursday, 29 February 2024, at 10:00.

The meeting was attended by the Vladimir Vinš, president of the Commission, Zvezdana Lutovac, Branko Stamenković, Olivera Stanimirović and PhD Aleksandar Gajić, members of the Commission, then Maja Matija Ristić, senior advisor in the Ministry of Justice and State Administration and Matija Šoškić, secretary of the Commission.

The agenda of the Commission included: Opening and determining the formal fulfillment of the conditions of the received applications and miscellaneous matters.

The commission determined:

• that 7 applications have been received and that they are all timely;
• that all 7 applications are allowed;
• that all 7 applications are complete.

The participants in the Invitation, the applicants are:

1 Bojan Petrović

2 Mitjana Drenovak lvanović

3 Katarina Nedeljković

4 Marija Jovanović

5 Branislava Isailović

6 Mateja Durović

7 Tanasije Marinković

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Based on Article 11, point 5 of the Commission's Work Methodology for conducting elections and drafting proposals for three candidates for the election of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia, Matija Šoškić, the Secretary of the Commission, informed about the place, day and time of the English language test by e-mail and by telephone on 29 February 2024, all candidates whose applications meet all the formal conditions stipulated in the Invitation to Amendments to the Iist for nominating three candidates for the election of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia, and who are obliged to take the knowledge test of a foreign language, where all participants in the Invitation, on the same day, confirmed verbally and via e-mail the receipt of the invitation to check their knowledge of a foreign language.

At the meeting held on 5 March 2024, the Commission established the proposed list of candidates for the election of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights from the Republic of Serbia (in alphabetical order):

1 PhD Mateja Durović, Professor at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King' s College London;

2 Vladimir Marinkov, Lawyer in Belgrade;

3 PhD Natasa Plavsić, Judge of the Constitutional Court.

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Appendix 1 – Curriculum vitae of Mateja DUROVIĆ

I. Personal details

Name, forename: DUROVIĆ, Mateja

Sex: Male

Date and place of birth: 26 September 1984 in Belgrade

Nationality: Serbian

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

My fruitful legal education and many years of professional experience, both at leading universities in the world and in legal practice, prove that I am an internationally recognised legal expert who possesses advanced knowledge of the European system of human rights protection, public international law and private international law.

Education

• PhD in Law (2014) – European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law, Italy (EUI Scholarship of Excellence);
• LLM – Master in Comparative, European and International Laws (2010) – European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law, Italy;
• LLM – Master in Law (2009) – University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Scholarship of the University of Cambridge/Chevening);
• LLB – Bachelor of Laws (2007) – University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Belgrade, Serbia, international law pathway, graduated with average grade 10,00 (out of 10,00), as the best student of the cohort and the first graduated student of the generation, University of Belgrade’s prize for the best student.
• Third Belgrade Highschool (2003) – finished with average grade 5,00 (out of 5,00), prize for the best student of the cohort.

Additional education

• Researcher in Law at School of Law, Stanford University, United States (2011);
• Researcher in Law at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany (2010);
• Summer School, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Georgetown University, United States (2007);
• Summer School, Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland (2006);
• Summer School, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2006).

Grants, Scholarships and Prizes

• Principal Investigator at the UK's National Research Centre in Protecting Citizens Online – interdisciplinary project on commercialisation of data, GBP 8.6 million – total value; (July 2020 – June 2023)
• Co-Investigator of The Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) for the project on Private Law and Human Rights (2022-23)
• Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator at several UK/EU funded scientific projects;
• Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy since 2018;
• EUI Scholarship of Excellence;
• University of Cambridge/Chevening Scholarship;
• Bourse d’Excellence Eiffel;
• Second prize at the regional competition – simulation of European Court of Human Rights, 2nd place, in 2007;
• Best and first graduated student of the generation at Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade (2007).

III. Relevant professional activities

Main Professional Activities

School of Law, King’s College London, UK (since July 2017)

• Full Professor of Law, Chair in Law and Technology, one of twenty best law schools in the World. (I joined King’s in July 2017 as a Lecturer in Law – Assistant Professor; in 2019 I was promoted into Reader in Law – Associate Professor; and in 2023 I became Full Professor of Law – Chair in Law and Technology);
• Co-Director of King’s Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society (TELOS);
• Director of King’s Centre for Digital Law;
• Member of King’s Artificial Intelligence Institute.

School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (2015 – 2017)

• Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Mooting.

Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence (2013 – 2015)

• Academic Assistant and Researcher of Professor Hans W. Micklitz.

Legal service of the European Commission, Brussels (2012 – 2013)

• Member of the SOC team (Employment and social affairs, education and culture, health and consumer protection).

Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence (2009 – 2013)

• Researcher in Law.

Law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel (2007 – 2009)

• Jurist.

Additional Professional Activities

University of Belgrade, Serbia:

• Faculty of Economics: Permanent Visiting Professor of Law (Since 2020);
• Faculty of Law: Visiting Professor of Law (2023, 2024)

Leading global Universities:

• Invited Visiting Professor of Law at following Universities: Lausanne (2024, 2023), Bocconi (2024), Athens (2024), Singapore Management University (2024, 2021), Lodz (2022, 2023), Verona (2023), Galway (2022); Bologna (2022), Torino (2022, 2021), UC Lyon (2021, 2020), Maceratta (2020), City University Hong Kong (2019), Sciences Po Paris (2019), UC Lille (2017), Macau (2016), Passau (2014).

Arbitration and Law firms:

• Arbitrator – as an expert in international private law, international commercial law, EU law and English and Serbian law;
• Member of the Serbian Arbitration Association since 2020;
• External consultant to several law firms.

International legal expert (since 2007):

• Principal academic advisor of the European Commission’s new law reform project on digital fairness;
• International Legal Expert of the United Nations, World Bank, European Commission, GIZ, European Parliament;
• I have also worked on numerous legislative and policy reform projects in Europe and around the world.

Memberships:

• Member of: European Law Institute; Society of Legal Scholars; Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA).
• Member of the UNIDROIT Working Group on the Legal Nature of Voluntary Carbon Credits.

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

The topic of human rights is something that has attracted me since my high school days. I attended a number of modules in the field of human rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, University of Cambridge and at the EUI. I was a member of the team that won second place in the regional competition in the simulation of the European Court of Human Rights in 2007.

As it can be observed in the publication list below, my current academic research, but also practical work, are focused on exploring the legal and regulatory challenges brought by the artificial intelligence and other forms of new technologies. These developments have a profound impact on a number of human rights such as the right to a fair trial, the right to an effective remedy, the prohibition of discrimination or the right to respect for private and family life, primarily in the context of the right to privacy. In addition, I have been very interested in exploring how the topic of human rights interferes with private law. The final outcome of the project is my book titled "Private Law, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights", published this year.

I was also invited to present my research as a keynote speaker, panelist or commentator at over hundred conferences and workshops at leading Universities in Europe and in the World (e.g. Harvard, Yale, Oxford, EUI, La Sapienza, Bocconi, Lausanne, Manchester, Warwick, Sciences Po, Exeter, IE Spain, University of New South Wales (UNSW), CEU San Pablo, University of Cyprus, Deusto, University of Athens or Humboldt).

