The Media Register, which is maintained by the Serbian Business Registers Agency, continues to operate in accordance with the new Law on Public Information and Media ("Official Gazette of the RS", No. 92/2023), which enters into force on 4 November 2023.
The Agency invites media publishers, if they have not already done so, to register data on the media within three months from the date of entry into force of this law, until 4 February 2024, namely:
- the personal name and unique identification number of a domestic natural person, or passport number and country of issuance of a foreign natural person who is the editor-in-chief of the media;
- the document containing data on legal entities and natural persons who directly or indirectly have more than 5% of the share in the share capital of the publisher, data on their related parties in the sense of the law regulating the legal status of companies and data on other publishers in which these entities/persons have more than 5% share in the share capital.
If the publisher does not register the specified data within the prescribed deadline, the Registrar will delete the media from the register ex officio, without issuing a special decision on the deletion.