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June 23, 2021

What Do Amendments to the Law on Excise Bring?

The Law amending the Law on Excise (Official Gazette of RS, no. 53/2021) entered into force on 5 June 2021 and its novelties refer to the excise for alcoholic beverages.  The reason for amendments of the law was harmonisation with the European Union regulations, i.e. its directives that regulate the field of spirits and excise taxation of this category of beverages. Alcoholic beverages, in terms of this law, are being considered:  drinks that are, depending on the raw material they are produced from and ethanol content, traded as such type of beverages under the regulation on quality and other requirements for...

June 22, 2021

Join Our Team! We Are Looking For a Senior Associate

We are currently looking for a Senior Associate to join the firm's team with particular expertise in: Corporate/Commercial Employment Dispute Resolution Candidate’s profile/experience: University degree in Law; Serbian Bar exam; At least 3 years of working experience as an attorney at law in the abovementioned practice areas; Excellent written and spoken English; Strong computer skills, specifically Paragraf Lex, Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet research skills; The candidate must be an excellent writer with analytical skills, able to handle multiple matters with independence and sound judgment; Possess a strong work ethic and strong legal research skills; Be able to create and deliver...

May 31, 2021

Employers’ Obligations Under the Law on Gender Equality and Amended Law on Prohibition of Discrimination

On 20 April 2021, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia enacted the Law on Gender Equality and amendments to the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination. Both laws are published in the Official Gazette of RS no. 52 of 24 May 2021 and will enter into force on 1 June 2021. The Law on Gender Equality will repeal the Law on Equality of Genders (Official Gazette of RS no. 104/09). The stated laws were enacted for harmonisation of legislation of the Republic of Serbia with relevant regulations of the European Union, ratified international agreements, generally accepted standards and provisions...

May 31, 2021

What Do Amendments to the Law On Mining and Geological Exploration Bring?

The Law amending the Law on Mining and Geological Exploration (Official Gazette of RS no. 40/2021) entered into force on 30 April 2021 and most important changes refer to specification of certain solutions and more detailed normative regulation of individual issues, harmonisation with legal regulations in the field of environmental protection, introduction of e-business etc. Amendments to the Law imply partial harmonisation with the regulations of the European Union and they have been enacted in accordance with the National Programme for the Adoption of the Acquis (2018 – 2021). Definitions of certain terms have been changed, such as mineral raw...

May 31, 2021

Application for Determining of Fee for Protection and Improvement of the Environment for 2021

On application in 2020 we have written in the article available here. The fee for 2021 is determined by the decision of competent authority on basis of applications of payers that are obliged to submit them no later than 31 July 2021. The application is filed on the prescribed forms where applicants enter their information, degree of negative impact on the environment – according to classification contained in special regulation, and mark the size of legal entity – according to the regulations on accounting. Application in Form 1 can be filed electronically, through LPA portal, or in paper form. Submission...

May 25, 2021

Coca-Cola Services Has Appointed Our Partner Ivana Ružičić As Their Data Protection Representative In Serbia

In accordance with the Law on Personal Data Protection (“LPDP”), our partner, attorney at law Ivana Ružičić, has been appointed as the local representative of company SA Coca-Cola Services N.V. from Belgium, a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company. Alike GDPR, the LPDP introduced an obligation of foreign controllers and processors to appoint their representatives in Serbia. Local representative may be addressed in addition to or instead of the controller i.e. processor, by data subject, data protection authority, or another person, on all issues related to data processing, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the LPDP. The Commissioner for Information...

May 25, 2021

Submission of Certain Acts in Executive Procedure Can Also Be Done Electronically

For the purpose of digitising justice, certain rulebooks have been enacted so as to accelerate executive procedures, facilitate the filing of motion for execution, as well as communication between parties and courts, public enforcement officers and other authorities. In particular, the following were published in the Official Gazette of RS no. 30/2021 of March 26, 2021: Rulebook on the manner of filing motion for execution based on enforceable or authentic document in electronic form and Rulebook on electronic submission between public enforcement officer and other authorities. Both rulebooks entered into force on April 3, 2021. Filing motion for execution in...

May 13, 2021

New Instructions For Application of the Law on Archival Materials and Services – Submission of the Archive Book Transcript Not Required Before 2022

The new Law on Archival Materials and Services („Law“), which came into force on February 2, 2021, provided obligations for creators and holders of archival material and documentary material. You may find more information on this topic in our  previous posts (available here and here). In practice, a large number of questions were raised regarding the application of the Law, especially with regard to the drafting of prescribed normative acts and the submission of transcripts of the archive book to the competent public archive. After the Historical Archive of Belgrade first published a statement on its website that the deadline...

May 10, 2021

How Expensive Are Employees’ Medical Check-Ups For Employers?

As one of the fundamental rights, the Labour Law stipulates that employees are entitled to health and safety at work, as well as health protection, according to the law and general act i.e. employment agreement. In relation thereto, the Law on Health Protection contains special provisions referring to social care for health at the level of employers and prescribes that an employer shall organise and ensure from his own funds health protection for employees, for the purpose of creating conditions for health-accountable conduct and protection of health at employee’s place of work including, among other, preventive check-ups of employees (preliminary,...

May 10, 2021

Violation of Copyright In Case of Embedding And Framing of Author’s Work From the Position of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Before competent courts in Serbia, there is an increasing number of cases in the field of intellectual property rights that are run upon complaints for infringement of copyright related to the authors’ works whose content is embedded in the webpages of respondents (registered media or third person). For clarification, the term embed that is taken over from the English language, in technical sense implies inserting/embedding of media graphic, audio or video content into electronic document (on website, e-mail). On the other hand, framing in this context means the division of webpage into several frames and the display in one of...

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