FOUNDING

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VETERINARY CHAMBER OF SERBIA
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FOUNDING

• Founded in accordance with the Law on Animal
  Health Protection (1991).
• Organization of Veterinary Chamber are closely
  regulated by the Law on Veterinary Matters
  (Official Journal RS, No 91/2005).
• In order to protect, develop the competence and
  advancement of professional ethic, raising the
  level of animal health protection and
  professional interests of veterinarians,
  Veterinary Chamber was found as professional and
  independent veterinary organization which
  performed their activities on the territory of
  Republic of Serbia, according to the Law on
  Veterinary Matters and the Statute of Veterinary
  Chamber.
• The Chamber shall act as a legal entity.
• Chamber Membership is obligatory for the all
  veterinarians

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ORGANIGRAMME OF VETERINARY CHAMBER OF SERBIA
Commission for prices 28 members Sub Commission
for prices Coordinator
Ethical Committee 28 members President - Vice
President
Expert board 7 members - President
RB - 28 - MB 5 members - President - Vice
President
Assembly of VC -164 delegates - President
Representative of VC in WV?
Management board of VC - 7 members - President
- Vice President
Supervisory board - 5 members - President
Administrative Service - 4 employees - Secretary
of VC
Representative of VC in FVE
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LICENSE

• REGULATION
• ON LICENSE FOR CARRY OUT VETERINARY ACTIVITIES
• (according to the Article 15, point 9 of Statute
  of Veterinary
• Chamber and Article 44 of Law on Veterinary
  Matters)
• License is the document by which Veterinary
  Chamber confirm to
• veterinarian that she/he may perform veterinary
  practice, to
• upgrade specialty, to respect Codex of
  veterinary-medical ethics
• and the rules of good veterinary practice.
• LICENSE REQUIREMENTS
• License shall be issued by the Veterinary Chamber
  upon the
• request of the person who has a right to perform
  veterinary activity
• in accordance with positive legal regulation and
  fulfilling the
• requirements prescribed by the law for carry out
  veterinary
• activity.

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LICENSE

• (Law on Veterinary Matters)
• ISSUING
• A license to practice veterinary medicine can be
  obtained
• by an individual who
• has obtained a diploma of the Faculty of
  Veterinary Medicine,
• passed the experts exam,
• has results in professional veterinary
  activities.
• The costs of issuing the license shall be borne
  by the person
• requesting the license.
• DURATION
• A license shall be issued for the period of 5
  years.

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LICENSE

• (Law on Veterinary Matters)
• ISSUE, EXTENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSE
• The Statute of the Chamber prescribes the
• procedure for the issue, extension, suspension or
  revocation of licenses,
• license register
• bodies of the Chamber that shall be in charge of
  the issue, extension or revocation of licenses.
• SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSE
• The Veterinary Chamber shall, by issuing a
  decision, suspend a
• license for a period of time appropriate to the
  severity of the
• violation if the Committee on Ethics confirms a
  violation of the
• Veterinary Code of Ethics but in no case shall
  the suspension
• exceed 9 months.
• The Veterinary Chamber shall, by issuing an
  effective decision,
• revoke a license and remove the individual from
  the register of
• licensed veterinarians if the license has been
  suspended on two

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LICENSE

• REVOCATION OF LICENSE
• Issued license, Chamber may temporary revoke
  (suspend) for
• maximum nine months by the Decision of the
  President of the
• Chamber, on the proposal of Management board and
  according to
• the Decision of the Ethical Committee.
• Issued license, Chamber shall temporary revoked
  if the effective
• court verdict temporary forbid the veterinarian
  to perform
• veterinary activity for the period of ban
  duration.
• Issued license, Chamber may permanently revoke
  and remove the
• individual from the register, by the decision of
  the President of
• Chamber, on the proposal of Management board, if
  the license has
• been temporary suspend in two previous occasions.
• Issued license, Chamber shall permanently revoked
  if the effective
• court verdict permanently forbid the veterinarian
  to perform
• veterinary activity.

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LICENSE

• Record
• Administrative service of the Chamber keep the
  record of all
• issued,extended, suspended or revoked license,
  as well as the
• license which validation expired.
• Data from the Register, Administrative Service of
  Chamber
• delivering to the Ministry and publishing in
  official journal of
• Chamber once a year.
• Amendments and changes, Chamber shall delivered
  to the
• competent Ministry in 15 days from the day of
  changes.

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ADVANCED TRAININGS

• REGULATION ON ADVANCED TRAININGS OF
  VETERINARIANS
• (Article 15, point 10 of the Statute of the
  Chamber)
• In order to provide and advance quality of work
• in accordance with define standards for every
• area of veterinary activity and issuing and
• extension of license veterinarians are obliged to
• attend the advanced trainings during their
• service.

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ADVANCED TRAININGS

• Advanced training includes
• active and passive participation in congress,
  symposium, conference, expert or scientific
  meetings, specialized seminars and workshops
• attendance on specialized courses from the
  different area of veterinary practice,
• study visits
• publishing articles and studies in scientific and
  experts journals
• authorship in guidelines and books of veterinary
  medicine
• following the scientific and expert publications.
• Graduate titles doctor, master, specialist and
  international
• certificates issued by authorized international
  associations
• represents a permanent aspect of expert training
  with
• permanent evaluation.

