Companies Register

THE COMPANIES REGISTER begun operating on 4 January 2005, whereby a new administrative registration procedure replaced the former company registration with the court, in order to speed up the process and improve efficiency through a unique, electronic registration system for data which are relevant to companies and indispensable for their daily legal and business transactions.

The transition to a centralized registration system produced a unique, centralized, electronic database of companies in the Republic of Serbia, containing all data subject to registration in accordance with the law and pursuant to EU directives, available on the internet, which all interested parties can quickly and easily retrieve, without the need to prove their legal entitlement.

RELEVANT REGULATIONS are available on the website:

• Law on the registration of business entities
• Company law.

WHAT IS SUBJECT TO REGISTRATION?

Mandatory data:

• Business name
• Place of business
• Date and time of foundation
• Date and time of changes
• Registration number, assigned by the Statistics Office of the Republic which, at the same time, is the number under which the company is filed in the Register
• Tax identification number (PIB)
• Legal status
• Code and description of predominant activity
• Bank account numbers
• Business name, legal status, seat and registration number of the founder, if the founder is a legal entity, or name and registration number of the founder if the founder is a natural entity
• Name and registration number of the manager and/or members of the Board of Directors
• Name and registration number of the person authorized to represent the company and restrictions of his authorities
• Registered, paid-up capital of the business entity
• Data on liquidation or bankruptcy of the business entity
• Data entries relevant for the legal transactions of the business entity
• Data on reserved business names in accordance with the law
• Annual financial reports of the business entity, written in accordance with the law that applies to business accounting.

Optional data:

• Abbreviated business name
• Business name in a foreign language
• Abbreviated business name in a foreign language
• Duration, if the company has been established for a definite period of time
• Name and registration number of the proxy
• Name and registration number of other persons authorized to represent the company and restrictions of their authorities
• Data on branch offices of the company
• Phone and fax numbers of the company
• E-mail address of the company
• Company website.