Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Enforcement and Security Interest
The amended Law on Enforcement and Security Interest has entered into force on 3 August 2019, and shall for the most part become applicable as of 1 January 2020. The main reason for rendering the Law is to resolve all issues arising from its application, primarily by removing any flaws from certain articles that contained incomplete and insufficiently clear provisions, as well as by introducing new legal solutions.
Investment Serbia
Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights
The Law on Copyright and Related Rights has recently been amended and is in force as of 26 September 2019. The novelties provided aim to harmonize provisions of the national law with those of the relevant EU directives, establish a more efficient system of legal protection of copyright and related rights, and a more effective collective exercise of such rights.
Consulting and legal services Serbia
Working breakfast
Joint law office Cvetković, Skoko & Jovičić held a Working breakfast on 19 June 2019, in cooperation with the Serbian Association of Managers whose member is partner Goran Cvetkovic. The subject of the Working breakfast was the new Law on Personal Data Protection.
NCR campus
Appointed as legal advisor to the NCR campus project, CSJ was in charge of the due diligence report and all contracts that marked the beginning of construction of the largest technology camp of this American corporation in Europe. The campus building, whose foundation was laid in mid-May in Block 42 in Milutin Milankovic Blvd, will occupy an area of approx. 30,000 m2, with two underground levels for parking, a ground floor for retail and catering facilities, and seven additional floors offering modern office space. Attorneys Goran Cvetkovic and Mina Skoko led the team participating in the successful realization of this 90-million-dollar investment.
Doing business Serbia
Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Legalization of Facilities
Having in mind the number of illegally constructed facilities which are subject to legalization, the main reason for adopting this Law is to enable more efficient implementation of the procedure for legalization of illegally built facilities in the Republic of Serbia, and to influence adjunctively on the prevention of illegal construction as well as the disposal of such facilities.
Real estate Serbia
Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Planning and Construction
The main reason for adoption of the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Planning and Construction – which entered into force on November 6 2018 – is to introduce new legal solutions, to improve and change existing ones, as well as harmonization with the provisions of special laws that came into force after 2014, especially the Law on Electronic Commerce and the Law on General Administrative Procedure.
Real estate Serbia
How to harmonize with the new Law on Personal Data Protection
Attorney Petar Mijatovic from the Cvetkovic, Skoko & Jovicic Law Office will hold a seminar on 18 April 2019 on “How to harmonize with the new Law on Personal Data Protection”. The seminar will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in amphitheater A6 of the Belgrade Business School – Higher Education Institution for Applied Studies.
Deadline for registration in the Central Registry
In view of the recently established Central Registry of Ultimate Beneficial Owners, authorized persons of existing registered entities are obliged to, no later than 31 January 2019, register the data regarding the ultimate beneficial owner in the Central Registry, using a qualified electronic signature. Attached herewith is a bilingual guide which describes in more detail the procedures of registration in the Central Registry.
Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Company Law
Further amendments to the Company Law aim to enable the implementation of measures from the Program for Improving the Position of the Republic of Serbia on the World Bank’s Doing Business Report for the period 2018-2019.
Doing business Serbia
Aviv Park Pancevo
As advisor to BIG Israel, CSJ completed the transaction of buying Aviv Park in Pancevo. Attorneys Goran Cvetkovic and Mina Skoko headed the legal team working on this transaction.
Acquisitions Serbia