General Instructions

A registration procedure shall be initiated in accordance with the Law on the Procedure of Registration with the Serbian Business Registers Agency (RS Official Gazette, No. 99/2011, 83/2014, 31/2019 and 105/2021) by submitting a registration application to the Agency, either directly - at the SBRA’s head office in Belgrade, Brankova 25 or by post addressed to the Register of the Offices of Section Commissioners, Serbian Business Registers Agency, Belgrade, Brankova 25, or ex officio - if such registration is foreseen by law or is in the public interest.

If the procedure is initiated by a customer, the application shall be submitted on a prescribed form and, if there is no prescribed form, then in the form of a written request containing information on the:

1. name of the register the application is submitted to (The Register of the Offices of Section Commissioners),
2. subject-matter and type of registration,
3. applicant (name; surname; unique master citizen number/passport number - for foreign nationals; address),
4. manner of delivery of the Registrar’s decision (by post, to the designated address, or by personal delivery, at the SBRA’s head office in Belgrade).

The application for registration of establishment is prescribed by the Regulation on the Detailed Content and Procedure for Maintaining the Register of the Offices of Section Commissioners, the Documentation Required for Registration of Establishment, Amendments and Deletion, as well as the Content and Form of the Registration Application for the Establishment of the Offices of Section Commissioners Established for Participation in the Internationally Recognised Exhibition EXPO 2027 Belgrade, Serbia. Therefore, it shall be submitted on the prescribed form – The Integrated Registration Application for the Registration of the Establishment of the Offices of Section Commissioners EXPO 2027 Belgrade in the Register of the Offices of Section Commissioners and the Unified Register of Taxpayers.

Applications for registration of amendments and strike-off are not prescribed. However, the forms that facilitate registration are available on the Agency's website, in the Forms section. Notice that when submitting an application for registration of the data amendment the first page of the application (Mandatory information), containing boxes in which all of the aforementioned mandatory information (1-4) are to be entered, should always be submitted and be accompanied by the appropriate appendices, depending on the type of changes subject to registration. In doing so it is important to select an appropriate appendix, so that the information entered in the appendix is compliant to the documentation accompanying the registration application.

When a procedure is initiated upon request of a customer, the applicant must be authorized to file it.

An application for registration may be submitted by:

• representative of the Office of the Section Commissioner (the Section Commissioner or the Deputy of the Section Commissioner),
• The Organiser of the international recognized exhibition EXPO 2027 Belgrade Serbia (Organiser is EXPO 2027 d.o.o. Belgrade solely owned by the Republic of Serbia and established to prepare, organise, operate and manage the Exhibition).

In the case of submitting a registration application through the Organizer, we refer to the use of the portal prepared by the Organizer at the following link EXPO 2027 IP PORTAL.

The deadline for deciding upon an application shall be five working days from the date of its receipt by the Agency. When an application is submitted by post, the date and time of its receipt by the Agency shall be deemed as the date and time of its submission, but not the date of its submission to the post-office.

• If the registration terms have been met, the Registrar shall issue a decision to grant the application and shall publish the decision on the Agency’s internet page. Registered data and documents shall be published simultaneously with the issuance of the decision.
• If the Registrar determines that some of the registration requirements from Article 14 of the Law on the Procedure of Registration with the Serbian Business Registers Agency have not been fulfilled, the Registrar shall issue a decision rejecting the application. The applicant submits a new registration application referring to the number of the decision rejecting the former application and rectifies the identified errors in the application (if the decision rejecting the application states which documentation was not enclosed and/ or what were the deficiencies of the enclosed documentation). To remedy the deficiencies identified in the Registrar’s decision rejecting the former application, the applicant shall attach to the new application only the missing or properly compiled documentation.

Delivery of a written copy of the Registrar’s decision shall be made at the express request of the applicant. This means that the applicant must request, in the application, the delivery of the decision of the Registrar and choose one of the offered methods of delivery. A written copy of the Registrar’s decision will not be delivered if the applicant fails to do so, and s/he will be able to learn of the contents of the decision in the Data search section (see Registrar's Decisions for the selected Office of the Section Commissioner).

The methods of delivery of a written copy of the Registrar’s decision are listed below:

1. by mail, to the registered mailing address of the Office of the Section Commissioner,
2. personal delivery at the premises of the Agency’s head office,
3. by mail, to the mailing address of the applicant.

If the applicant has opted for a personal delivery at the SBRA’s head office in Belgrade or at any of the SBRA’s organizational units, the Registrar's decision may be collected by the:

• applicant,
• representative of the Office of the Section Commissioner (the Section Commissioner or the Deputy of the Section Commissioner),
• person holding the representative’s authorization.

The applicant may appeal the Registrar’s decision.

