SERBIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Aleksandar Ristić and Stefan Šilobad, Law Office Miroslav Stojanović
on ownership rights, usage rights, mortgages, ease - ments, etc. While general information may be freely accessed online, a more detailed search is available only to certain types of registered users (eg, public notaries and qualified attorneys-at-law). The Company Register – ie, the Register of Commercial Entities (Registar privrednih subjekata) This is a public register that contains information on commercial entities registered in Serbia. The regis - ter is maintained by the Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA, Agencija za privredne registre ) and is accessible by inserting either the business name or registration number of the scrutinised entity. Aside from general corporate information, and depending on the legal form of the entity in question, the regis - ter also includes information on shareholders, share capital, legal representatives (eg, managing directors), registered bank accounts, etc. As well as active legal entities, the register also contains information on legal entities that are subject to insolvency or liquidation proceedings. The Register of Financial Statements (Registar finansijskih izveštaja) This is a central public electronic database, main - tained by the SBRA, which contains records of pub - lished financial statements concerning the legal enti - ties registered in the Register of Commercial Entities, in line with the Serbian Law on Accounting ( Zakon o računovodstvu ). Consulting the information contained in the register makes it easy to monitor a legal entity’s overall business performance in the Serbian market. The Central Register of Ultimate Beneficial Owners (Centralna evidencija stvarnih vlasnika) This is maintained by the SBRA and allows the deter - mination of the (indirect) commercial owners of legal entities in Serbia. Although the register is publicly accessible, one must be registered with the Serbian e-Government ( e-Uprava ) platform to do so. The Pledge Register (Registar založnog prava) This is maintained by the SBRA and contains informa - tion on pledge rights on movable property and other rights (eg, shares in companies). The register is fully public and available online.
The Bankruptcy Cases Database (Baza podataka o stečajnim postupcima) This is an online database maintained by the Serbian Insolvency Supervision Agency ( Agencija za licen- ciranje stečajnih upravnika ), which publishes key infor - mation on the status of ongoing insolvency proceed - ings, including information on the insolvency debtor, the insolvency court and its decisions, the appointed insolvency administrator and its reports, etc. The Unified Register of Accounts (Jedinstveni registar računa) This is maintained by the National Bank of Serbia (NBS, Narodna banka Srbije ) and contains information on all dinar (RSD) and foreign currency accounts held by legal entities (ie, companies and entrepreneurs) and natural persons (ie, citizens), opened with commercial banks, the Treasury Administration ( Uprava za trezor ) and the NBS itself. The register also contains up-to- date information on whether the account is active or frozen due to forced collection. While information on accounts of companies and entrepreneurs is publicly available online, information on accounts of citizens may only be accessed based on the request of author - ised bodies (eg, courts, public bailiffs etc). Registers and databases held with the Serbian Intellectual Property Bureau (Zavod za intelektualnu svojinu) These include the Trade Mark Register ( Registar žigova ), the Patent Register ( Registar patenata ), the Design Database ( Baza podataka industrijskih dizajna ), etc. These registers and databases are fully accessi - ble to the public and contain information on national intellectual and industrial property rights and their holders. Additional public registries in Serbia contain impor - tant data useful for the assessment of the financial status of the scrutinised entity, including the regis - tered promissory notes, court prohibitions, temporary suspensions of rights by public authorities, financial leasing contracts, etc. Various private companies also consolidate informa - tion from some of the public sources listed above, and provide subscription-based overviews of the current status and financial standing of legal entities in Serbia.
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