Decision on Earnings of Deputies of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

(“Official Journal of AP Vojvodinaˮ no. 54/2014, 4/2015 and 38/2018)

Decision on
Deputies’ Earnings in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Assembly

I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

This Decision shall regulate the right to a salary of deputies in the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (hereinafter: the Assembly), as well as to reimbursement for the discharge of the deputy’s duty and other allowances and earnings stipulated by this Decision.

Article 2

The deputy shall exercise his/her rights and duties from the confirmation to the termination date of their term of office in the Assembly.

Article 3

The deputy may be employed at the Assembly.

The deputy’s employment may be terminated at their own request, even before the expiry of the period for which they were elected the deputy in the Assembly.

Persons who may be employed at the Assembly include:

- the Assembly President, vice-presidents of the Assembly, presidents of the Assembly Committees and Chief Whips, at their own request, as well as

- deputies, at the request of the deputies’ groups and in conformity with the Budget of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

Decisions referred to in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall be rendered by the Committee in charge of administrative issues.

II DEPUTIES’ EARNINGS

Article 4

The deputy in the Assembly shall be entitled to:

1) a salary and salary compensations;

2) a salary compensation upon termination of the deputy’s term of office, in accordance with the law and Provincial Assembly Decision on the Assembly;

3) a reimbursement for the discharge of the duty;

4) free-of charge transportation, allowance for attending the sessions of the Assembly, its working bodies and deputies’ groups;

5) travel allowances for business trips and

6) other allowances and earnings stipulated by this Decision.

Salary and salary compensations

Article 5

The deputy employed at the Assembly shall be entitled to a monthly salary.

The method of determining and coefficient for the deputy’s payroll accounting referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, shall be laid down by the Assembly Decision, pursuant to the law.

The act pertaining to the payroll accounting and salary disbursement to the deputy referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, shall be passed by the Committee in charge of administrative issues.

The deputy who is employed at the Assembly shall be entitled to salary compensation, pursuant to the law and Provincial regulations.

Salary compensation upon termination of the deputy’s term of office

Article 6

The deputy who is employed at the Assembly shall be entitled to salary compensation upon termination of the deputy’s term of office, in the amount of the salary they had on the day of the term of office termination, for three months at the most. This entitlement may be extended until acquiring the right to retirement, but not longer than the period of three months.

The deputy, whose term of office was terminated during maternity leave or child care leave, shall be entitled to salary compensation upon termination of the deputy’s term of office, in the amount of the salary referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, until the end of the leave.

The deputy may exercise the right referred to in Paragraph 1 and 2 of this Article, based on a written request, submitted to the Committee in charge of administrative issues within 15 days of the date of their term of office termination.

The right referred to in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall not refer to deputies whose term of office had been terminated before the expiry of the period for which he or she was elected, if he or she was sentenced to an unconditional imprisonment, by means of the final court ruling, for not less than six months.

The right referred to in Paragraph 1 and 2 of this Article shall not refer to the deputy in case of their resignation from the position of the deputy.

The right, referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, shall no longer apply upon commencement of employment, acquiring the right to retirement, as well as in case of election and/or appointment to another office, through which they generate their earnings.

Allowance for discharge of duty

Article 7

The deputy, who is employed at the Assembly, shall be entitled to reimbursement for the discharge of the deputy’s duty (deputies' allowance) in the monthly amount of 35% of the net salary received by the President of an Assembly committee.

The deputy who discharges the office of the Assembly President or Vice-President, president of a committee and Chief Whip, who is not employed at the AP Vojvodina Assembly, shall be entitled to an allowance for the discharge of the duty.

The amount of the allowance referred to in Paragraph 2 of this Article, shall be determined in the decision of the Committee in charge of administrative issues.

The deputy shall be entitled to deputies' allowance until the expiry of their term of office.

Allowance for attending sessions of the Assembly, its working bodies and deputies’ groups

Article 8

Any deputy who attends the sessions of the Assembly, its working bodies and deputies’ groups shall be entitled to an allowance whose net amount shall be 4 % of the net salary of the deputy employed at the Assembly.

Any deputy attending several sessions in one day shall be entitled to the allowance referred to in Paragraph 1, on one grounds only.

Any deputy attending a deputies’ group session shall be entitled to the allowance referred to in Paragraph 1, for one deputies’ group session, per each Assembly session scheduled.

