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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

New benefits for citizens, businesses from eGovernment

Belgrade, 1 October 2018

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that today is a great day for entrepreneurship in Serbia, since the economy, due to the introduction of eGovernment, will no longer be imposed on the use of seals, and tax exemption measures in the first year of operation entered into force for young beginners in business.

At the National Museum, at the opening of the conference "Towards an Administration without Redundant Papers", Brnabic pointed out that for the competitiveness of our economy, which is consequently dependent on the competitiveness of the companies, jobs and salaries, it is important to be more efficient , faster, more transparent, and that is why eGovernment is one of the first priorities.

She stated that the next step is electronic archiving, and expressed the hope that the government will propose legislation for electronic archiving by the end of the year, which will come into force from January 2019.

The seal finally goes into history. In the 21^st century, its place should be nowhere else but in the museum, the Prime Minister underlined.

Brnabic also pointed out the importance of the measure that in the first year of business, young entrepreneurs who completed a high school or faculty or people who have been on the National Employment Service for more than six months, and founded a company with up to nine employees, do not pay taxes and contributions.

British Ambassador to Serbia Denis Keefe pointed out that the United Kingdom has allocated €5.2 million for the development of eGovernment in Serbia, making it the largest international donor in the region.

According to Keefe, the common goal is to create a transparent, efficient public administration in the service of citizens and economy, as well as the filing of services that save time and money to both citizens and the economy.

Zeljko Tomic from NALED pointed out that a European Commission survey showed that 95% of jobs that citizens and businesses do between themselves and before state authorities do not require physical presence and that this is therefore a solution in e-government based on data exchange, and not documents.

The conference was organised by the government of Serbia, the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Serbia and the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED).