The Catalan Ombudsman, following an initial assessment of the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the Statute, finds that the decision will curtail Catalonia’s right to self-government, and the democratic objectives that validate it, such as the preferential language of administrations, although the part of the appeal affecting the Statute’s title on rights is still under deliberation.

The two-day study mission was meant to address specific aspects of citizen communication and services, while also guiding staff members from the Serbian and Belgrade Ombudsman’s Institutions in their dealings with the public, public dissemination of the institutions’ activities and promotion of the Ombudsman’s office before local administrations.