In the face of the growing public deficits, tax authorities around the globe have made the regulation and enforcement of transfer pricing legislation and the underlying arm’s length principle a top priority. In Serbia, the first transfer pricing rules have been introduced in 1991. However, the actual application of the transfer pricing legislation is starting […]
On 29 December 2012, the Serbian Parliament adopted a new Law on Public Procurement (“Law”). Procurement of real estate is no longer exempted from the application of the law, while new exceptions to the application of the procurement legislation are introduced, pertaining to procurement of notarial services and procurement of goods and services required for safe production […]
Restrictive agreements i.e. agreements which have as their object or effect the significant prevention, restriction or distortion of competition, can be exempted from the prohibition if they fall within one of “group”, or as the nomenclature of the EU has it, “block” exemptions (exemptions which are applicable to certain categories of agreements). If an agreement […]
The European Commission and the US reached a deal on transatlantic transfer of personal data on 2 February 2016. For the time being it is only a political agreement which is to be transformed into a legally binding text in the coming weeks. Data transfers between the EU and US used to be operated on […]
In October 2015, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) upheld a ruling of the Personal Data Protection Agency (“Agency”) which found unlawful the use of surveillance cameras by the Ministry of Finance of Federation BiH. The judgment and the Agency ruling are among the few pronouncements by courts or data protection agencies in BiH, Serbia, or […]
A new decree on the content of merger notification (“Merger Decree“) is effective in Serbia from today, 2 February 2016. Our readers may remember that we blogged on this topic when the draft decree was out for comments. Templates for both long-form and short-form merger notifications are already on the web-site of the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition. […]
On 29 December 2015, the Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency“) issued its first conditional approval of a concentration, this time between Telemach A.D. Podgorica (“Telemach“) and M-Kabl doo Podgorica (“M-Kabl“). The concentration is a result of an indirect acquisition of full control over M-kabl by KKR & Co. L.P, registered in United States, through its […]
BDK’s Head of IP Practice Bogdan Ivanišević wrote an article for Balkan Insight, a publication of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). Bogdan analyses the legal issues at the heart of the recent failed attempt by the Serbian parliament to adopt an “authentic interpretation” of the Copyright Act that would have effectively restricted rights in […]
The Serbian Parliament has passed the Law on Amendments to the Law on Public Roads (Zakon o izmenama i dopunama zakona o javnim putevima, “Official Gazette RS” no. 104/2013) (“Amendments”), which will enter into force on 5 December 2013. A major change introduced by the Amendments pertains to the legal status of petrol stations. The Amendments […]
BDK Advokati/Attorneys at Law and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, with the support of Regional Legal Network and in cooperation with White & Case LLP, have the pleasure of inviting you to a one-day conference on State Aid and the EU Accession Process – How to Comply with the New Rules? […]
