This paper analyzes a system of penalties for minor offences according to the new Law on Minor Offences of the Republic of Serbia, which enters into force on January 1, 2007. After introduction, where the author elaborates on definition, characteristics and types of penalties that may be imposed to the offenders by the minor offences court (to natural persons and legal entities their representatives and to entrepreneurs) the author analyzes characteristics and conditions that have to be met in

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... rder to impose the penalties, warnings, protective measures and correctional measures, and he pays special attention to the newly introduced penalties (work for the common benefit and penalty points), protective measures and correctional measures and rules for their assessment. Finally, and logically for this kind of paper, the author analyzes the basis for extinguishing the penalties for minor offences.