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Montenegro advances legal reforms and infrastructure safety

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Legislative and legal developments in Montenegro continue to focus on judicial reform and anti-corruption measures to meet EU accession requirements and GRECO recommendations. Following the approval of a constitutional amendment to remove immunity for the President and Government members regarding criminal offenses, the Parliament has furthered reforms through updates to the Criminal Code and the Law on Internal Affairs. In September 2026, amendments to the Criminal Code officially recognized gender-motivated murder for the first time. While Maja Raičević, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Rights, welcomed the move, she noted that femicide was not introduced as a standalone offense and warned that effectiveness depends on how prosecutors and courts interpret motives. Transparency reforms face intensifying systemic hurdles. Despite the Law on Free Access to Information coming into effect in July 2026, the Center for Civic Education (CGO) warns that the reform is being implemented within a system burdened by administrative silence and insufficient capacity. Data from the Agency for Protection of Personal Data and Free Access to Information (AZLP) shows that in 2025, the legal 15-day deadline was exceeded in 2,180 cases. ~~Of the 2,330 upheld appeals that year, 52 percent were attributed to procedural violations or administrative silence.~~ Furthermore, undecided appeals at the AZLP rose from 90 in 2020 to 2,768 in 2025. On September 28, 2026, Institut alternativa requested an AZLP investigation into the General Secretariat of the Government, alleging the government is failing to publish complete meeting agendas. The organization identified 37 agenda items labeled merely as ‘INTERNO’ rather than providing descriptive titles. Executive Coordinator Dragana Jaćimović stated that the law requires the publication of item names even for sessions held behind closed doors. In October 2026, a CGO analysis titled ‘Parliamentary Ethics Without Responsibility’ revealed that Montenegro’s parliamentary ethical accountability system has issued zero sanctions since the first Code of Conduct was adopted in 2014.

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