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history(rs): score 2003 possession criminalisation and 2006 softening
Adds serbia-possession-criminalised-2003 (tightening 11->9): the 2003 amendments first criminalised non-sale possession (fine or up to three years) and raised production/sale minimums. Adds serbia-new-criminal-code-2006 (easing 9->11): the Code adopted 29 Sep 2005, in force 1 Jan 2006, with lenient penalties and remission for personal-use possession and disclosure. Read from Belgrade scholarship, the Constitutional Court bulletin and WIPO Lex. Adds a 356-word article, a research note and a maintenance-log paragraph. Chain: 1930 100->14, 1950 14->11, 2003 11->9, 2006 9->11, 2019 11->9; 0 flagged, triage 5 scored 0 open; history 39/39, answers 27/27 pass; build renders 4238 pages.
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@@ -1699,5 +1699,4 @@ was read in a Russian reprint. Two articles cover the 1987 decree and the unchanged. - A [Suriname gap pass](research/history-suriname-gap-2026-10-26.md) on 26 October 2026 adds seven entries across 1918–1999 and two articles on the 1955 law and 1999 commencement. @@ -1705,2 +1704,11 @@ The largest dated gap falls from 69 to 33 years. The 1908 import-ban narrative a passage/commencement distinction are corrected. The research note records why the existing early score aggregate still needs the full earlier legislation; no precise split is invented. + +A [Serbia gap pass](research/history-serbia-gap-2026-10-26.md) on 26 October +2026 fills the 1950–2009 gap with two scored steps read from Belgrade +criminal-law scholarship and the Constitutional Court: the 2003 amendments +first criminalising non-sale possession (tightening 11→9) and the 2005 Code, +in force 1 January 2006, softening penalties with personal-use and +disclosure remission (easing 9→11). No scored 1974 Soviet step is asserted +for the Yugoslav successors; the 2009 narrowing stays context. One article +covers the 2003 criminalisation. Today's scores are unchanged.
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@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +# Serbia: the 2003 possession criminalisation and the 2006 softening + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md` and +`WRITING.md`, the Serbia profile and its timeline before editing. No book +was used. This pass fills the 1950–2009 gap — 59 years with no entry — with +two scored steps and one article. Cameroon and the other active country +passes were left untouched. + +## Sources actually read + +- Kolarić & Marković, "Two Decades of Criminal Justice Reforms in the + Field of Combating Illegal Drugs" (University of Criminal Investigation + and Police Studies, Belgrade; PDF via the university repository), in + full: the 1976 SFRY Code's two drug articles (Art 245 production/sale, + Art 246 enabling use) with no possession offence; the 1990 equipment + offence; the 2003 FRY amendments (Official Gazette RS 39/2003) first + criminalising non-sale possession (fine or up to three years), renaming + the offence and raising production/sale minimums to five and seven years; + court use of the summary offence against dealers; the 2005/2006 Code's + more lenient penalties with remission for personal-use possession and + disclosure; the 2009 narrowing to small-quantity personal possession. +- Serbia Constitutional Court Bulletin 2/2009 (Serbian), the drug-offence + section: pre-2009 Art 246 paras 1–7 structure, possession with remission, + and the 72/09 amendments entering into force on 11 September 2009. +- WIPO Lex record for the Serbian Criminal Code: adopted 29 September + 2005, entry into force 1 January 2006 (Gazettes 85/2005 and others). +- VERTIC English translation of the 2009 amendments: Articles 95–96 split + Art 246/246a, raised the production minimum from two to three years, set + the 6-month-to-5-year cultivation offence and the small-possession + fine-or-up-to-three-years offence with remission; Article 190 gives + eighth-day entry into force (consistent with 11 September 2009). +- The English Wikipedia "Cannabis in Serbia" history section: the 1929 + Code passed 27 January 1929 and in force 1 January 1930, corroborating + the existing 1930 entry's date. + +Deliberately not done: no scored 1974 Soviet-possession step for Serbia. +Unlike the Baltic entries, the Yugoslav successor chain cannot take one +without re-scoring the checked 1950 federal-act step (its after-state is +shared by seven successor states). The SFRY 1990 equipment offence and the +1964/1990 SFRY convention ratifications are noted here but left out as too +small or covered by succession convention. + +## What changed + +- New `serbia-possession-criminalised-2003` (2003, tightening, scored, + `before` {1,1,2,1,1,0}): first criminalisation of non-sale possession, + enforcement 2→1. Step 11→9. +- New `serbia-new-criminal-code-2006` (2006-01-01, easing, scored, + `before` {1,1,1,1,1,0}): lenient penalties plus personal-use and + disclosure remission, enforcement 1→2. Step 9→11. +- The 2009 `other` entry is left untouched: its narrowing is real but + moves no segment at this scale, and the 2006-after state already equals + the 2019 `before`. +- Final chain: 1930 100→14, 1950 14→11, 2003 11→9, 2006 9→11, 2019 11→9. + Today's profile scores are unchanged, so the profile file was not edited. + +## Article + +- `articles/serbia-possession-criminalised-2003.md` (356 words, three + headings): the possession-free 1976 code, the 2003 first criminalisation, + and the 2006–2009–2019 pendulum with the 11→9→11→9 round trip. Links to + the 2006 and 2019 entries and `/country/rs/`. + +## Validation + +- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain rs`: five steps, 0 flagged. + `npm run scores:triage -- rs`: 5 scored, 0 open. +- `npm run history:test` and `npm run answers:test`: all pass. +- Production build passes; both new pages render. +- Concurrent agents' work in shared files is untouched; this commit stages + only the Serbia hunks and files.