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Model Decision on the Classification, Designation, and Categorization of Municipal and Unclassified Roads

With the aim of providing support to its member municipalities in the application of legal regulations, the Union of Municipalities has prepared the Model Decision on the Classification, Designation, and Categorization of Municipal and Unclassified Roads. The Law on Roads (“Official Gazette of Montenegro”, No. 82/20 and 140/22) abolished the authority of municipalities to regulate the management and maintenance of municipal and unclassified roads, while establishing the legal basis for prescribing criteria for classification, as well as the method of designation and categorization. The development of this Model Decision was included in the Union of Municipalities’ Work Program for 2025, at the request of the Committee for Communal Services and Environmental Protection.

Model Decision on the Classification of Municipal Roads – December 2025 (PDF)

Model Decision on the Fee for Urban Rehabilitation

Regulating the status of illegal structures is of particular importance for local self-government, which, within its own competences, manages construction land and creates conditions for the construction of buildings.

The usurpation of space by illegal builders limits the ability to implement high-quality local spatial planning and development policies, and deprives local communities of revenue intended for the development of communal infrastructure, which is essential for improving citizens’ quality of life.

The Vienna Declaration on Informal Settlements, to which Montenegro is also a signatory, stipulates that sustainable spatial planning requires the integration of informal settlements into the social and economic, spatial, and legal framework, particularly at the local level, and that successful regularization efforts contribute to long-term economic development, as well as social equality, cohesion, and stability.

The Law on the Legalization of Illegal Structures, which entered into force on August 14, 2025, has created the conditions for conducting the legalization process and increasing municipal revenues on that basis.

The Union of Municipalities of Montenegro has therefore, as a form of support to its member municipalities, prepared the Model Decision on the Fee for Urban Rehabilitation, with the aim of enabling the adoption of higher-quality local decisions and, in this case, contributing to an increase in the number of legalized structures.

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Model Decision on the Fee for Communal Infrastructure Provision of Construction Land for Illegal Structures

In order to assist municipalities in the timely introduction of a fee for the communal infrastructure provision of construction land for illegal structures—and thereby ensure the legal basis for collecting this revenue—the Union of Municipalities, in cooperation with expert representatives from local self-government units and the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, prepared the Model Decision on the Fee for Communal Infrastructure Provision of Construction Land for Illegal Structures. The Model Decision was adopted by the Committee for Spatial Planning and the Committee for Financing of Local Self-Government of the Union of Municipalities. This fee is intended to secure funding sources for the development of construction land in informal settlements and thus contribute to achieving the objectives of the Vienna Declaration.

Model Decision on Communal Infrastructure Provision for Illegal Structures – December 2017 (Final)

Model Decision on the Fee for Communal Infrastructure Provision of Construction Land Established

The Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Structures, which began to be applied on October 14, 2017, prescribes a fee for the communal infrastructure provision of construction land as revenue of the budgets of local self-government units, intended for carrying out activities related to land development and creating conditions for construction. The Law stipulates that municipalities will collect revenue on this basis until the adoption of the General Regulation Plan of Montenegro. It also obliges local self-government units to harmonize their existing decisions on communal infrastructure provision of construction land with the provisions of the new Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Structures and, prior to their adoption, to obtain the Government’s approval of the draft decision.

With the aim of ensuring conditions for the implementation of new legal solutions at the local level and maintaining continuity in the collection of revenue from the communal infrastructure fee by municipalities, the Union of Municipalities, in cooperation with expert representatives from local self-government units and the Ministry of Sustainable Development, prepared the Model Decision on the Fee for Communal Infrastructure Provision of Construction Land. The Model Decision was reviewed and established at a joint session of the Committee for Financing of Local Self-Government and the Committee for Spatial Planning, held on December 26, 2017, in Podgorica.

The Model Decision establishes the conditions, amount, method, deadlines, and procedure for the payment of the fee for communal infrastructure provision of construction land, thereby creating the regulatory framework for the efficient collection of this fee as an important source of municipal budget revenue, the purpose of which is defined by law.   

The Model Decision is not binding for local self-government units; rather, it is intended to provide guidance and assist municipalities in aligning their decisions with the new legal provisions.

Model Decision on the Fee for Communal Infrastructure Provision – December 2017 (Final)

 

Model Municipal Cultural Development Programme Prepared

The Union of Municipalities of Montenegro (UOMM) has prepared a Model Municipal Cultural Development Programme as expert support to its member municipalities in fulfilling the obligation to adopt such programmes, as prescribed by the Law on Culture and the National Programme for Cultural Development for the period 2023–2027.

This document was developed with the aim of encouraging the adoption of municipal programmes, which should result in a significant improvement of conditions for cultural development, as well as the enrichment of cultural offerings and events within local communities.