From 2020, I have also been a Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional team which leads the £8,6 million three-year UKRI Research Centre of Excellence on the protection of citizens online and protection of their fundamental rights. At King’s College London, I have also established a cooperation with our legal clinic where I was helping with several cases relating to human rights.

I am member of editorial boards of three leading law journals and of advisory boards of several other law journals. This demonstrates my international reputation and outstanding research achievements, as confirmed by my significant record of academic publications and other appropriate indicators of standing and global leadership in the profession.

Finally, complementarily to my research, I am regularly asked to take part in law reform projects in different parts of Europe. I have also worked as an international legal expert for the World Bank, GIZ and the European Commission on several projects related to the access to justice, judiciary reform, training of the judges and capacity building. 6

V. Public activities

a. Public office

None.

b. Elected posts

None.

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None.

VI. Other activities

None.

VII. Publications and other works

In total, my research output comprises more than sixty publications (books, articles, book chapters). The majority of my scientific work has been published by leading global publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press or Hart Publishing.

Ten most important titles are:

Books

1 M. Durovic and C. Poncibo (eds.), “Private Law, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights” (Hart Publishing 2024);

2 M. Durovic, “Regulation of the Artificial Intelligence and Protection of Fundamental Rights: Challenges and Opportunities”, (Oxford University Press 2024);

3 M. Durovic, F. De Elizalde, A. Janssen, L. Di Matteo and P. Ortolani (eds.), “Lawyering in the Digital Age”(Cambridge University Press 2021);

4 M. Durovic, “European Law on Unfair Commercial Practices and Contract Law” (Hart Publishing 2017). 7

Peer-reviewed Articles

1 M. Durovic, “How to protect consumers in the digital era: An example of the online choice architecture”, Anals of the Law School, 2024;

2 M. Durovic and J. Poon, "Consumer vulnerability, digital fairness, and the European rules on unfair contract terms: what can be learnt from the case law against TikTok and Meta?" Journal of Consuм Policy, 46, 419–443 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-023-09546-7;

3 M. Durovic and F. Lech, “The Serpent Under the Flower: Equity’s Tenderness Towards Married Women in the Doctrine of Undue Influence” (2022), King's Law Journal, 33:3, 493-516, DOI: 10.1080/09615768.2022.2135255;

4 M. Durovic and J. Watson, “Nothing to Be Happy about: Consumer Emotions and AI” Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal J 4 (2021) pp784-793. https://doi.org/10.3390/j4040053;

5 M. Durovic and M. Montanaro, “Data Protection and Data Commerce: Friends or Foes?!” European Review of Contract Law, vol. 17, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1515/ercl-2021-0001

Book Chapters

1 M. Durovic, “The Privacy of emotions: from the GDPR to the AI Act, an overview of emotional AI regulation and the protection of privacy and personal data” in M. Ebers and K. Sein, Privacy, Data Protection and Data-driven Technologies (Routledge 2024);

2 M. Durovic, “AI, Data Protection and Privacy”, in: L. A. DiMatteo, C. Poncibo and Michel Cannarsa, The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence: Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
Serbian	X			X			X
b. Official languages:
English	X			X			X
French	X				X		X
c. Other languages:
Greek		X				X			X
Italian	X				X		X

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

Yes, I confirm.

X. Other relevant information

Leading authorities in legal world, such as the Law Commission of England or Wales or the European Court of Justice, have referred to my academic work in their case law or law reform projects.

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

Yes, I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

Appendix 2 – Curriculum vitae of Vladimir MARINKOV

I. Personal details

Name, forename: MARINKOV, Vladimir

Sex: Male

Date and place of birth: 13 February 1979 in Belgrade

Nationality: Serbian

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, graduated on 17 March 2006.
• Training for representation of children's rights in criminal proceedings and representation of minor perpetrators of criminal offenses in all stages of proceedings against minors in organization of “Pravosudni Centar” (Judicial Centre) (Belgrade, 2009);
• Certification in children's rights and criminal protection of minors, and representation of the interests of minors in criminal proceedings against adult perpetrators of criminal offenses per art. 150 of the Law on juvenile offenders and criminal protection of minors in organization of “Pravosudni Centar” (Belgrade, 2009);
• Continuous education of defense attorneys in the defense of war crimes: "Joint Criminal Enterprise and Command Responsibility" organised by OKO – Department for Criminal Defense (at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina – the highest court of first instance competent for all entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Bijeljina – Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009);
• "Training Session on Human Rights, with the support of The Human Rights Trust Fund" at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: Attendance at the session of the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the case of El-Masri v. Macedonia, processing of that case with the lawyer of the court, training on the article 6, training on Article 8, training on Article 10 of the Convention, Presentation of the HELP program and the HUDOC system, conversation with the national judge (Dragoljub Popović), introduction to the work of the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and introduction to the work of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) (Strasbourg – France, 2012);
• Training for lawyers: "Criminal representation skills – Basic and cross-examination" organised by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) and Partners for Democratic Changes Serbia, in cooperation with the Bar Association of Serbia, with the support of the US Department of State/ Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), within the project "Raising the capacity of the legal profession for handling criminal proceedings" (Serbia Criminal Defense Capacity Program – CDCP) (Belgrade, 2013);
• Training in the application of Article 2-7 ECHR within the Regional Cooperation Project – "Strengthening Criminal Justice Institutions and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe" jointly organised by the US Department of Justice, the US Department of Foreign Affairs, the US Embassy in Zagreb and the Judicial Academy from Belgrade (Belgrade, 2016);Training of trainers (ToT) seminar organised by the EU and Council of Europe in the JUFREX project (freedom of expression and media freedom);
• Training of Trainers (ToT) seminar organised by the EU and the Council of Europe in the JUFREX project (freedom of expression and freedom of the media): Training of trainers to successfully deliver training to other legal professionals in the field of application and protection of Art. 10 ECHR (Vrdnik, Serbia, 2017) – As the best trainee from Serbia, Vladimir Marinkov was awarded an invitation and attendance at the conference "Promoting dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the media freedom community, Freedom of expression and the role and case law of the European Court of Human Rights: developments and challenges" (Strasbourg, France, 2017);
• Training of advocate trainers (ToT) organised by ABA ROLI and the BRRLN (Balkans Regional Rule of Law Network) project: "Training of Advocate Trainers, Curriculum Development Programme" (Skopje – Macedonia, 2018);
• Training of lawyers on the topic "Criteria for admissibility of applications to the European Court of Human Rights" organised by the Council of Europe. Training held live and through the HELP platform of the Council of Europe (Tirana – Albania and the HELP platform, 2019);
• Training "Proceedings when determining the needs of victims for protection against secondary victimization, re-victimization, retaliation and intimidation during criminal proceedings and Application of Art. 22 Directive 2012/29 EU" organised by the OSCE (Vršac, 2020);
• Training of Trainers on the HELP platform in the joint project of the EU and the Council of Europe "HELP for the Western Balkans" (Novi Sad, 2022);
• Other numerous trainings for representing the rights and interests of clients, appearing before international courts, organisations and the European Court of Human Rights.

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

. Trainee Lawyer from 19.5.2006 until 15.10.2008.

. Attorney at Law registered in the directory of Attorneys (Bar Association of Belgrade) since 16 October 2008.

