Agreement on Registers

Agreement within the framework of technical dialogue
Date of signing: July 2, 2011

Agreement status:
The agreement has been fully implemented

Parties / delegations

Borko Stefanović
head of the Belgrade negotiating team

Robert Cooper
Chairman – EU facilitator

Edita Tahiri
head of Pristina’s negotiating team

Officials

Boris Tadic
President of Serbia

Mirko Cvetkovic
Prime Minister of Serbia

Atifete Jahjaga
President of Kosovo *

Hashim Thaci
Prime Minister of Kosovo *

Background:

Before and during the conflict in Kosovo, the civil registry books of Kosovo were destroyed or relocated to Serbia. It is estimated that there were 12,036 registry books from Kosovo total. The citizens of Kosovo got their documents issued by the UNMIK administration (UNMIK has issued over 977,000 IDs and 77,500 UNMIK passports to citizens).

The copies of civil registry books were verified in Niš, within an EU-funded project , including into the process the EULEX, the EU Office in Kosovo / EUSR, Danish Refugee Council as executive partner, as well the teams from Kosovo and Serbia. As a result of this agreement, the first civil registry books were handed over to the municipality of Janjevo and the municipality of Lipljan.

The essential points of the agreement

Implemented

Establishing a fully reliable civil registry in Kosovo

Implemented

Establishment of a tripartite “joint commission” consisting of experts from both sides, with the EULEX at its helm, verifying the copies.

Implemented

Belgrade should return the scanned copies of the original civil registry books