The Youth and Sports Committee held its fifth sitting on 18 December, chaired by Radoslav Jevremovic, Committee Chairman. The sitting was attended by State Secretary Vlajko Senic and Assistant Ministers of Youth and Sports, Aleksandar Sostar and Ivana Kovacevic.

The Representatives of the Ministry of Youth and Sports informed the Committee members of the activities of the Ministry of Youth and Sports in the May-December 2007 period, as well as of the Plan of Activities of the Ministry of Youth and Sports for 2008. In their joint presentation they focused on the further work on creating a National Strategy for Sports Development in Serbia, legislative activities, primarily passing a new Sports Law, scholarships for perspective sportsmen and realising sportsmen’s rights to national recognitions, as well as on funding sports programmes.

The Committee members went on to exchange opinions on the presented plans.