In case the number of deputies’ group sessions should exceed the number stipulated in Paragraph 3 of this Article, the deputy shall not be entitled to the allowance for attending a deputies’ group session.

Any deputy who is employed at the Assembly shall not be entitled to the allowance referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article.

Free-of-charge transportation

Article 9

The deputy shall be entitled to a free-of-charge transport in railway, road, river and public transportation system in the territory of the AP Vojvodina, in any direction and for an unlimited number of travels.

Deputies who use their own vehicle to come to sessions of the Assembly, its working bodies, deputies’ groups and non-formal groups, shall be reimbursed in the amount of 15% of the price of motor fuel per kilometre, but the distance of the deputy's domicile from Novi Sad and parametres for determining the price of motor fuel, shall be established in a special decision by the Committee in charge of administrative issues.

Deputies who use their own vehicle to come to a deputies’ group session shall be entitled to the reimbursement referred to in Paragraph, for the number of sessions stipulated in Article 8 Paragraph 3 of this Decision.

In case the number of deputies’ group sessions should exceed the number stipulated in Paragraph 3 of this Article, the deputy using their own vehicle shall not be entitled to the reimbursement for coming to a deputies’ group session.

Any deputy attending several sessions in one day shall be entitled to the reimbursement stipulated in Paragraph 2, on one grounds only.

Travel Allowances for domestic and international business trips

Article 10

Any deputy who was sent to a domestic or international business trip, pursuant to the decision of the competent Assembly committee, shall be entitled to a reimbursement of travel expenses, in compliance with regulations governing the issue of business trips of the Assembly deputies.

III OTHER ALLOWANCES AND EARNINGS OF DEPUTIES

Severance pay upon retirement

Article 11

The deputy shall be entitled to a severance pay, in case of termination of employment, to exercise the right to retirement or in case of termination of employment, by the force of law, due to a loss of work ability.

A deputy shall not be entitled to the right referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, if they had already exercised the right to salary compensation upon termination of the deputy’s term of office, referred to in Article 6 of this Decision.

The severance pay, referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, shall be disbursed in the amount of three republic level average monthly salaries per employee, disbursed in the last three months, according to the official data of the republic authority in charge of statistics-related affairs, on the payment day.

Assistance in case of death of a deputy or close family member

Article 12

In case of death of the deputy, close family members of the deceased shall be entitled to an assistance required to cover the funeral costs, based on the documentation submitted.

Funeral costs, within the meaning of this Article, shall include: a coffin and entire coffin preparation, a wooden grave marker (wooden cross or wooden headboard), admission and placement of the deceased in the chapel and use of the chapel, burying into the grave or tomb, cremation and burying of an urn, preparation and building of a burial mound, use of a burial plot during the first year, conveyance of the deceased from the place of death to the burial place in their domicile and presence of a priest during the funeral for the purpose of conducting the religious memorial service, as well as other necessary funeral costs.

In case of losing a close family member, the deputy shall be entitled to the right referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article.

The close family, within the meaning of this Article, shall include a spouse and children.

Article 13

Other earnings, within the meaning of this Decision, shall include Christmas and New Year bonuses.

Article 14

The act pertaining to earnings of deputies, referred to in this Decision, shall be passed by the Committee in charge of administrative issues, unless otherwise stipulated by a special regulation.

Article 15

Financial resources for earnings of deputies shall be provided in the Budget of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

IV TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 16

On the date of entering into force of this Decision, the Provincial Assembly Decision on the Rights of Deputies of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ("Official Journal of APV", no. 7/2005, 4/2007, 18/2009/ - change of the title of the act and 5/2010 – other Decision), shall cease to be effective.

On the date of entering into force of this Decision, the provisions of the Decision of the Reimbursements and Other Earnings of Elected Persons Employed with the Authorities of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ("Official Journal of APV", no. 1/2003, 16/2005 and 1/2006) shall no longer be applicable to deputies.

Article 17

This Decision shall enter into force on the eighth day of its publishing in the “Official Journal of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina” and shall be applied, as of 1 January 2015.

Independent member of the Decision on Amending the Decision on Deputies’ Earnings in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Assembly
(“Official Journal of AP Vojvodina”, no. 4/2015)

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the eighth day of its publishing in the “Official Journal of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina”.