The appeal shall state the file number and date of the appealed decision, reasons for the appeal, appellant’s identification information and the appellant’s signature.

The appeal shall be submitted to the competent Minister responsible for the position of companies and other forms of business, through the Agency, within a period of 30 days from the publication of the decision.

If the applicant appeals the decision that rejected the registration application establishing the conditions which were not fulfilled and, at the same time, eliminates the deficiencies established by the decision, the actions taken to remedy the identified deficiencies shall be deemed not to have been taken, i.e. the appeal procedure will continue. This means that the appellant may not submit the missing or rectified documentation. Thus, such documentation shall not be taken into consideration if submitted along with the appeal.

If the Registrar establishes that the appeal is late, inadmissible or filed by an unauthorized person, s/he shall issue a decision rejecting the appeal.

If the Registrar establishes that the appeal is grounded, s/he shall amend the appealed decision or annul the decision on rejection of the application and issue a decision granting the said application.

If the Registrar neither rejects nor approves a duly filed appeal within five working days from the date of its receipt, s/he shall forward it to the competent Minister without delay.

The Minister shall decide upon the appeal within 30 days from the date of receipt of the appeal by the Ministry.
The decision on the appeal shall be forwarded to the Registrar, who shall deliver it to the appellant within eight days from the date of its receipt.

If a mistake was made in the Register i.e. a spelling, calculation or other evident mistake, the Registrar shall, immediately upon learning of such a mistake or within five working days upon submission of an application for rectification, proceed to rectify the mistake in the Register and inform the subject of registration (i.e. the one who submitted the request for rectification) of this, in written form.

If the Registrar learned of the mistake in the Register after receiving the application, they will immediately act in the above-stated manner and rectify the identified mistake, but reject the application because the facts from the application do not match with the data registered in the Register which acts upon the application, with an invitation to the applicant to rectify the mistake by harmonizing the data from the application and the accompanying documentation with the new state in the Register

If in the process of deciding upon a request for the rectification of a mistake the Registrar establishes that no mistake has been made, they shall issue a decision dismissing the request as unfounded.

Documents that are submitted along with the registration application in accordance with the Regulation on the Detailed Content and Procedure for Maintaining the Register of the Offices of Section Commissioners, the Documentation Required for Registration of Establishment, Amendments and Deletion, as well as the Content and Form of the Registration Application for the Establishment of the Offices of Section Commissioners Established for Participation in the Internationally Recognised Exhibition EXPO 2027 Belgrade, Serbia (RS Official Gazette, No. 101/2025) shall be submitted as an original, a certified photocopy, or as a photocopy accompanied by a statement from the Organiser confirming that the photocopy is true to the original.

A documentation drawn up in a foreign language shall be accompanied by a translation into the Serbian language certified, by a permanent certified court interpreter.

The provision of Article 3 item 3 of the Law on the Procedure of Registration with the Serbian Business Registers Agency prescribes the principle of formality, according to which the Registrar shall make decisions based on the facts contained in the application, supporting documents and registered data, without verifying the accuracy of the facts in the application, the authenticity of the attached documents and correctness and legality of the procedures through which the documents were issued, while the provision of Article 45 of the same Law stipulates that any person who submits false data to the Register, or a false or falsified document, with the intent to use such data or documents in the registration and recording procedure as real ones, shall be punished with imprisonment from three months to five years. Therefore, it is apparent that the applicant bears responsibility for the accuracy of the data entered in the registration application and the correctness and legality of the procedures through which the documents submitted along with the registration application were issued.

Hence, it is necessary to keep in mind that the Register’s competence is to register information on business entities upon request of an authorized person, who is obliged to submit the documentation stipulated by the law, as well as that the Registrar does not have the authority to examine the legality of a procedure which resulted in the resolutions attached to the application for registration, but only to perform the registration on the basis of the application and the documentation attached to it.

The data in the Register shall be kept in the Serbian language, in Cyrillic script, except for the name of the Office and the name of the Official Participant, which may be registered in Latin script. The personal name of a foreign natural person shall be registered in accordance with the international version of the personal name as written in the English alphabet in the passport or foreign identity card.

When initiating the registration procedure, it sometimes occurs that the applicants, in addition to the documentation prescribed by the Law and the related by-laws, mistakenly submit documents that are not required for the procedure in question.

Given that the Agency, i.e. the Register, cannot prevent these situations from occurring, and in order to avoid violating the principles prescribed by the provision of Article 5, paragraph 1, points 1-3 of the Law on Personal Data Protection, the applicants have been allowed to contact the Agency’s Archives in order to download the documentation containing sensitive data, which did not represent the basis for the Registrar’s decision, along with the compilation of minutes of the undertaken action.