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Communal inspectors and communal militiamen will be able to control whether citizens wear masks and keep their distance indoors and outdoors, according to the amendments to the Law for the Protection of the Population against Infectious Diseases.
As RTS reported, changes have already been made to the law and will be presented to the Government on Thursday and to members of the Serbian Parliament on November 10.
Tamara Stojčević, a member of the working group to change the law, told RTS that the law also provides for the possibility of a misdemeanor order, that is, a mandatory sanction, so that the sanitary and community inspector may impose a sanction in the act.
He mentioned that the amount of fines for non-compliance with the measures does not change and that they amount to several thousand dinars to half a million dinars.
Now, the situation is such that wearing a mask or not, keeping your distance, as well as the operation of catering facilities, are the exclusive responsibility of sanitary inspectors, and there are only 140 of them in Serbia.
The Deputy Minister of Health for Inspection Affairs, Goran Stamenković, told RTS that health inspectors are obliged to submit a request to start a misdemeanor procedure to the competent judge for legal persons, businessmen, but also for citizens who do not respect the measures prescribed.
– In the previous four days 2,237 inspections were carried out, 74 requests for the initiation of proceedings for misdemeanors were filed – Stamenković said, adding that almost no requests were made against citizens who do not wear a mask or do not keep their distance.
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