The Serbian Coordination Directorate (in Serbian Координациона управа / ''Koordinaciona uprava'') is an authority which is responsible for issuing

Serbian passport Serbian passports are issued to Serbian citizens at any age, and it is the primary document of international travel issued by Serbia. Passports are issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia), Ministry of Internal Affairs or, if the cit ...

sKako do biometrijskih dokumenata ako sam stanovnik Kosova i Metohije?
/ref> to Serbian citizens residing in

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

. In the process of granting visa-free travel to the

Schengen Area The Schengen Area ( , ) is an area comprising 27 European countries that have officially abolished all passport and all other types of border control at their mutual borders. Being an element within the wider area of freedom, security and j ...

, the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

urged

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

to found such a special authority for its citizens residing in Kosovo as the European Union considered it impossible for Serbia to evaluate the issuing of original source documents needed to apply for a passport and the integrity of the procedures applied by Serbia to check the authenticity of documents provided by applicants for that purpose.Report of the European Commission on the visa freedom roadmap for the Western Balkans
/ref> In July 2009, Serbia founded the Serbian Coordination Directorate. Serbian passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate do not allow the holder to enter the Schengen Area without a visa, even for a stay of less than three months within half a year; nor do

Kosovan passport The passport of Kosovo ( sq, Pasaporta e Kosovës; sr, Косовски пасош / ) is a travel document that is issued to the citizens of Kosovo. The document facilitates international travel as well as serving as proof of citizenship. The i ...

s. Serbian citizens with passports issued by other authorities enjoy such a privilege.

References

Government of Serbia Foreign relations of Serbia Kosovo–Serbia relations Kosovo Serbs