In several rulings issued since September of 2015, Administrative Court of the Republic of Serbia has determined unlawful practice of Serbian Tax Authority in regard to determination and collection of “Solidarity Tax” pursuant to the Law on Deduction of Net Earnings of Persons in Public Sector (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia No. 108/2013) (hereinafter: the Law on “Solidarity ...
Shortly before end of 2014, Serbian National Assembly adopted new Energy Law (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia” no.145/2014, “Energy Law”), the main feature of which was, as we noted in the December edition of Client Alert, the harmonisation of Serbian energy legislation with the Third Energy Package of the EU. The subject matter of this Legal Insight shall, ...
01 Jun 2015: Samardzic in cooperation with Specht & Partner successfully registered the trademark “Pronto Bianchi” (fig.) for Ducla Trading, one of the largest importers of food and consumer products to Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia has granted trademark protection to “Pronto Bianchi” (fig.) for the territory of the Republic of ...
27 May 2015: Samardzic in cooperation with Specht & Partner has successfully advised and represented Danos Ltd – a Serbian rolling-stock trading company with long-standing prominence in the railway sector – as plaintiff, in a dispute for breach of a joint-sale contract against a Serbian rolling stock producer. The Commercial Court in Pozarevac, Serbia, acting in first instance, has ordered ...
The Parliament of the Republic of Serbia closed its autumn session by adopting, inter alia, the new Energy Law, the Law on Amendments to the Law on Planning and Construction, and the Law on Amendments to the Law on Special Conditions for Inscription of Ownership of Facilities Constructed without Construction Permit. All three laws were published in the Official Gazette ...
We are pleased to announce Belgrade office’s release of a new bulletin - IP Insight No. 1 - intended to provide insight into the methods of legal protection of industrial designs in Serbia, both in the form of industrial design rights and as copyright work. Please contact us if you would like to learn more about IP protection in the Republic ...
Dusan Rakitic and Nikoleta Vucenovic have contributed the Serbia chapter to the 2013 edition of Getting The Deal Through – Arbitration. The article gives an overview of the laws and institutions, agreements and proceedings before and after the issuance of awards in Serbia. It is reproduced with the permission from Law Business Research Ltd. who first published the article online ...
The association ACES, which was founded recently with the support of USAID and the Serbian Government has just became an official member of the International Association of Consulting Engineers FIDIC. With membership in the FIDIC, Serbian Companies are given another avenue to further their credibility in the international business arena. In addition, the FIDIC will afford Serbian businesses the opportunity to ...
We would like to congratulate Dusan Rakitic, managing partner of Specht Belgrade, for his selection for inclusion in the inaugural edition of the Best Lawyers® list for Serbia and Montenegro. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 3 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers in the world. Dusan was ...