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ADVANCED TRAININGS

• Expert board of the Chamber shall propose plan
  and
• program of advanced trainings for the
  veterinarians for
• every year.
• That kind of trainings are programmed trainings,
  made in
• cooperation with
• professional organizations,
• Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and
• the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water
• Management Veterinary Directorate.

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ADVANCED TRAININGS

• Regional boards and specialized veterinary
  associations
• may also initiate organization of trainings.
• Specialized veterinary associations are
• Serbian Association of Small Animal Practitioners
  
• Serbian Veterinary Poultry and Birds Association
• Veterinary Association of Serbian Defense System
• Epizootiology Association
• Microbiological Association
• Field practitioners
• others

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ADVANCED TRAININGS

• Evaluation of the advanced trainings which are
  not
• organized by Veterinary Chamber shall be made on
  the
• basis of competition for accreditation of
  advanced trainings
• program. Chamber shall announced an competition
  no
• later than October of a current year for the
  following year.
• Organizer of the program of advanced training
  must
• submit
• data about scope and content of planned advanced
  trainings,
• scientific and expert competence of performers
• According to that, Expert board makes a decision
  on a
• manner of evaluation of the proposed programs.

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ADVANCED TRAININGS

• EXTENSION OF LICENSE
• In the scope of obliged advanced training and for
  the
• purposes of extension of license, veterinarian is
  obliged to
• achieve 40 points in 5 years.
• Every veterinarian shall be obliged to delivered
  the report
• about advanced training and appropriate
  documentations
• which confirms achievement of points no later
  than 30 days
• before he submits request for extension of
  license.
• Veterinarian who during fifteen years of service
  (two
• extension of license) make more than 200 points
  in total,
• shall not be obliged to attend advanced training
  in order to
• extend license. Extension of the license shall
  made
• according to the evidence on total number of
  points
• achieved during fifteen years of service.

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DISCIPLINARY ACTION

• REGULATION ON DISCIPLINE-ETHIC
• (Article 15, point 8 of Statute of Veterinary
  Chamber)
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• Ethical Committee is a Chamber body which deal
  with and
• make a decisions about violations of a Codex on
  veterinary
• medical ethic and conduct an disciplinary action
  against
• members of Veterinary Chamber in accordance with
  the
• provisions of Statute and this Regulation.
• The task of the Ethical Committee is to deal with
• controversial ethical matters on republic level
  in first
• instant procedure, defining ethical norms in
  accordance
• with need and development of the veterinary
  profession,
• introducing the changes in legal framework,
  proposing
• changes and amendments of low to a superior
  jurisdiction,
• actualization of veterinary profession.

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DISCIPLINARY ACTION

• Disciplinary action shall be started with the
  request for bringing
• disciplinary action. Request for bringing
  disciplinary action shall be
• submitted by the President of the Chamber,
  according to the report
• about the violation of Codex, which can be
  submitted by
• any member of the Chamber,
• veterinary organization,
• administrative organ,
• juristic or physical person.
• Report must be in a written form and must
  contain
• full name, address and phone number of the
  submitter,
• full name of the violator,
• time and place when violation has been made,
• accurate description of violation of Codex,
• evidence which prove the statement in the report.

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DISCIPLINARY ACTION

• REGULATION ON DISCIPLINE-ETHIC
• (Article 15, point 8 of Statute of Veterinary
  Chamber)
• President of Ethical Committee shall appoint the
  Commission,
• composed of three members for investigation of
  every request for
• disciplinary action.
• Commission proposes disciplinary violation to the
  Ethical
• Committee.
• According to the written suggestions and report
  about ethical or
• disciplinary violations, Ethical Committee, as an
  a body of original
• jurisdiction bring and conduct disciplinary
  action, makes a
• decisions and pronounce a disciplinary violation.
• Against a Decision made by Ethical Committee,
  complaint may be
• lodged to the Management board of Veterinary
  Chamber,
• except where a decision means disciplinary
  measure revoking of
• license. In that case, complaint may be lodged to
  the Minister,

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DISCIPLINARY ACTION

• DISCIPLINARY MEASURES
• The following disciplinary measures may be
  pronounced to the
• Veterinarian who violated the Codex
• Rebuke - light violation of Codex made for the
  first time
• Public rebuke - severity violation of Codex and
  repeated light violation made in the previous 12
  months
• Public rebuke and a fine from10.000 to 30 000
  dinars
• - severity violation of Codex and repeated
  severity violation in the
• previous 12 months
• Temporary revocation (suspension) of the license
  for 3 months
• - repeated severe violation of Codex during
  the previous 18 months
• 5. Temporary revocation (suspension) of a
  license for 6 months
• - particularly severe violations of Codex
• 6. Temporary revocation (suspension) of a
  license for 9 months
• - for repeated particularly severe
  violation of Codex in the previous 18
• months
• Permanent revocation of a license
• - when the measure of temporary revocation
  have been pronounced
• twice before in accordance with Law on
  Veterinary Medicine.

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VETERINARY CHAMBER OF SERBIA

• Thank you for your attention