During his fifteen-year career, he was an attorney in about 3 000 cases. He appeared before all types and instances of courts in the Republic of Serbia (misdemeanor, basic, higher, appellate, commercial, commercial appellate, administrative, Special Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade for war crimes, special department of the Higher Court in Belgrade for Organised Crime, Supreme Court of Cassation, Constitutional Court), as well as before most administrative bodies – ministries, tax administration, inspections, local self-government bodies, before national arbitrations, in disciplinary proceedings (High Council of the Judiciary, Medical Chamber, Bar Association). In about 50 proceedings, he represented the interests of clients before the Constitutional Court of the RS, and in more than 250 cases before the Supreme Court of Cassation. Participated in drafting and independently worked on several petitions to the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, initiated and led proceedings before other international institutions (Interpol – Europol, Commissioner for Refugees, Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN).

In terms of the above, from the most significant cases can be singled out (in accordance with the general importance of the case and the protection of convention rights at the national level, as well as the level of the courts and authorities before which it was presented):

• Part of the defense team of defense attorney Adv. Mare Pilipović, before The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the second-instance proceedings (2007);
• Defense for war crimes before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2009);
• Defense for war crimes in the "Ovčara" case – Higher Court in Belgrade, Special Department for War Crimes (2009-2010);
• Large number of cases before the Higher Court in Belgrade – Special Department for Organised Crime (drug trafficking, illegal internet casinos, identity theft and forgery of payment cards, murders, extortion and blackmail, illegal transport of migrants);
• One of the lawyers in the defense team of deceased Oliver Ivanović for the preparation of the appeal against the verdict for war crimes before the court in Kosovska Mitrovica. The proceedings were suspended after the murder of Oliver Ivanović;
• Legal representative of a former high-ranking politician in Montenegro and his family in cases of confiscation of property acquired by committing a criminal offense, as well as in other cases (Montenegro);
• He is currently an active defense attorney in the case of the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija. The case is pending in the second instance in the Department for Organised Crime of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade. In that case, the Judgment of the ECtHR was passed in relation to violations of the rights of the defendants in relation to Article 5 ECHR;
• Represented in more than ten cases of rehabilitation – proceedings for annulment of convictions against persons unjustly punished as opponents of the communist regime after the Second World War;
• Represented in more than 30 procedures for the return of property confiscated by the communist regime after the Second World War (restitution);
• Represented in several proceedings an award-winning documentary director who suffered mobbing at the workplace (national television) because of the award-winning documentary film "The Martinović Case" which deals with the issue of a brutal murder committed out of hatred on a national basis;
• Protection of the right to a home of a Roma family on an illegally built building in an unregulated settlement that is over 30 years old in a city zone designated for other purposes by the urban plan;
• Protection of the rights of the child and parents, a large number of cases, of which it is worth highlighting the case in which the father took the child from the shared house and hid with him in the forests of Kosovo; international case in which the mother fled domestic violence from Zagreb – Croatia to the Republic of Serbia. In that case, international proceedings were conducted under the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, as well as a large number of national cases; the mother, with the help of a social work center worker, illegally takes the child away from the father and takes him to Montenegro (several civil and criminal cases); taking children away from their parents based on the fact that they are both being treated for mental illnesses; the procedure for issuing a travel document to a hearing-impaired minor of Roma-Albanian nationality in order to be reunited with his parents and to continue his education in a special school for hearing-impaired children in Germany (procedure before the Ministry of Interior and the Minister of the Interior since the parents could not approach to issue a travel document); representation of a minor victim in criminal proceedings for rape; the right to home and family of a single mother evicted from a rented apartment during the duration of the rental agreement; the right to support in an adequate amount that corresponds to the standard of living of the parents with whom the child does not live for the illegitimate child of a well-known Serbian singer; several cases against the parents of diplomats employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to the determination of proper child support, as the MSP submitted incorrect documentation on the amount of the diplomat's income in those cases; the child's right to privacy – the ban on the publication of the child's image on social networks by one of the parents and where both parents are public figures; the right to maintain personal relationships with the children and the independence of maintaining relationships with the payment of child support; realization of the basic rights of the newborn in the mother's country of citizenship while the father obstructs the realization of those rights (right to citizenship, to home – residence, right to social and health care); entrusting the child to the father abroad, after the mother fell seriously ill and became unable to take care of the child;
• The right to property and the right to work in the process of illegal demolition of one of the oldest private factories in Serbia for the construction of a residential complex, during the demolition of which, in addition to immovable property, all machines, exhibits from the factory museum, works of art, tools, finished products and those in production... were destroyed. The case was conducted before all national instances, currently in the enforcement process;
• Representation of a large number of workers in several procedures for exercising rights based on work in bankrupt companies;
• Defence of police officers and customs officials in criminal proceedings for influence peddling, accepting bribes, etc., in which case 33 persons were accused of these criminal acts;
• Representation of a large number of police officers in proceedings for the realisation of rights based on work, in a large number of cases due to less paid wages, as well as rights based on work after legally binding acquittal of criminal charges;
• Defence of minors in criminal proceedings against minor perpetrators of criminal acts;
• Representation of a large number of journalists in various proceedings (judicial and administrative) for the realisation of labour rights, intellectual property rights and protection of the right to journalistic freedom;
