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Between 14 and 20 September 2026 a series of acts were published covering: hunting seasons, changes to the pay of armed forces personnel, rules for the distribution of import tariff quotas for agricultural products, and secondary legislation on the rights of persons deprived of liberty and on mandatory animal health measures. Hunting seasons start to apply on 24 September 2026, the higher coefficients and allowances for service personnel on 22 September, and the new quota distribution rules on 1 January 2027.
Fisheries and Hunting
Red deer, fallow deer, chamois and mouflon may be hunted from 1 October to 31 December, wild boar from 1 October to 31 January.
The new rulebook on hunting seasons replaces the 2009 rulebook (Official Gazette of Montenegro Nos. 34/09, 48/09 and 60/10) and sets the seasons afresh by species: under Art. 3, red deer, fallow deer, chamois and mouflon (all categories) may be hunted from 1 October to 31 December, wild boar from 1 October to 31 January, wolf from 1 October to 28 or 29 February, hare from 1 October to 31 December and pheasant from 1 October to 31 January; roe buck from 1 May to 31 August, roe doe and fawn from 1 October to 31 December, quail from 15 August to 31 October and turtle dove from 15 August to 30 September. Seasons for brown bear and wildcat are set by the individual species management plans. In controlled breeding enclosures, Art. 5 allows longer seasons: red deer from 1 September to 31 December, mouflon rams and wild boar (boar, piglet and young boar) from 1 January to 31 December. The seasons begin to apply on 24 September 2026.
Hunting days are Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays; commercial hunting may be arranged on other weekdays.
Art. 4 provides that hunting days during the season are Saturdays, Sundays, state holidays and public holidays, while for commercial hunting the holder of a hunting ground may designate other weekdays. Commercial hunting is defined as organised hunting within hunting tourism for foreign and domestic hunters who pay for organisation fees, the shooting of game, parts of game and services in the hunting ground at the price list set by the Hunting Association of Montenegro.
Defense and State Security
The coefficient for pay group I rises from 8.00 to 9.20; pilots go up to 11.00, aviation engineers to 8.50 and technicians to 3.50.
Art. 5 raises the coefficient for pay group I from 8.00 to 9.20; the other pay groups are unchanged. Art. 7 raises the coefficients by pilot qualification: pilot from 8.20 to 8.50, single-engine pilot from 8.60 to 9.00, co-pilot on multi-engine aircraft from 8.60 to 9.50, captain from 9.00 to 10.00, single-engine flying instructor from 9.00 to 10.50 and multi-engine flying instructor from 9.40 to 11.00. Art. 8 raises the coefficients for air-technical service engineers: engineer C from 2.00 to 3.00, C1 from 3.00 to 5.50, C2 from 3.00 to 8.00 and C2.1 from 3.00 to 8.50, while Art. 9 raises those for technicians: B and B1 from 0.65 to 1.00, B1.1 from 1.30 to 2.00, B1.2 from 1.60 to 2.50 and B1.3 from 3.00 to 3.50. The higher coefficients apply from 22 September 2026.
The service allowance for the Chief of the General Staff rises from 20% to 30%; a pilot flying support operations may earn up to 100%.
Art. 11 raises the military service allowance for the Chief of the General Staff from 20% to 30% of basic pay and introduces a 25% level for the Chief of Staff who is also Deputy Chief of the General Staff and for the Director-General in the Ministry of Defence; the 20%, 18%, 15% and 10% levels for other posts remain. Art. 22 widens and increases the allowance for aviation search-and-rescue operations and other operations in support of civil institutions and the public — firefighting, medical evacuation, transport, delivery of aid and searches at the request of the authorities: 50% instead of 30% for pilots during training and 100% instead of 40% during operations, with 30% and 50% respectively for other flight crew. The rules apply from 22 September 2026.
A coefficient of 5.50 is introduced for cyber operations and AI posts in the General Staff, for both military and civilian staff.
Art. 9c is a new article: basic pay for posts in cyber operations and artificial intelligence is expressed by a coefficient of 5.50 for the head of an organisational unit and for a staff officer for cyber operations and AI in the General Staff; Art. 26b sets the same coefficient for civilian staff in those posts. Those receiving this basic pay are not entitled to the allowance for managing information and communication systems or the allowance for cryptographic protection and cyber security. Art. 28 adds these posts to the formula for calculating basic pay. The rules apply from 22 September 2026.
Agriculture
Preferential quotas are allocated through a public call; only legal entities registered for import may apply.