The Model has been prepared in accordance with the Methodological Framework for Policy Development, Drafting, and Monitoring the Implementation of Strategic Documents established by the General Secretariat of the Government of Montenegro, thereby ensuring alignment between strategic documents at the national and local levels.

The document presents the structure of a municipal cultural development programme, along with detailed guidance for each chapter. The annexes also include sample audience questionnaires and examples of specific activities that municipalities can use when preparing their programmes. Depending on the specific characteristics of local self-government units, the Model can be adapted to local circumstances, available capacities for cultural development, and the potential for its further enhancement.

This document is not binding, but it provides guidelines that will help local self-governments adopt their programmes and contribute to the systematic development and monitoring of cultural policy implementation in municipalities.

The Model was developed by a Working Group composed of Milivoje Lakić, Business Director of the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Danilovgrad; Željko Draganić, Senior Advisor I for Cultural Heritage in the Royal Capital of Cetinje; Dušan Stanović, Administrator of the Youth Centre Podgorica; Edin Smailović, Head of the National Library in Bijelo Polje; Sanja Vojinović, Head of the Sector for Cultural Programmes, Publishing and International Cooperation at the Public Institution National Library “Radosav Ljumović” in Podgorica; and Milica Dragićević, Senior Advisor I at the Ministry of Culture and Media, with expert support from Ivana Nedović, Secretary of the Committee for Social Affairs of the Union of Municipalities. “Model Municipal Cultural Development Programme (Version 2.1)”

Model Decision on Subsidizing Vulnerable Categories of Users of коммунal Services for Individual коммунal Consumption and Public Passenger Transport Lines in Urban and Suburban Areas

The Union of Municipalities has prepared the Model Decision on Subsidizing Vulnerable Categories of Users of коммунal Services for Individual коммунal Consumption and Public Passenger Transport Lines in Urban and Suburban Areas.

Under the Model, the following categories are entitled to receive subsidies for коммунal service prices: persons with disabilities, personal assistants to persons with disabilities, children with special educational needs, persons in a state of social need, young people who were formerly without parental care, and pensioners receiving the minimum pension. The Model Decision also allows for the subsidization of urban and suburban public transport lines, in order to facilitate daily mobility and communication with urban areas for residents living in rural communities.

The right to a subsidy is exercised based on an application submitted to the competent secretariat and remains valid for as long as the status on which it was granted persists. Funds for subsidies are provided by the municipality in its annual budget and are paid on a monthly basis to the коммунal service provider.

The Model was developed with the aim of implementing the Law on Amendments to the Law on Communal Activities from December 2022, which introduced the possibility for municipalities to subsidize vulnerable users of коммунal services and public passenger transport lines in urban and suburban areas.

Zakon o komunalnim djelatnostima je uspostavio tarifnu politiku na principu pokrića punih troškova, kao i obavezu izjednačavanja cijena između fizičkih i pravnih lica. Takvo uspostavljene cijene bi značajno uticale na socijalni status najranjivijih kategorija korisnika. Kako bi se taj rizik ublažio, Zajednica opština Crne Gore je formirala Radnu grupu, sastavljenu od predstavnika opština i komunalnih preduzeća Glavnog grada Podgorica, Prijestonice Cetinje, opština Berane, Bijelo Polje i Mojkovac, kao i stručnjaka u ovoj oblasti, koja je pripremila Model Odluke.

The Model Decision aims to help establish guidelines and principles according to which local self-government units will regulate these matters and prepare and adopt their own decisions.

Model Decision on Subsidizing Communal Services – October 2023

Model Decision on Communal Order Prepared

08.06.2021

The Law on Communal Activities prescribes the authority and obligation of local self-government units to regulate, by their own decision, the general conditions for maintaining communal order and the measures for its enforcement, in order to ensure the proper use, protection, and maintenance of public areas, communal infrastructure, equipment, and facilities for performing communal services, as well as to safeguard the public interest in the communal sector. This particularly applies to areas such as settlement planning; maintaining cleanliness and protecting public spaces; snow and ice removal; management of public lighting; maintenance of bridges and open beaches, riverbanks, lakes, and open drainage channels; maintenance of public toilets; and prevention of disturbances to communal order caused by noise.

Taking into account the importance of this regulation for ensuring communal order and the daily functioning of communal service providers, as well as its impact on the level of organization of settlements—and consequently on the quality of life and business conditions in local communities—at the request of a number of its member municipalities, the Union of Municipalities has prepared the Model Decision on Communal Order. Model_Odluka-o-komunalnom-redu_jun-2135.pdf

The Model Decision has been delivered to all local self-government units for use as support and assistance in preparing their own decisions.

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