• Procedures for exercising the right to parole in a large number of cases, especially in the case of a sentence or detention in another country (judicial and administrative procedures before the Ministry of Justice);
• The right to joint testamentary disposition of property of spouses in order to establish a foundation to help young talents in the field of natural sciences;
• Protection of the right to privacy in case of inaccurately published news in the media (the photo attached to the article incorrectly refers to the family as the perpetrators of a criminal offense with which they have no connection);
• Defence of a mentally ill person suspected of murdering his wife by inaction;
• The right to a home (Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the Convention) in several cases; the wife of a deceased janitor who used the apartment based on his workplace, protected tenants who, according to earlier laws, had the right to use state-owned apartments that were subsequently returned to the heirs of the old owner;
• Representation of a large number of persons injured during the purchase of apartments under construction, after the bankruptcy of the construction investor (Association of 1 000 injured persons);
• A large number of cases related to high-tech crime – pornographic materials created by the abuse of children, creation and spread of computer viruses, illegal trade on the Internet, computer sabotage, unauthorized access to computer systems, sabotage of the Internet presentation of the prosecutor's office for high-tech crime, coercion and blackmail via the Internet and various others;
• The representative of the heirs of the founder in a large number of proceedings, both judicial and proceedings for the restitution of property confiscated after the Second World War, especially related to the ownership rights of the most famous Serbian daily newspaper "Politika", the copyright on the trademark of that daily newspaper, changes to the font of the daily newspaper's header and other;
• Representation of a person after deportation on the grounds of rejection of an asylum request in Norway on the basis of abuse in Serbia due to belonging to the LGBT community, and due to the absence of mandatory assistance from Serbia upon return to Serbia;
• Number of actions due to discrimination: in the workplace, discrimination based on the University completed when receiving a state scholarship; discriminatory court rulings that place a party in one procedure in a discriminated position in relation to parties in other identical procedures;
• Criminal proceedings with an international element: extraditions for conducting criminal proceedings, extraditions for the purpose of serving a sentence, counting detention in a foreign country, extradition detention, recognition of a foreign court decision and execution of a sentence determined by a foreign judgment, cancellation and erasure of an international warrant, extradition of persons facing various charges multi-state criminal proceedings, primary jurisdiction for conducting criminal proceedings, US jurisdiction over wanted persons who have flown over US airspace in commercial traffic and for which an emergency landing to a US airport has been ordered;
• Unauthorised use of a video from a treatment session of a person addicted to narcotics for the purpose of advertising a rehabilitation institution;
• Defense and representation of the representative of the political party of the minority nation in the procedure initiated for its removal from the minority parliamentary list;
• Representation of officials in proceedings regarding an alleged conflict of interest before the Anti-Corruption Agency;
• Representation of national television in several court and arbitration proceedings;
• Representation of the victim in criminal proceedings regarding the unauthorised publication of intimate recordings on the Internet – several cases;
• Damaging business reputation of a client – multinational company through social networks by spreading fake news and misinformation;
• Several cases regarding mobbing in the workplace: kindergarten teachers, several doctors in renowned state clinics, an official in charge of European integration and protection against discrimination in a ministry;
• Defense in criminal proceedings and representation in civil proceedings of persons with developmental delays for bodily injury inflicted on a police officer;
• Compensation for damages against the state due to serious bodily injuries received while serving a sentence, when another person tried to take his own life by jumping from a height and fell on the victim;
• Representation of the Bar Association of Serbia in proceedings related to high-tech crime;
• Representation of a person exposed to police brutality and inhuman treatment during arrest;
• Violation of property rights of third parties in enforcement proceedings where enforcement is carried out on immovable property owned by third parties, who have not entered the ownership rights in the cadastre before enforcement begins;
• Procedures for exercising the right to citizenship, as well as procedures for dismissal from citizenship;
• Breakthrough of the legal practice related to cryptocurrencies in Serbia in relation to the establishment of companies in which cryptocurrency was entered as a founding contribution;
• Restitution of property taken from Jewish families during the German occupation in the Second World War, which property was later confiscated by the communist regime in Yugoslavia at the time;
• Litigation for insult between two high-ranking politicians in Serbia, who exchanged several controversial and harsh statements in two television shows – is it protected speech;
• Defense of a person who was prosecuted for the sale of narcotics without evidence, held in custody for 9 months in order to be forced to sign a plea agreement;
• Several proceedings before all instances due to discrimination on the basis of nationality – boycott of the factory's products because the owner of the factory is of Albanian nationality;
• Defamatory speech on social networks in which a person is falsely labeled as a homophobe;
• Loss of employment rights due to subsequent changes in by-laws;
• Criminal proceedings due to the Serbia-Montenegro interstate corruption affair;
• Freedom of expression on social networks related to the current topic at that moment – domestic violence, where the ex-partner files a lawsuit for insult due to a text in which his ex-partner writes about her experience with violence in the partner community, without giving any information about the abuser, but he recognizes himself in the text and files a lawsuit;
• Legal expertise of the international franchising agreement of the largest news outlet in Europe with a local partner in Serbia. The given legal expertise was also presented in the bodies of the European Union;
• Member of the delegation in the capacity of legal advisor of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media of the Republic of Serbia in discussions with the Regulatory Body of Luxembourg – ALIA regarding the resolution of jurisdictional issues in relation to media with cross-border broadcast programs (Luxembourg, 2021);
• Peer violence in elementary school, and after the child changed school because of it, verbal attacks by teaching staff on parents;
• Worked as Data Protection Officer (DPO) for a local branch of a multinational company for six years;
• In a large number of cases, he gave legal opinions, advice, analysis of the situation, related to the protection of personal data, both at the handler and at the processor of personal data.

