CEPRIS' experts said the upgrades dealt with a ban of influence over the work of judges, but that they remained vague.

The same goes, CEPRIS adds, for unclear characteristics of a “prominent lawyer” who should be elected on the High Judiciary Council, improvements of the incompatibilityof duties and the abolition of a minister’s right to start a disciplinary procedure against judges or to dismiss them.

“The changes came as a result of the experts’ public pressure, including our own, following a working version of the draft,” CEPRIS said in a statement.

But, the statement added, the basic objections, mainly dealing with different tools of political influence, were either ignored or accepted in an inappropriate way.

The updated draft of a new constitution, which Serbia has to adopt as told by the European Union, was to be sent to the Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe, composed of independent experts in the field of constitutional law, which should have a final say.