Under the law, the state union's Council of Ministers proposes and Parliament decides on sending volunteers, professional soldiers, civil defence personnel and employees in Government bodies into foreign peace missions. The law does not provide for the possibility of conscripts participating in such missions.
In case of "extreme danger", the law envisages the possibility of Parliament passing a decision to withdraw troops from a foreign mission.
The adoption of the law was opposed by deputies of Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party.