The annual report is a document submitted every year by the Provincial Protector of Citizens - Ombudsman to the AP Vojvodina Assembly. The report is forwarded to the AP Vojvodina Assembly by 31 March of the current year, and covers the previous calendar year. The content of the report, time frame for its preparation and forwarding to the AP Vojvodina Assembly, as well as its mandatory publication in the public are regulated in Article 21 of the Provincial Assembly Decision on the Provincial Protector of Citizens - Ombudsman.

Upon request of the Provincial Protector of Citizens - Ombudsman, the annual report is put on the agenda and discussed in one of the AP Vojvodina Assembly sessions. Based on the Assembly discussion of the Annual Report of the Provincial Protector of Citizens - Ombudsman, the AP Vojvodina Assembly may make certain conclusions. It is important to note that the Assembly neither adopts nor approves of the Annual Report of the Provincial Protector of Citizens - Ombudsman, as it is a document by an independent provincial institution in which this institution gives its opinion of the state of play in the field of human rights on the AP Vojvodina for a particular year.