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Economic Reform Programme (ERP) in Serbia (2019 – 2021)

Area: Education and Skills
Reform measure 18: Qualifications oriented to labour market requirements
Activities planned in 2019
  • Implement dual education in the area of higher education (preparation of the legislative framework);
  • Establish education training centres and excellence centres for the purpose of supporting dual education in the Republic of Serbia;
  • Prepare the report on connecting the National Qualifications Framework in Serbia (NQFS) with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and self-evaluation according to the European Higher Education Area and its adoption by the EQF Advisory Group.
Activities planned in 2020
  • Establish the analytical system for monitoring and evaluating dual and entrepreneurship education;
  • Ensure cooperation between education training centres and excellence centres for the purpose of supporting dual education in the Republic of Serbia;
  • Establish the NQFS Register which will comprise subregisters in accordance with the NQFS Law.
Activities planned in 2021
  • Establish an analytical system for monitoring and evaluating dual and entrepreneurship education;
  • Ensure cooperation between education training centres and excellence centres for the purpose of supporting dual education in the Republic of Serbia;
  • Establish the system of validation of non-formal and informal learning, which will enable the qualifications also to be acquired based on work or life experience, in a special procedure, to be followed by the issuance of a certificate as a public document.
Area: Employment and labour markets
Reform measure 19: Increased labour activation of social welfare beneficiaries who are fit for work, hard-to-employ unemployed persons in line with employment legislation and other hard-to-employ persons from particularly vulnerable groups, and strengthened formal employment
Activities planned in 2019
  • The plan is to adopt and start the implementation of the Law on Social Entrepreneurship and Labour Integration in Social Economic Operators and the Law on Temporary Agency Work;
  • the Law on Simplified Arrangements for Seasonal Work in Certain Activities comes into force on 7 January 2019, so its implementation is to start in 2019, with the software for receiving and processing data on employees/seasonal workers becoming operational in the Tax Administration, seasonal worker records being established in the NES, etc.
Activities planned in 2020
  • Monitor the implementation and review the impact of the implementation of the Law on Social Entrepreneurship and Labour Integration in Social Economic Operators and the Law on Temporary Agency Work;
  • in connection with the Law on Simplified Arrangements for Seasonal Work in Certain Activities, during 2020 the implementation and achieved impact of the newly-established legislative framework will be monitored in cooperation with the NES, CROSO, MoF, Tax Administration and NALED.
Activities planned in 2021
  • Monitor further the implementation and review the impact of the implementation of the Law on Social Entrepreneurship and Labour Integration in Social Economic Operators and the Law on Temporary Agency Work;
  • in connection with the Law on Simplified Arrangements for Seasonal Work in Certain Activities, during 2021 the implementation and achieved impact of the newly-established legislative framework will be monitored in cooperation with the NES, CROSO, MoF, Tax Administration and NALED.

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