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Sluzbeni list Crne Gore

Issues the instrument

The official gazette of Montenegro, published by the public institution JU Sluzbeni list Crne Gore, which also runs the country's legal information system (PIS). Everything the Montenegrin state enacts appears here and only here as an authentic text: Acts of the Skupstina with the President's promulgating decree printed above them, Government decrees and decisions, ministerial rulebooks, Constitutional Court decisions, and separate series for municipal regulations, international treaties and the predecessor Sluzbeni list Republike Crne Gore up to 2006. Each instrument has a record page at https://www.sluzbenilist.me/propisi/<id> which is server-rendered and carries, in plain text, the date of publication, the gazette issue, the registry number, the issuing body, the date of entry into force and often the date of first application, the EU negotiating chapter it belongs to, and the status Vazeci or Nevazeci - in force or no longer in force. The same page cross-links the instruments this one amends, the instruments that amend it, the constitutional provisions it was made under and the subordinate acts made under it, which is the cheapest way in existence to assemble a Montenegrin amendment chain. The text itself is a PDF at https://www.sluzbenilist.me/propisi/<id>/download, one file per instrument rather than one per issue. Issues are indexed by year at https://www.sluzbenilist.me/registri?type=0&year=<year> with type 0 for Sluzbeni list Crne Gore and type 3 for the pre-2006 Republican series, and each issue page lists every instrument in it with a link. Article 13 of the Constitution puts the Cyrillic and Latin scripts on an equal footing and the gazette uses both: some Acts of 2010 and 2011 and some Government decisions are printed wholly in Cyrillic, and a /cyr/ mirror of the site exists. Amending Acts are published as free-standing instruments in the classic civil-law form - 'in article N, paragraph M is replaced and reads' - and are never consolidated into the parent Act here, so the current text of a provision has to be assembled from the base Act and every amendment that touched it.

An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.

www.sluzbenilist.me

Cannot be cited for

It publishes instruments and it does not consolidate them. There is no consolidated text of any Act on this site: the regis.sluzbenilist.me legal information system that would give one is an Angular application that returns a 6 KB shell to any fetcher, and its own feature table reads as a subscription product, so it is not reachable by any tool this project has. Assembling the law in force therefore means reading the base Act plus every amending Act, and the site's own cross-reference list cannot be relied on to be complete - the record for the Zakon o crnogorskom drzavljanstvu lists four of its seven amending Acts, the record for the Zakon o porezu na dohodak fizickih lica lists ten of at least sixteen, and the record for the citizenship-by-investment decision lists none at all because the record is classified 'Neklasifikovan'. The site search is client-side only: the search box on /propisi is an Alpine.js model and a searchTerm query parameter is ignored by the server, which returns a generic list, so an instrument is found through the issue index, through a cross-link on a related record, or through an external search engine. Some record identifiers are UUIDs rather than numbers and those do not answer at /download. Two of its own PDFs are defective and must not be quoted from: the Zakon o bezbjednosti saobracaja na putevima (33/2012) extracts with a broken character map - Cyrillic a, e and o standing inside Latin words, C-circumflex for C-caron, t-cedilla for z-caron - through the body of the Act while the penalty articles come out clean, and downloading the file directly or passing it through the extraction service makes no difference. It must not be cited for anything the state has not enacted: it carries no guidance, no fee a ministry charges in practice, no processing time, no country list maintained outside a decree, and nothing at all about how an authority applies the text it prints. The status field is a useful signal and not a legal conclusion: the citizenship-by-investment decision is still marked Vazeci although its own article 18 stopped applying on 31 December 2022.

Re-check every

45 days

Publication rhythm

Continuous. Issues are numbered sequentially within a year and Montenegro publishes well over a hundred a year - issue 147 of 2026 was published on 8 October 2026 - so an instrument can appear on any working day. The Foreigners Act was amended twice in the first ten weeks of 2026; the visa regime decree has been amended eleven times since 2019 and five times in the last twelve months; the personal income tax Act was amended in November 2025, December 2025 and May 2026.

Re-check triggers

31 October 2026, when article 12c of the Uredba o viznom rezimu stops the Government granting visa exemptions by separate act, and when the time-limited exemptions in articles 1a, 3a and 6 of that decree expire · any further amendment of the Uredba o viznom rezimu, which is the only place the visa-free list lives · the regulation promised by article 60a(5) of the Zakon o strancima on the closer conditions for a digital nomad's permit, which article 216b required within 90 days of 11 August 2022 and which we have not found · the annual Odluka o utvrdjivanju godisnjeg broja dozvola za privremeni boravak i rad stranaca, due by 30 November each year under article 76 of the Zakon o strancima · any amendment of article 56 of the Zakon o strancima, which carries the 150,000 euro property-value floor introduced on 17 January 2026 · any amendment of article 9 of the Pravilnik o obrascima, blizim uslovima i nacinu izdavanja dozvole za privremeni boravak, which today states three different minimum wages in one sentence · any new Government decision made under article 3a of the Odluka o kriterijumima za utvrdjivanje naucnog, privrednog, ekonomskog, kulturnog i sportskog interesa Crne Gore, which is the enabling provision a revived citizenship-by-investment programme would use · Montenegro's accession to the European Union, which brings articles 150 to 203 of the Zakon o strancima and the further list in article 221b into application · any amendment of article 10 or article 3 of the Zakon o porezu na dohodak fizickih lica, the rate schedule and the residence test · any amendment of the Zakon o sprecavanju pranja novca i finansiranja terorizma, whose customer due diligence thresholds were rewritten on 5 May 2026

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