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About the Central Records

The Central Records of Beneficial Owners started operating on 31 December 2018 within the Serbian Business Registers Agency, with a view to making data on the beneficial owners of legal entities and other entities registered in the Republic of Serbia readily available to competent authorities. In this manner, the Central Records are part of the system for combating money laundering and terrorism financing in the Republic of Serbia.

The Records are organized in accordance with international standards that are an integral part of Recommendations 24 and 25 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) - an intergovernmental body that sets standards in the field of combating money laundering, terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The degree of compliance of the system in Serbia with those standards is checked and evaluated by MONEYVAL, a Committee of the Council of Europe.

Relevant Regulations and Other Acts

National Risk Assessment

Subject of Recording

The Central Records contain the following information about the beneficial owner of the Registered Entity:

  1. for a domestic natural person – personal name, unique citizen identification number and country of residence;
  2. for a foreign national – personal name, passport number and country of issuance and/or personal number for a foreign national and/or number of a foreigner's identity card and country of issuance in accordance with the regulations governing the conditions for the entry, movement and stay of foreign nationals in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, day, month, year and place of birth, country of residence and citizenship;
  3. for migrants or exiles – personal name, identification number, day, month, year and place of birth and country of residence;
  4. the grounds for acquiring the capacity of beneficial owner of the Registered Entity - according to the Rulebook on the Content of the Central Records of Beneficial Owners ("Official Gazette of the RS", No. 94/18);
  5. the date of recording the data.

The Central Records also contain the following data on the Registered Entity, taken over from the competent Registers:

  1. business name, i.e. name;
  2. address of the seat;
  3. date of entry, change or deletion of data;
  4. registration number assigned by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia;
  5. tax identification number (TIN);
  6. status of the registered entity (e.g. active, in bankruptcy, undergoing liquidation, undergoing forced liquidation, deleted);
  7. legal form, i.e. form of organization;
  8. core business activity code;
  9. information about the representative;
  10. the natural person who is registered as a member of the body;
  11. registered capital;
  12. data on members, i.e. founders and the percentage of their shares, i.e. the number and percentage of their shares;
  13. abbreviated business name;
  14. business name in a foreign language;
  15. abbreviated business name in a foreign language;
  16. address for receiving post;
  17. e-mail address;
  18. bank account numbers;
  19. contact information, if registered.

Availability of BO Information

There are three different tools that enable competent authorities to obtain BO information in a timely manner:

Through the SBRA web page:

All data that make up the contents of the competent Registers of legal persons and the Central Records of Beneficial Owners are publicly available 24/7 through a Portal search (by searching the registration number of the legal person), free of charge, to all interested parties without the need to prove legal interest.

Furthermore, in accordance with the Law on the Central Records of Beneficial Owners and at the request of the interested party, the Agency shall issue, for a fee:

  1. An excerpt from the Central Records on the data on beneficial owners of the registered entity,
  2. A certificate from the Central Records containing historical data on the beneficial owners of the registered entity (the so-called 'certificate for a registered entity'),
  3. A certificate confirming that a particular natural person is or was recorded as the beneficial owner of the registered entity (the so-called 'certificate for a natural person').

The application can be filed electronically or in paper form and the Agency shall issue an excerpt or certificate in the form of an electronic document or in paper form.

The excerpt and/or document which has been ordered through the Portal in the form of an electronic document shall be available for download immediately after the payment has been made.

If you are accessing the search for the first time, you need to have created a user account through eID.gov.rs. After a successful login through the eID account, you will be automatically redirected to the SBRA system.

Through the SBRA data delivery web service:

Automated monitoring of changes and data download from the SBRA’s registers and records is realized in the form of a web service which delivers machine readable data and which has been successfully utilized for many years by a large number of users, e.g. state bodies and financial institutions, but first and foremost, banks.

Of course, along with this automatic exchange of data, the SBRA delivers original and aggregated data in the form of standardized reports from each individual register/records in electronic format upon the user's request.

Through the SBRA Web Portal Data On Click:

Lastly, the SBRA has developed a web application for advanced searches – the Web Portal Data On Click, that is ready-to-use for competent state authorities without the need to add any settings to their own software solutions. This advanced search has numerous excellent features. It is user-friendly because all data from the registers and records is aggregated and presented on one page - basic data, Tax Administration measures, construction permits, financial statements, solvency reports and scoring. Additionally, it enables searches of related companies through ownership or director as well as downloading reports containing the list of companies in which the same natural person is registered as the beneficial owner – all available with a single mouse-click!

Verifying the Identity of the BO

The Central Records of Beneficial Owners is integrated with the Central Population Register (CPR) maintained by the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. The recording of data on the identity of the beneficial owner as well as the grounds for acquiring the capacity of beneficial owner is carried out (electronically via the user application) by an authorized representative of the Registered Entity:

(1) the founder in the process of establishing a Registered Entity electronically;

(2) a person authorized to represent the Registered Entity in all other cases.

During the registration process, when entering the unique citizen identification number (“JMBG”) or foreigner registration number (“EBS”) of the beneficial owner, the existence of that natural person in the Central Population Register is automatically cross-checked, as well as the loading of data on the name and surname of that person into the Central Records of Beneficial Owners. The data contained in the CPR is presumed to be accurate, and in case of doubt to the contrary, the person whose data it is must contact the competent registry office or the authority responsible for assigning a registration number to a foreigner. Data from the Central Register of Citizens can also be checked on the eGovernment portal.

Discrepancy Reporting

Each entity subject to the law regulating AML/CFT is, until the date of the application of the Law on the Central Records of Beneficial Owners ("Official Gazette of the RS," no. 19/2025), i.e. until 15 September, 2026, obliged to report any discrepancies/differences between the data on the beneficial owner which is recorded in the Central Records of Beneficial Owners and the data obtained through the actions and measures prescribed by the law regulating AML/CFT, to the authority competent for supervising that entity.

Notifying the competent authority, as well as publishing the list of registered entities about which notifications have been received, is done without the need for the consent of the party or person to whom the data refers. Once the data is harmonized and the entity confirms that it is accurate and up-to-date, an additional notification is submitted to the authority, which then updates the published list.

The list of competent authorities to whom discrepancies are reported and who are obliged to publish on their website a list of registered entities for which they have received a discrepancy notification includes the following:

After 15 September, 2026, entities subject to the AML/CFT Law shall submit discrepancy reports via the Serbian Business Registers Agency’s Portal.

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