In several rulings issued since September of 2015, Administrative Court of the Republic of Serbia has determined unlawful practice of Serbian Tax Authority in regard to determination and collection of “Solidarity Tax” pursuant to the Law on Deduction of Net Earnings of Persons in Public Sector (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia No. 108/2013) (hereinafter: the Law on “Solidarity ...
Shortly before end of 2014, Serbian National Assembly adopted new Energy Law (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia” no.145/2014, “Energy Law”), the main feature of which was, as we noted in the December edition of Client Alert, the harmonisation of Serbian energy legislation with the Third Energy Package of the EU. The subject matter of this Legal Insight shall, ...
01 Jun 2015: Samardzic in cooperation with Specht & Partner successfully registered the trademark “Pronto Bianchi” (fig.) for Ducla Trading, one of the largest importers of food and consumer products to Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia has granted trademark protection to “Pronto Bianchi” (fig.) for the territory of the Republic of ...
27 May 2015: Samardzic in cooperation with Specht & Partner has successfully advised and represented Danos Ltd – a Serbian rolling-stock trading company with long-standing prominence in the railway sector – as plaintiff, in a dispute for breach of a joint-sale contract against a Serbian rolling stock producer. The Commercial Court in Pozarevac, Serbia, acting in first instance, has ordered ...
22 April 2015: Samardzic in cooperation with Specht & Partner advised System Industrie Electronic Holding AG from Austria on its acquisition of a controlling share in Tagor Electronic, a closely-held manufacturer of electronic devices based in Niš, South-Eastern Serbia. Originally founded in 1994 in Lustenau, Austria, System Industrie Electronic Holding AG manages a ...
The Belgrade-based member of the Specht & Partner law firm has been listed again by Legal 500 in the practice areas Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions and Privatization, as well as Real Estate and Construction. Dušan Rakitić, the managing partner of the Belgrade Office, has been recommended for the Corporate Law, M&A and Privatization practice area. In the Legal 500 2015 ...
The Parliament of the Republic of Serbia closed its autumn session by adopting, inter alia, the new Energy Law, the Law on Amendments to the Law on Planning and Construction, and the Law on Amendments to the Law on Special Conditions for Inscription of Ownership of Facilities Constructed without Construction Permit. All three laws were published in the Official Gazette ...
Dusan Rakitic, managing partner of Specht Boehm Belgrade, has been selected as “Lawyer of the Year” for Corporate Law in the third edition of the Best Lawyers® list for Serbia and Montenegro. Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is being honored as the "Lawyer of the Year". Dusan was also one of twelve Serbian lawyers ...
Attorney-at-law, Jelena Obradović, an associate of the firm based in Belgrade, participated as a speaker at the Conference on 21st Century Borders, held on 13 June 2014 in Lancaster, United Kingdom. Jelena Obradović spoke on the topic “The International Court of Justice as the forum for settling territorial disputes”, as a member of a panel ...
We are pleased to announce Belgrade office’s release of a new bulletin - IP Insight No. 1 - intended to provide insight into the methods of legal protection of industrial designs in Serbia, both in the form of industrial design rights and as copyright work. Please contact us if you would like to learn more about IP protection in the Republic ...