Members of the Bar Association of Belgrade (AKB) will gather in front of the Serbian Justice Ministry building at 11 a.m. on Monday and begin a three-day warning strike, demanding that the bill on legal practice be withdrawn from parliamentary procedure, AKB President Slobodan Soskic has stated for Tanjug.

"If the Justice Ministry, which proposed the bill, accepts our objections to the draft bill, we will end the strike," Soskic said.

The bill establishes AKB bodies, the way they are elected, the length of their mandate and their authorities, which would jeopardize the independence of legal practices, AKB believes.

However, in a statement on February 24, the Serbian Bar Association pointed out that AKB's decision to stage a strike is legally void, as it was made by a body which was divested of the right to exercise public authority.