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

In addition to his primary practice as an attorney, Vladimir Marinkov devoted about 20% of his time annually to the education of others, primarily attorney and attorney trainees, but also other lawyers, as well as interested professionals who perform tasks in which they need specific knowledge in certain legal fields. Vladimir Marinkov began his teaching experience in 2015 and has undergone all the appropriate training for adult education.

• Lecturer at the AKS Bar Academy at the Department of Criminal Law (2016-);
• Preparation of trainees to take the bar exam in criminal law on the following topics: Basic characteristics of a criminal offense, Basics of exclusion of illegality, Basics of exclusion of guilt, Complicity and forms of complicity, Criminal sanctions, Penalties in the criminal legislation of Serbia, Method and criteria for determining punishment, Warning measures, Security Measures, Educational measures, Confiscation of property due to benefits obtained from a criminal act, Indictment of criminal acts, Measures to ensure the presence of the accused and the smooth conduct of criminal proceedings, Pre-investigative procedure, Opportunity – Postponement of criminal prosecution, Investigative procedure, (about 50 lectures held so far, Lectures held at to the Bar Association of Serbia and the regional Bar Associations of Belgrade, Niš, Čačak, Bujanovac (Bujanovac with the organization and support of the OSCE) (2016-.);
• Continuous education of attorneys on the topic of protection of human rights on the Internet and high-tech crime. About 10 lectures were held in total. Lectures held at the Bar Association of Serbia, Belgrade for all regional chambers) (2016-);
• The Bar Academy of the Bar Association of Serbia in cooperation with Partners for Democratic Changes Serbia – Raising the competencies of criminal defense. Training of lawyers on the topics of opening statements, direct and cross-examination and closing arguments. Training intended for all attorneys, with an emphasis on young ones. Held 4 two-day trainings (2016), (mentoring work with students who participated in the Moot Court competition, within this program, Preparation of part of the script, and presentation of the closing arguments in the educational film, which accompanies the training, within this program);
• Raising the competencies of criminal defense. After the completion of the project in co-operation with Partners for Democratic Changes Serbia, the Bar Academy of the Bar Association of Serbia continues independently with the project and training. Training on the topics of introductory presentations, direct and cross-examination and closing arguments. (held 3 two-day trainings and a larger number of one-day trainings according to that curriculum) (2016-);
• The Bar Academy of the Bar Association of Serbia in co-operation with ABA ROLI. Raising the competencies of criminal defense. Training intended for attorneys. The topics on which the candidate held trainings are Pre-Investigation, Investigation Procedure, Evidence and Indictments. 3 four-day trainings were held. (2018-2019), (Handbooks were created in this project, and the candidate is the author of two Handbooks in the area of Pre-Investigation and Investigation Procedures and Evidentiary Actions, After the individual Handbooks, the co-authored book "Handbook of representation skills in criminal proceedings – for lawyers" was written as part of this project, with the data listed in this CV under the heading "Publications and other works");
• The Bar Academy of the Bar Association of Serbia in co-operation with OSCE. Protection of the rights of victims in criminal proceedings. Training intended for attorneys and attorney trainees. Held training on the subject of property claims of victims and injured parties in criminal proceedings. 9 training sessions lasting 1.5 days were held (Čačak, Vršac, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Subotica, Novi Pazar, Niš, 2021-2022);
• Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade with the topic "Legal aspects of information security and internet presence" (Belgrade, 2014);
• Lecturer at the seminar "High-tech crime and challenges of information security" on the topic of high-tech crime and protection of information security on the Internet. Seminar held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade organised by the Open Link Group (NGO) and the Faculty of Law UB (Belgrade, 2015);
• Guest lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Niš on the topic of Protection of Human Rights on the Internet and High-tech Crime (Niš, 2015):
• Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Security, University of Belgrade. Lectures held as an external part-time associate – expert in criminal law, high-tech crime and personal data protection;
• Academic Master studies "Security Science" within the subject High-tech crime and cyber security, with the topics Protection of human rights on the Internet and High-tech crime. Six classes were held during three school years: 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 (2020-);
• Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Security of the University of Belgrade for master's studies on the topic of Protection of the right to privacy and protection of personal data (2022);
• Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Security of the University of Belgrade on postgraduate specialist studies on the topic of Protection of the right to privacy and protection of personal data (2022);
• Lecturer at the Security Faculty of the University of Belgrade on a short study program entitled "Training of Managers for the Protection of Personal Data" (DPO), on the topic of the rights of the persons to whom the data relates in connection with the processing of personal data. During the short study program, he was engaged in conducting theoretical and practical classes, creating teaching materials and preparing tests to check the knowledge of the participants. Engagement during the school years 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 (2020-);
• CoE – JUFREX project, certified trainer (Freedom of Expression) (2016-). Training intended for attorneys – the counterpart training for judges and prosecutors is conducted through the Judicial Academy;
• Participation in about 15 JUFREX project conferences in the region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro);
• Training for attorneys from Serbia on Article 10 of the ECHR. The trainings were conducted as two- and three-day interactive workshops, where the candidate covered the following topics: Basic principles, Conditions for limiting freedom of expression, Freedom of expression and the Internet, Positive obligations of the state, Protection of journalistic sources and whistleblowers, Encouraging a favorable environment for journalism and avoiding impunity. In addition, as a trainer, the candidate designed and developed tasks, questions, case studies and led interactive sessions. During the second phase of the JUFREX project, around 10 attorney trainings were held (2016-2022);
• CoE certified tutor on the HELP platform (2022). HELP tutors are not tied to one topic, and the currently assigned module is "GDPR and personal data protection" (2022);
• Lecturer at trainings organised by Forum Media DOO. Training intended for inhouse lawyers at companies, the IT sector and responsible persons or persons in charge of personal data protection;
• Employee Control at the workplace by the employer. Covered topics: Legal framework, relationship between the Serbian Personal Data Protection Act and GDPR, Video surveillance, entry and exit control, control of computers and other devices, control of telephone communication, control of e-mail, control of digital communication, GPS control of vehicles, Biometric control of employees, Social networks activity control, legality and usefulness of collected materials. Held a total of about 20 one-day trainings – general and in-house (2016-2023);
• Information security and protection of data stored in information systems (IT audit). The topics covered are the Law on Information Security, accompanying by-laws, Act on Security of IT Systems, Submission of data on incidents, IT systems of special importance, Protection measures of IT systems of special importance, Legal protection of data and procedures in case of breach of protected data. Held 9 three-day trainings (2017-2020);
• Expert in IT security and data protection. The topics covered are the Law on Information Security, Legal Sources, The question of the application of national law in specific cases, Domestic legislation with an analysis of specific legal solutions, Rules and standards in the field of data protection, Methods of control and assessment of legal risks and the protection of sensitive and confidential data, Judicial practice, Legal protection of data and procedures in case of violation of protected information. Held 7 three-day workshops (2016-2018);
• Lecturer at trainings organised by Kurs Kreator DOO – Control of employees at the workplace by the employer. Training intended for inhouse lawyers at companies, the IT sector and responsible persons or persons in charge of personal data protection. Covered topics: Legal framework, relationship between the Serbian Personal Data Protection Act and GDPR, Video surveillance, entry and exit control, control of computers and other devices, control of telephone communication, control of e-mail, control of digital communication, GPS control of vehicles, Biometric control of employees, social networks activity control, legality and usefulness of collected materials. Held a total of about 20 one-day trainings – general and in-house. Three one-day trainings were held (2022-2023);
• Member of the permanent work group of the Bar Association of Serbia for changes in criminal legislation. Work on proposals for amendments to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code, both through the initiatives of the Bar Association, and through comments and proposals for amendments to drafts and proposals for amendments to those laws (2018-);
• Disciplinary judge of the Disciplinary Court of the Belgrade Bar Association. President of the panel of three disciplinary judges and member of two panels. Conducting proceedings to determine the existence of a violation of the Law on Advocacy, the Statute of the Bar Association of Serbia, the Bar Association of Belgrade and the Code of Professional Ethics of Lawyers. During his mandate, he participated in about 20 disciplinary procedures. All the judgments of the panel of which he was the president were confirmed in the second instance (2018-2022);
• National expert of the Council of Europe in the field of freedom of expression;
• OSCE expert for the protection of the rights of victims in criminal proceedings;
• Participant in the conference organised by RNIDS (Register of the National Internet Domain of Serbia) – Legal protection on the Internet (with special reference to the right to privacy) (2013);
• E-security conference – participant of the round table on the topic of privacy protection on the Internet (2018);
• Speaker and panelist at the conference "Security and data protection – 2018" organised by Forum Media DOO. Topic "Expected changes and directions of development of the Personal Data Protection Act” (Belgrade, 2018);
• Speaker and panelist at the conference on the occasion of the adoption of the new Personal Data Protection Act in Serbia with the topic "Harmonization with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)" (Belgrade, 2018);
• Over 100 media appearances in printed media (Politika, Večernje Novosti, Novi Sad Dnevnik, Danas, B92...), online media and portals (Telegraf, Mondo...), television (RTS, N1, Nova, Happy...), radio (Radio Belgrade 1, Radio Beograd 2, Radio 202...) as a legal expert, especially on the topics of criminal law, high-tech crime, protection of personal data, protection of children's rights, protection of property, inheritance, enforced execution, right to privacy, protection of freedom of expression, etc.;
• In one of the oldest and most widely circulated daily newspapers in Serbia, "Večernje Novosti", in the periodical segment that deals with legal issues of interest to the reader, he was one of the most frequently invited lawyers to give expert opinions on the topics and questions of the readers;
• Lecturer at a webinar organised by the Register of National Internet Domains of Serbia (RNIDS) on the topic of Personal Data Protection of Internet Business Clients (2023);
• Participant of the panel organised by the Center for Civic Education (Podgorica, Montenegro) at the conference "Review of 11 years of Progress and Challenges, How to Revive Negotiations With the EU" on the topic of negotiation chapters 23 (Judiciary and fundamental rights) and 24 (Justice, freedom and security), with other participants Jakov Milatović – President of Montenegro, Oana Cristina Popa – EU Ambassador in Montenegro, Daliborka Uljarević – Executive Director of CGE-CCE, Vladimir Novović – Chief Special Prosecutor in Montenegro, Miodrag Iličković – retired judge of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro and Bojana Franović Kovačević – attorney from Podgorica (Podgorica – Montenegro, 2023).

