Data delivery at no charge to state bodies and organizations, provincial bodies and local government units

The Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA) makes registered and recorded data available at no charge to a determined group of users on the basis of Article 5a, paras. 3 and 4 of the Law on the Serbian Business Registers Agency (RS Official Gazette No 55/2004, 111/2009 and 99/2011) and the Decision on the type, volume and mode of delivery of data and documents made available free of charge to state bodies and organizations, provincial bodies and local government units, adopted on 24 April 2012 at the Management Board meeting. The following are the users to whom the registered and recorded data and documents are made available at no charge:

  • State bodies and organizations
  • Bodies of the autonomous provinces
  • Local government units

In addition, the SBRA may also deliver data at no charge to international organizations with whom Serbia cooperates based on membership, reciprocity or treaties.

The user’s authorized person responsible for data use and protection is designated in an agreement or protocol.

If the delivery of data and documents is requested on the basis of an individual user request, and not under a special agreement or protocol, then the user is required to submit an individual act on the appointment of a person authorized to submit the request along with the request.

In case the data user appoints several authorized persons, the data and documents will be sent to one of these persons.

Important

The user will use the data and documents obtained from the SBRA in this manner solely for the purposes stated in the request for data, and will be required to take every precaution to prevent the unauthorized use of the obtained data.

The data and documents may not be reproduced and distributed for commercial purposes.

If the data and documents are used for compiling an own document or other product, the user will be required to indicate the SBRA as the data source.

Local government units may only request data pertaining to their territorial jurisdiction.

Submission of the request

The user’s authorized person is required o submit the request to the SBRA on the prescribed form which consists of a general and special section.

Click on the following link to download the mandatory general section (available only in the Serbian language):

The special part contains a list of standardized reports from which the applicant needs to select the reports according to the data selection parameters (available only in the Serbian language):

Requests are to be submitted by post or personal delivery to the SBRA head office or one of its organizational units.

Specific user requests for data and reports that, in terms of their structure, complexity and volume, are not envisaged in the Decision on the type, volume and mode of delivery of data and documents made available free of charge to state bodies and organizations, provincial bodies and local government units and the compilation of which requires additional processing of original and aggregate data, or a combination of data from various registers and records, as well as the special deployment of human and material resources, are approved by the SBRA’s director, based on the user’s reasoned request, taking into account SBRA’s capacities.

Requests for the processing and delivery of data and documents on the basis of which it cannot be established whether the requested data and documents are relevant for the performance of tasks under the user’s purview, will not be processed and the user will be notified thereof within 5 days as of the date of submission of the request.

Data delivery

The Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA) delivers original and aggregate data in the form of standardized reports from each individual register in electronic format.

Time limits for processing and delivery of data and documents

The SBRA processes the requests are delivers the data and documents within 30 days as of the date of receipt of the request, or as of the date of publication of the data on the SBRA’s website.

The time limits for the delivery of data according to specific requests are determined by the SBRA’s director, who duly informs the applicants thereof.

Definition of terms

“REGISTER” is an integrated, centralized, electronic database of data subject to statutory registration and of documents on the basis of which these are registered.

“DATABASE” is a set of data and documents systematized according to a special methodology and in a manner that ensures the availability of individual data by electronic or other means, in respect of which the Republic of Serbia exercises copyrights through the Serbian Business Registers Agency, pursuant to domestic and international regulations and standards.

“ORIGINAL DATA” is a fact subject to statutory registration or recording delivered to users individually from each of the SBRA’s registers or records.

“STANDARDIZED REPORT” entails the grouping of original and aggregated data from the registers’ and/or records’ databases, according to a determined structure and criteria, specified in the List of Standardized Reports which is an integral part of this Decision.

“DOCUMENT” is an act determined by substantive regulations, on the basis of which facts, i.e. data, are registered in the registers and records kept by the SBRA, which are made available to users, as part of the archive records and registration materials, for their needs in performing the tasks that fall under their purview.

“PUBLICATION” is the electronic display of data and documents that are subject to individual registration, recording as well as the display of reports or statements from the SBRA’s database;

“THE USER’S AUTHORIZED PERSON” is the natural person responsible for the use and protection of data designated in the user’s request for data, or in the agreement or protocol stipulated between the user and the SBRA on the basis of the Decision on the type, volume and mode of delivery of data and documents made available free of charge to state agencies and organizations, the autonomous province agencies and local government units.

Data Delivery Department