Central

The Ministry for Culture and Information is responsible for:

• The overall legislation;
• Creating opportunities for intensive and coordinated cultural development;
• The creation of conditions for the promotion of cultural and artistic creativity;
• The search for, preservation and use of cultural property;
• The financing of current expenditures and the achievement of cultural institution programmes;
• Programmes and projects for cultural institutions, cultural associations and other
  subjects in a culture that contributes to the development of culture and arts;
• The detection, production, research, preservation and presentation of the Serbian culture and culture of national minorities in Serbia;
• Ensuring the conditions for public access to cultural heritage;
• Research, conservation and use of goods of special importance for Serbian culture;
• Construction of a unified information system in the field of cultural heritage;
• Encouraging children's and young people's creativity.

Regional
Autonomous provincial authorities are responsible for:
Looking after the implementation of cultural policy in its territory and regulating matters of provincial interest in culture within rights and obligations established by the Constitution and law;
Developing a programme for cultural development that provides funding for the budget of the Autonomous Region.

The Vojvodina Provincial Secretariat for Culture and Public Information is responsible for these issues in the territory.

Local

Municipal authorities are responsible for:

• Establishing and managing institutions and organisations related to culture.
• Taking care of the needs of citizens related to the culture in its territory and specific issues of interest to citizens, and how to achieve them, within the rights and obligations set by the Constitution and the law;
• Adopting a culture development programme in accordance with providing funding in the budget of local governments.
• Organising activities related to the protection of cultural assets of local significance, encourage the development of cultural and artistic amateur activities, and provide conditions for the work of museums and libraries, and other cultural institutions established by the Municipality;

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry for Culture and Information

Vojvodina Provincial Secretariat for Culture and Public Information
 

Sources:

Law on Culture (Official Gazette of RS, No 72/2009)

Law on Local Government, Article 18 (15)

The Vojvodina Provincial Secretariat of Culture and Public Information