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

• Member of the non-governmental organisation E-security/E-sigurnost (eSigurnost is a non-profit association formed in February 2016. It consists of professionals in the field of IT security who are gathered around the general vision and intention to raise the importance, role, and awareness of information security, as well as knowledge on the topic of cyber-crime);
• Member of the Council of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade (2019-). The Council of the Faculty of Law is the "Directing Management Body" along with the Management Body (dean and vice-deans), professional bodies and the Student Parliament. The council has 27 members who are elected for 4 years. Members of the Council of the Faculty of Law make decisions by majority vote and it is within their competence that the Council: adopts and changes the Statute of the Faculty; elects and dismisses the dean; adopts the financial plan of the Faculty; approves the business report and annual accounting; adopts the plan for using funds for investments; gives consent to decisions on the management of the Faculty's property; gives consent to the distribution of financial resources; makes a decision on the amount of school fees; submits to the Government of the Republic of Serbia, at least once a year, a report on the Faculty's operations; selects the external auditor of the Faculty's financial operations; makes a decision on the formation of internal organizational units; makes a decision on the establishment or abolition of chairs; makes a decision on the establishment of an organizational unit or a separate legal entity whose goal is the commercialization of the results of scientific research work; appoints management bodies, i.e. representatives in the management bodies of legal entities whose founder is the Faculty, or which are entrusted with the management of the Faculty, and performs other tasks related to founding, i.e. management rights in those legal entities, in accordance with the law; adopts the Rules of Procedure of the Council, which regulates the management and the way of work in more detail; performs other tasks in accordance with the law, this Statute and other general acts of the Faculty.

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

• The candidate, as a long-time lawyer, participated in a large number of court cases in which the fundamental issue was the violation of human rights, or the issue stemmed from the previous actions of state authorities towards the client (criminal proceedings, proceedings to determine discrimination, freedom of expression, mobbing, protection of whistleblowers..., as well as in proceedings before the highest national and supranational instances regarding violations of guaranteed human rights, as illustrated in point IIIa.
• The candidate devoted a good part of his time to educating others in the field of human rights, especially in relation to the protection of human rights and the right to privacy, specifically, on the Internet. Emphasis is placed on the education of the professional public – other attorneys primaraly, but also judges and prosecutors, as it was stated above under point IIIb.
• The applicant achieved special work on the protection of human rights within the framework of the national legal system through his participation in the Permanent Working Group of the Bar Association of Serbia on changes to criminal legislation, whose role is to give the opinion of the legal profession to the legislator, in relation to all proposed changes in the corpus of criminal law legislation, as well as proposing new amendments to the law in order to further improve the protection of human rights in criminal proceedings – namely, both the rights of the accused as well as the victims, as participants in criminal proceedings
• He is actively involved in the protection of freedom of speech and expression through his legal practice, but also through his position as a national expert of the Council of Europe and a trainer in that field, as described in points IIIa and IIIb.
• Also, he stands out as one of the first experts in Serbia in the field of personal data protection among attorneys, and in this sense, he is often professionally engaged as a Data Protection Officer, consultant in the field of personal data protection, but also an educator in this field, as mentioned in points IIIa and IIIb.

V. Public activities

N/A

VI. Other activities

N/A

VII. Publications and other works

• Professional magazine "Advokat", no. 2, year I, October 2013, p. 42-43 "Cybercrime in Serbia"
• Two manuals (handbooks), in the field of pre-investigation and investigative procedure and evidentiary actions, prepared for the needs of the project "Raising criminal defense competences". (2018),
• "Manual on Representation Skills in Criminal Proceedings – for Lawyers", co-author, 2019, publisher ABA ROLI, CIP cataloging National and University Library "St. Kliment Ohridski" Skopje, North Macedonia 343.1(497.11)(035)
• "Guide to the Rules and Procedures in the Field of Employment for the Introduction and Use of Video Surveillance and Electronic Control of Employees at the Workplace, with a Collection of Acts" 2017, publisher Forum Media DOO
• Collaborator on the book “History of the Serbian Bar Association IV”, group of authors, 2012, publisher AKS, CIP cataloging National Library of Serbia no. 347.965(497.11)
• Collaborator on over 10 books authored by Adv. Veljko Guberina, with the theme of prominent court cases ("I defended...", autobiographical series of 10 books "Svedok istorije")
• Long-term collaborator on the periodic cross-section of the state of the rule of law in the world on the international project "World Justice Project" with a report on the state of the rule of law in the past year in Serbia in the field of criminal, constitutional and civil matters for the "World Justice Project Rule of Law Index" (2014) -)

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
Serbian	X			X			X
b. Official languages:
English	X			X			X
French			X			X			X
c. Other languages:
Russian		X				X			X
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian	X			X			X

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be, also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

The candidate has a passive knowledge of the French language and is currently actively working on improving his knowledge of that language and intends to reach a high level of knowledge and use of that language by the date of the start of the mandate of the next judge of the European Court of Human Rights from Serbia.

In that sense, I declare that I am attending and will continue to attend intensive French language courses before the start of my mandate, and if necessary, after the start of my mandate as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, if I am elected as a judge of that Court, until reaching the required level of knowledge of French language.

X. Other relevant information

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I hereby confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg, France, in the event that I am elected as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights.

Appendix 3 – Curriculum vitae of Nataša PLAVŠIĆ

I. Personal details

Name, forename: PLAVŠIĆ, Nataša

Sex: female

Date and place of birth: 4 September 1978 in Novi Plazar

Nationality: Serbian

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

Academic qualifications

• PhD in Public International Law, PhD thesis: “Protection of individuals before the Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights”, Belgrade Faculty of Law, Serbia, September 2016
• Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, July 2012
• Master (LL.M.) in Public International Law, Master thesis: “Protocol No 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms”, Belgrade Faculty of Law, Serbia, April 2009
• Bar exam, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia, February 2005
• Bachelor's Law Degree, International Public Law, Belgrade Faculty of Law, Serbia, 1997-2002

Other qualifications in the field of human rights

• Matra PATROL Programme – Access to Justice T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands, March 2014
• Study visit at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, September – December 2011
• Study visit at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, September – December 2009
• Summer School on Comparing Constitutional Adjudication, Faculty of Law, Trento, Italy, July- August 2008
• Human Rights School for Lawyers Human Rights Centre, Opatija, Croatia, September 2004
• The Regional Advanced Programme on Human Rights, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund, Sweden, April-May 2004

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

• Constitutional Court Judge, May 2019 – present

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• Agent of the Republic of Serbia before the European Court of Human Rights, January 2016–May 2019
• Head of the Department for Constitutional Appeals and Appeals, 2013–January 2016
• Advisor with the Constitutional Court, 2012-2013
• Senior Legal Advisor at the Constitutional Court, 2010-2012
• Legal Advisor at the Constitutional Court, 2007-2010
• Junior Legal Advisor at the Constitutional Court, 2005-2007
• Intern at the Constitutional Court, 2002-2004

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

None.

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

As the Agent of the Republic of Serbia before the European Court of Human Rights, I prepared observations for complex cases related to the protection of rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Convention, including the right to life, the prohibition of ill-treatment, the right to respect for private and family life, and freedom of expression. In addition, as the Agent of the Republic of Serbia, I coordinated the process of the execution of judgments of the Court at the national level and prepared reports and action plans, thus protecting the rights of parties that succeeded before the Court and promoting the importance of proper execution of Court decisions and judgments at the national level in co-operation and dialogue with all parties involved. Also, in the capacity of the Government Agent, I represented the Republic of Serbia in seven debates before the Committee of Ministers.

