During 2016, Kosovo Assembly has been facing frequent lack of quorum, as in plenary sessions, as well in committee’s meeting. Adoption of laws in autumn session has almost never happened in the day it was planned, but had to be postponed for another day. Parliamentary majority and governing coalition have shown to be politically incapable to treat some of the most important topics, such as the Ratification of Agreement on Demarcation of Borderlines with Montenegro. Despite the fact that division of powers is guaranteed by the Constitution, there were cases when legislative showed tendencies to interfere in judiciary’s affairs. The most serious case was that of discussion on the decision of Court of Appeals, which actually didn’t produce a substantial debate. During this year, and the whole fifth legislature in general, has shown tends of involving in daily politics, which actually did not produce any changes. In these debates, the situation has oftentimes escalated into clashes between MPs from parliamentary majority and opposition, by using offensive and rough language, and by insults and hard charges on each other. Chairmen of plenary sessions showed to be weak, by allowing such debates. Moreover, the procedures foreseen with the Rules of Procedures were not respected. Even though boycott is considered as a democratic tool to express disagreement or protest to an issue or certain action, this has turned into a usual occurrence in the Kosovo’s Assembly. During the spring session, it was the opposition who boycotted the Assembly’s work, whilst in autumn session, is was Serbian List who boycotted the institutions. Both opposition and Serbian List returned to Assembly, although their aims and goals were not achieved, and moreover they came back divided among each other. The practice of hearing and approving of the budget with fast-track procedures and without consultation with public has continued in this year too. The budget was approved with fast-track procedures in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and now in 2017. Parliamentary oversight Parliamentary questions – Similarly to the previous year, this year Kosovo Assembly has not had good performance in it’s oversighting role. This, because all through the year only 174 parliamentary questions have been submitted. Of these, only 72 of them (41%) were answered. The most active parliamentary caucus regarding parliamentary questions is LVV with 90 questions, followed by PDK with 49, AAK with 12, NISMA with 11 and LDK with 8 parliamentary questions. Healthcare is the sector with the most questions submitted to(24). Interpellations – Only two interpellations were held during this year, which were initiated by Self-Determination Movement parliamentary caucus, toward PM Isa Mustafa. First interpellation was regarding the State Telephone Code of Republic of Kosovo, while the second one was regarding the political situation in northern Kosovo. Reporting of ministers in committees – Throughout 2016, parliamentary committees have invited ministers in reporting in 54 times. Committees were quite more active during the autumn session, compared to the spring one, since 72% of the ministers reporting were held during autumn session. This increase in number of ministers reporting is mainly a result of not proceeding draft-laws that were foreseen for this session, and which were not proceeded for review to the assembly by the government. Plenary sessions and committees meetings Plenary sessions – The Assembly has held 24 plenary sessions, 7 extraordinary sessions and 4 solemn sessions this year. Compared to the number of sessions held in 2015, there are 9 less sessions held. Committees meeting – During 2016, from 15 committees and one sub-committee that the Assembly has, in total there were 362 meetings held, that is actually a low, if we compare this number to the number of meetings that were held in 2015 (419). Public hearings – Regarding to the public hearings, this year there were 21 held, while in 2015 there were 38 such hearings held. Adoption of laws In 2016, Assembly has conducted it’s work without approving a Working Plan, as foreseen in the Rules of Procedure. Despite this, from the working plans of the committees, it was foreseen that 141 draft-laws to be adopted. During 2016, Assembly has adopted 52 of 141 laws, or only 36% as planned. Higher dynamics of adopting laws was noted during the spring session, when 35 laws were adopted, compared to autumn session, when only 17 were adopted. Main initiator of draftlaws remains the Government with 49 draft-laws initiated, followed by the Assembly with 2 laws and 1 civic initiative. 8 laws were in amending and supplementing procedure. Meanwhile, in parliamentary committees there are 19 draft laws(13%) in procedure, while 70 draft-laws (49%) are not drafted yet. Even this year, the phenomenon of adopting laws with fast-track procedures was repeated, and it occurred in 9 cases. Compared to the previous year, in 2016 there were 5 more laws that were adopted with fast-track procedure. Dialogue The topic of dialogue for normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia was discussed in 6 plenary sessions, while MPs have submitted only 10 parliamentary questions related to this topic. There were 2 resolutions that came out of emerged from the plenary sessions. From the total number of held meetings of the committees for 2016, in 7 of them, topics related to the dialogue and reached agreements between two states, were discussed.