Today, May 12, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mlađan Dinkić presented the first business registration certificate issued in a faster startup procedure that take took only three days. The event, which took place in the Serbian Business Registers Agency, marked the launching of the one stop shop system of registration.
The first registration certificate complete with tax identification number (TIN) was awarded to Ms. Biljana Sekulovic-Deves, the owner of Bisal Group, a Belgrade based limited liability company registered for trade, consulting and services.
As Dinkić emphasized, with the introduction of the one stop shop system of registration, Serbia has reduced the costs and time required for starting a business, enabling the citizens to register their businesses at a single reception desk in SBRA. As of today, he underscored, SBRA, the Tax Administration, the Health Insurance Fund and the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund were electronically linked, relieving the citizens from the need to meander from one agency to another. He announced further government activities on lifting administrative barriers for business. Dinkić specified that our country currently has 8,800 laws and regulations, many of them inadequate and obsolete, which will be eliminated within a comprehensive regulatory reform.
Business Registers Agency Director Zvonko Obradović said that with introduction of the one stop shop registration, the startup procedure will be four times faster. The one stop shop system enables citizens to file an integrated application for registration with the SBRA and thus pass all the procedures that used to take place separately in SBRA, Tax Administration (TA), Health Insurance Fund (RHIF) and Pension and Disability Insurance Fund (PDIF). In the future, the four procedures will not take longer than 3 days for companies and entrepreneurs. Along with the registration certificate, SBRA will grant applicants a TIN, as well as their certificates of registration with RHIP and PDIF, Zvonko Obradović explained. He went on to say this was merely the first stage in the implementation of the one stop shop system. In the second stage, public agencies will work together on setting up a one stop shop system for filing annual accounts.
Tax Administration Director Dragutin Radosavljević said that “e-government between public agencies came into being” and expressed the hope that the process would expand to include other government agencies, the economy and citizens within the next two years, in order to simplify doing business for the citizens.
Head of Comprehensive Regulatory Reform Unit Andreja Marušić and Pension and Disability Insurance Fund Director Slobodan Zdravković also attended the presentation ceremony of the first business registration certificate issued in a streamlined procedure.