The new rulebook on the procedure for allocating import tariff quotas replaces the 2019 rulebook (Official Gazette of Montenegro Nos. 2/19, 116/21 and 115/22) and moves the allocation of preferential quotas for agricultural products to a public-call procedure: Art. 4 requires the ministry to publish the call on its website, stating the agreement concerned, the products by tariff code, the quota volume, the supporting documents, the deadline for applications and the amount of the bank guarantee; applications on Form 1 may be filed by legal entities registered for import. Under Art. 5, a ministry commission draws up the allocation list within 30 days of the call closing, after which an import permit under the preferential regime is issued on Form 2; where applications exceed the quota volume, it is divided in proportion to the applications, taking account of traditional trade flows. The rulebook applies from 1 January 2027.
Part of the quotas is still allocated in the order customs declarations are accepted; reporting is due by the 15th of the following month.
Art. 3 keeps the chronological allocation by date of acceptance of customs declarations for part of the quotas, until the available quantity is used up; where two or more declarations are accepted on the same day, priority follows the time of acceptance recorded in the customs information system, and where the remaining quota is smaller than the quantity declared, preferential treatment is granted only for the remainder, with quota use ending when the quantity is exhausted or the period expires. Art. 6 requires the customs administration to send the ministry data on imported quantities — by agreement, tariff code, country of origin and importer — by the 15th of the month for the previous month, and to notify it without delay when an individual quota is used up. The rulebook applies from 1 January 2027.
For 2027 all quotas are allocated strictly in the order customs declarations are accepted, whatever the size of the quota.
Art. 2 sets a single rule for all quotas in 2027: allocation in chronological order of the date of acceptance of customs declarations, with no distinction as to the size of an individual quota. The allocation is carried out by the customs authority (Art. 3); for declarations accepted on the same day the order follows the customs information system, and where the remainder is smaller than the quantity declared, the preference covers only that remainder (Art. 4). Art. 5 requires data on imported quantities to be sent to the ministry by the 15th of the month for the previous month. The decision applies from 1 January to 31 December 2027.
Criminal Law
A model written notice of rights for detained persons is prescribed, from access to a lawyer to the length of detention.
The rulebook sets out the content of the written notice handed to a person deprived of liberty: Art. 2 makes the model notice an annex forming an integral part of the rulebook. The notice is based on Article 5 of the Criminal Procedure Code and covers the right to a defence lawyer and free legal aid, the grounds for deprivation of liberty, the right to use one's own language and to interpretation, the right to remain silent, the right to inspect the case file, the right to have another person informed of the detention, the right to medical assistance, and the length of deprivation of liberty and of detention. It applies from 17 September 2026.
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary
Owners of animals killed or slaughtered are entitled to compensation under Articles 69–71 of the Veterinary Act.
Point 1.5 of the programme provides for compensation for the owner of an animal that has been killed or slaughtered, and for the owner of goods and raw materials damaged or destroyed during measures against particularly dangerous infectious diseases; payment is made under Articles 69–71 of the Veterinary Act. The list covers rabies in farmed domestic animals, anthrax, brucellosis in cattle, in sheep and goats (melitococcosis) and in pigs, Q fever, trichinosis in domestic pigs, BSE, tuberculosis and enzootic bovine leukosis, scrapie, equine infectious anaemia and American foulbrood of bee brood. €81,005.97 is earmarked for compensation, paid on invoice by the 15th of the current month for the previous month, and the measure runs throughout the year.
Cattle holdings must have their records updated by 1 December, small ruminant holdings by 31 July.
Point 17.1 of the programme requires veterinary clinics to update holding records from lists sent by the administration: the actual state of the animals is checked together with the accuracy of the date of birth, sex and breed, and the veterinary information system allows only one change of sex and breed data. Animals recorded in the system but no longer present on the holding must be registered as movements — through an event where the new keeper is known (slaughterhouse, new owner, home slaughter) or as an "undefined departure" where the animal's whereabouts are unknown. The deadline is 1 December of the current year for holdings keeping cattle separately and 31 July for those keeping small ruminants separately or cattle and small ruminants together.
Budget and Tax Law
Excise duty on unleaded petrol is €0.384 per litre and on gas oils €0.308 per litre; the rates applied from 15 to 21 September 2026.
The decision set reduced excise rates for the sale of unleaded petrol (tariff codes 2710 12 31, 41, 45, 49 and 70) and of gas oils used as motor fuel (codes 2710 19 43, 46, 47 and 48 and 2710 20 11, 16 and 19): under Art. 2 the rates were €384 per 1,000 litres (€0.384 per litre) and €308 per 1,000 litres (€0.308 per litre) respectively. The rates applied from 15 to 21 September 2026, and the decision is recorded in the database as having ceased to be in force on 21 September 2026.