On 17 February 2008, 109 individual assemblymen of the Assembly of Kosovo signed the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, which resulted in significant controversy. On 9 April 2008, a Constitution of Kosovo was adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo in what Serbian Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić called an "illegal act".[7] On 15 June 2008 the Constitution took effect by its own terms.