As the judge of the Constitutional Court, I decide on the most complex cases related to the protection of the rights of individuals in all court proceedings – civic, criminal, and administrative. In performing my duties as a judge, I always try to strike a fair balance between the need to protect the basic rights of individuals, on the one hand, and the public interest in limiting certain rights, on the other. In presenting my arguments, I primarily rely on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

I obtained my LL.M. and PhD degrees in the field of mechanisms for the protection of human rights. My theses were related to the protection of human rights that is ensured before the European Court of Human Rights.

In the course of 2009 and 2011, I spent three months each year at the internship at the European Court of Human Rights, for professional development, where I worked on the preparation of the Court’s decisions. In addition, in July 2012, I graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

I attended, both in Serbia and abroad, numerous professional and specialised training programmes, summer schools, and seminars in the field of human rights and the relationship between the national and international systems of the protection of human rights, listed in Part II.

I am the author of many published professional and scientific papers and articles in the fields of human rights and constitutional law, as well as protection of rights rendered by the constitutional courts and protection rendered by systems established on the basis of the European Convention, listed in Part VII.

I am actively engaged in human rights training programmes organised in the Republic of Serbia by the Council of Europe Office, the Judicial Academy, the Diplomatic Academy, and USAID for a wide range of participants, from students of law faculties to judges of general and special courts. I took part and delivered presentations at numerous scientific and professional conferences and meetings in the field of human rights protection, both in Serbia and abroad – listed in Part IV.

a. Activities and experiences at the Council of Europe level

Speaker

• Representing the Republic of Serbia before the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in seven debates in the enhanced proceedings cases Zorica Jovanović v Serbia (case of “missing babies”) Ališić and others v. Serbia and others (“old currency savings” case), Strasbourg, France
• HELP program “Strengthening the effective legal remedies to human rights violations”, lecture on topic “Reasoning of court decisions and human rights – Practice of the Constitutional Court of Serbia”, 6 December 2022, Belgrade, Serbia
• Seminar for the Constitutional Court advisers “Compensation in the cases of human rights violations – case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and domestic courts”, lecture on topic “The relationship between the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court”, 31 May 2022, Belgrade, Serbia
• Third Meeting of the Horizontal Facility II Beneficiary Steering Committee, Speaker at the thematic breakout group – Ensuring justice on the action “Strengthening effective legal remedies to human rights violations in Serbia”, 10 February 2022, Belgrade, Serbia
• Online seminar for students of the law faculties in Serbia “National mechanisms for the protection of human rights“, lecture on topic “National mechanism for the protection of human rights with special focus on protection before the Constitutional Court”, 4 December 2021
• Second Meeting of the Horizontal Facility II Beneficiary Steering Committee, Speaker at the thematic breakout groups – Exchange on the ongoing actions: Theme 1: Ensuring Justice – action “Strengthening the effective legal remedies to human rights violations in Serbia”, 9 March 2021, Belgrade, Serbia
• Seminar for presidents and judges of appellate, higher and basic courts “Right to a trial within reasonable time with special focus on recent case-law of the European Court of Human Rights lecture on topic “Protection of the right to a trial within reasonable time from the perspective of the Constitutional Court and its case-law”, 11 December 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
• Conference on International Co-operation in Criminal Matters: Human Rights Perspective, lecture on topic “Mutual legal assistance in view of the case-law and execution of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to Serbia”, 13 May 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
• Final Meeting of the Horizontal Facility Steering Committee, Belgrade, Speaker at the Thematic Workshop Ensuring Justice on the action “Supporting effective remedies and mutual legal assistance”, 6 March 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
• Regional Conference "Obligation to execute judgements of the European Court of Human Rights", lecture on topic "Experiences of the Republic of Serbia in the procedure of execution of judgements and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights", 31 January 2019, Podgorica, Montenegro
• Expert meeting on the Execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgements in relation to Serbia – Obligations of courts and prosecutors’ offices in light of the judgement in the case Zorica Jovanović v. Serbia, lecture on topic “Measures undertaken by the Republic of Serbia in order to establish effective legal remedy for execution of the judgement in the case Zorica Jovanović v. Serbia”, 28 January 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
• Round table on the mechanisms for the execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgements in relation to Serbia-Challenges and the Way Forward, lecture on topic “Execution of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to Serbia – current state of affairs and challenges”, 23 November 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
• Joint training for presidents and judges of basic and commercial courts and State Attorney’s Office “Trial within reasonable standard – ECtHR case law and implementation within national legislation”, lecture on topic “Right to a trial within reasonable time- reasonable time and right to a trial within reasonable time as an autonomous concept”, 29 October 2018, Kragujevac, Serbia
• High-Level Ministerial Conference “Continued Reform of the European Human Rights Convention System – Better Balance, Improved Protection”, presentation on topic “Copenhagen Declaration and obligation of the Republic of Serbia”, 11-13 April 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Conference “Right to a Fair Trial within Reasonable Time and the Compensation for the Violation of the Right: Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and National Courts”, lecture on topic “Length of proceedings and the level of compensation for the violation of the fair trial standards in cases against the Republic of Serbia before the European Court of Human Rights”, 3 April 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
• Training for trainers for public prosecutors and deputy prosecutors “Standards of the European Convention on Human Rights and practice of the European Court of Human Rights in the application of Article 3 of the Convention – Prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment”, lecture on the topic “Presentation of cases against the Republic of Serbia before the European Court of Human Rights relating to Article 3 of the Convention and the obligation to execute judgements”, 28 February 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
• Meeting of the members of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and MP of the Serbian National Parliament, presentation on topic “Execution of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights in the Republic of Serbia”, 18 May 2017

Participant

• International Conference of the Supreme Court of Cassation “Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights – practices and challenges of the courts in Central and South-East Europe”, moderator on topic “Acquisition and deprivation of property rights – principles of good faith”, 15-16 September 2022, Belgrade, Serbia
• Conference “European Convention on Human Rights – 70 years of advancing human rights”, 4 November 2020, Belgrade, Serbia
• Round table “Presentation of Needs assessment report in respect to the execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgements in relation to Serbia”, 30 October 2020, Belgrade, Serbia
• International Conference “Tackling ill-treatment by police: addressing challenges revealed by judgements of the European Court of Human Rights and by other Council of Europe bodies”, 18 October 2019, Bečići, Montenegro
• Member of the Delegation of the Republic of Serbia in bilateral meetings with Representatives of the Council of Europe, Directorate for Human Rights, 18 and 19 February, 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
• High-Level Expert Conference “Implementation of Copenhagen Declaration”, 31 October – 2 November 2018, Kokkedal, Denmark
• Round table about the results of the research on “References made by judges, judicial advisers and judicial assistants to the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights”, 23 October 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
• Working meeting between Department for the execution of the ECtHR judgements and Supreme Court of Cassation, Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office and Appellate Court in Belgrade, 26 December 2017, Belgrade, Serbia
• High-Level Expert Conference “2019 and Beyond: Taking Stock and Moving Forward from the Interlaken Process”, 22-24 November 2017, Kokkedal, Denmark
• Inaugural meeting of the Serbia Steering Committee of the Joint Programme of the European Union and Council of Europe “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey”, 12 May 2017, Belgrade, Serbia

