page_title: Joint Council of Municipalities
section_title: Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities
hierarchical_section_title: Joint Council of Municipalities / Structure / Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities
caption_attribution_description: English: Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities (Croatia)
context_page_description: The Joint Council of Municipalities in Croatia is an elected consultative sui generis body which constitutes a form of cultural self-government of Serbs in the eastern Croatian borderland Danube region. The body was established in the initial aftermath of the Croatian War of Independence as a part of the international community' efforts to peacefully settle the conflict in self-proclaimed Eastern Slavonia, Baranya and Western Syrmia. Establishment of the ZVO was one of explicit provisions of the Erdut Agreement which called upon the United Nations to establish its UNTAES transitional mission.
  The Joint Council of Municipalities is not an autonomous administrative unit but a form of cultural autonomy in conformity with relevant Croatian law including provisions on local government cooperation. The body and some of its partners are actively pushing for formal legal recognition of ZVO legal personality within the Constructional Act on the Rights of National Minorities with limited success. The aim of the proposed change is to transform its current standing of a free association into more transparently institutionalized one.
context_section_description: Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities is the representative body for the Serb community in Eastern Slavonia. The Assembly is made up of elected members of the Serbian ethnic community from Eastern Slavonia regardless of their party affiliation. They are elected in parts of Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja counties. The election procedure and umber of Councillors is defined in the Statute of the Joint Council of Municipalities.
  The municipal councils in which the Serbian community constitute majority, appoints 2 Councillors to the Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities.
  The statute provides regulation for city councils in which Serb community constitute majority or minority of the population. If Serbs are majority is certain town in Eastern Slavonia they appoint the following number of Councillors:
  cities with population over 30,000- 6 Councillors
  cities with population from 10,000 to 30,000- 4 Councillors
  cities with population up to 10,000- 3 Councillors
  The municipal or city councils in which the Serbian community is a minority, appoint half these numbers.
  Most members of Council Assembly of Joint Council of Municipalities are members of Independent Democratic Serb Party. In 2017 VI Convocation was formed by 24 delegates, 2 from each of Beli Manastir, Borovo, Markušica, Trpinja, Negoslavaci, Šodolovaci, Jagodnjak and Erdut and 1 from each of Stari Jankovci, Nijemci, Darda, Kneževi Vinogradi, Popovac and Tompojevci. Deputies of Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja are appointed members of the Assembly. 2 delegates for Vukovar were not appointed in 2017 and their appointment was postponed for a short period.
caption: Number of Councilors (as constituted in 2017).
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