# Venice Commission (Council of Europe)

The Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters. In an urgent opinion in April 2026, it found that the January amendments to the judicial laws had significantly affected hierarchical control within the prosecution service. It recommended that the prosecutors whose secondments had been ended early be brought back. In June it concluded that two of the 11 prosecutors removed from the Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office (TOK) had still not been reinstated.

## Affairs

- [Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/tuzilastvo-sklanjanje-predmeta): It called for prosecutors whose secondments had been ended to be reinstated, and in June 2026 it found that two of them had still not been returned

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/venecijanska-komisija  
As of: 6 Nov 2026  
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