b. Other activities and experiences in the field of human rights

• 23rd International Conference of Chief Justices of the World on subject “Uniting the World for Children through Enforceable World Law and Effective Global Governance”, lectures on topics “Creating and strengthening awareness of the need to protect human rights” and “Rights of Children”, 16-22 November 2022, New Delhi and Lucknow, India
• Diplomatic Academy “Koča Popović” at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, lectures on topics “Human rights and the European Court of Human Rights”, “Constitutional judicial protection of rights and freedoms and the Constitutional Court”, “Rule of law and protection of human rights and freedoms”, 2023, 2022 and 2021, Belgrade, Serbia
• Online training for judges and judicial advisers of the Administrative Court organised by the Judicial Academy and OSCE, lecture on topic “Right to a fair trial, administrative dispute, taxes and the Law on determining the origin of property and special tax”, July 2021, Belgrade, Serbia
• Online seminar of the Student Club of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, lecture on topic “Constitutional appeal and practice of the Constitutional Court”, 21 May 2021, Belgrade, Serbia
• Conference “Constitutional appeal in the Republic of Serbia – scope and limitations”, organised by the Center for Public Law Foundation and the Society of Judges of Serbia, lecture on topic “The jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in the constitutional appeal proceedings before the Constitutional Court”, 29 November 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
• Regional Conference of constitutional courts “Separation and balance of power – Independence of Constitutional Courts”, lecture on topic “Normative and concrete requirements for the independence of the Constitutional Court – experiences of the Republic of Serbia”, 5-7 June 2019, Podgorica, Montenegro
• Conference organised by the Ministry of Justice, USAID and the Chamber of Public Enforcement Agents “Efficient and fair enforcement: harmonisation of practice”, presentation on topic “Efficient and fair enforcement – European standards of civil enforcement”, 14 May 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
• Sixth Annual Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe organised by AIRE Centre and Civil Rights Defenders on the topic “Children and the European Court of Human Rights”, 22 and 23 March 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• The National Network for the Protection of Human Rights in the Republic of Serbia within the project “Support to strengthening the capacity of the Judicial Academy”, lecture on topic “The importance of implementing the European Court of Human Rights standards”, 24 and 25 January and 8 June 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
• Annual Conference of Judges of the Republic of Serbia “Judicial days – 2018”, lecture on topic “Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Republic Serbia”, 8-10 October 2018, Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia
• VIII St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, 15-19 May 2018, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
• Fifth Annual Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe organised by AIRE Centre and Civil Rights Defenders on the topic “The prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in Article 3 ECHR – case law from the countries in the region”, 16 and 17 March 2018, Skoplje, North Macedonia
• Annual Conference of Judges of the Republic of Serbia “Judicial days – 2017”, lecture on topic “Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Republic Serbia”, 5-7 October 2017, Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia
• Regional Conference of Constitutional Courts “Constitutional Protection in Criminal matters”, 20-22 July 2017, Zlatibor, Serbia
• Fourth Annual Regional Rule of Law Forum for South East Europe organised by AIRE Centre and Civil Rights Defenders on the topic “Keeping the balance: freedom of expression and justified restrictions – how national judges apply the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights”, 17 and 18 March 2017, Tirana, Albania
• Seminar organised by Glosarijum, lecture on topic "Constitutional protection of the rights of civil servants", 24-26 October 2016, Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia

V. Public activities

a. Public office

None.

b. Elected posts

• Member of the CDDH Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, from 2016 to 2019
• Member of the CH-SYSC expert Committee of the Council of Europe on the System of the European Convention on Human Rights, from 2016 to 2019
• Member of the CH-SYSC II expert Committee on the long-term future of the Convention System, from 2017 to 2019
• Member of the Steering Committee of the action “Strengthening the effective legal remedies to human rights violations”, the action is being implemented within the joint European Union-Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, 2019-ongoing
• Member of Advisory Group on effective legal remedies to human rights violations in Serbia, within the action “Strengthening the effective legal remedies to human rights violations in Serbia”, 2019-ongoing
• Member of the Steering Committee of the action “Supporting effective legal remedies and mutual legal assistance”, the action was implemented within the joint European Union-Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey- Phase I”, 2017-2019
• Member of the Advisory Board of the action “Supporting effective legal remedies and mutual legal assistance”, 2017-2019
• Member of the Working Group for the Execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgement in the case of Ališić and others v. Serbia (Law on regulation of the public debt of the Republic of Serbia based on unpaid foreign currency savings of citizens deposited with banks whose headquarters are in the territory of the Republic of Serbia and their branches in the territories of the former Republics of SFRY)
• Member of the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for determining the right to the payment of foreign currency savings, from 2017 to 2019

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None.

VI. Other activities

None.

VII. Publications and other works

• “The right to property in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights”, Glosarijum, 2023, p. 10-25
• Editor of the Publication “European Convention of Human Rights and case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in decisions of the Constitutional Court”, 2022, Belgrade, the Constitutional Court and Council of Europe
• “The Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the Republic of Serbia regarding non-enforcement of the final domestic court decisions delivered against socially-owned companies”, Glosarijum, No.3, 2022, p. 3-18
• “The jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in the constitutional appeal proceedings before the Constitutional Court”, in Šarčević, E., Simović, D., (eds.), 2019, “Constitutional complaint in the Legal System of Serbia”, Sarajevo, CJP Foundation Center for Public Law
• “Legal position the Government Agent of the Republic of Serbia before the European Court of Human Rights”, 2019, Sarajevo, CJP Foundation Centre for Public Law
• “Constitutional protection of the rights of civil servants”, in the Publication “Labour law in the public sector”, Glosarijum, 2016, p. 60-82
• “Acting of courts of general jurisdiction after decisions and findings of the Constitutional Court in the constitutional appeal proceedings”, D. Slijepčević, N. Plavšić, Glosarijum, No. 1, 2016, p. 5-11
• “Judicial protection of the right to a trial within a reasonable time”, D. Slijepčević, S. Stamenkovski and N. Plavšić, Pravni informator, No. 1, 2015, p. 3-19
• “Labour law and labour disputes in proceedings before the Constitutional Court”, D. Slijepčević, and N. Plavšić, Glosarijum, 2014, p. 25-49
• “Protection of the right to a trial within a reasonable time before the Constitutional Court – with special reference to labour disputes”, Paragraf, No. 10, 2013, p. 5-10
• “Constitutional appeal procedure before the Constitutional Court – with special reference to the Law on Amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court”, Paragraf, No. 6, 2012, p. 12-17
• “Individual Constitutional Complaint: Serbian model“, Comparing Constitutional Adjudication, A Summer School on Comparative Interpretation of European Constitutional Jurisprudence, 3rd Edition – 2008, University of Trento

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
- Serbian	X			X			X
b. Official languages:
– English	X			X			X
– French		X			X			X
c. Other languages:
- Spanish		X			X			X

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

Working as an Agent of the Republic of Serbia before the European Court of Human Rights, I was in continuous contact with the French language for more than 3 years, and thus acquired a passive knowledge of the French language.

After becoming a judge of the Constitutional Court, I continued learning French language, and I am currently attending a private, individual intensive French language course, B level.

Also, I confirm my intention to follow intensive French language classes before and both at the beginning and during my term of duty, if elected as a judge of the Court.

X. Other relevant information

None.

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.