Protection of consumers as users of air transport services – denied boarding of passengers and lost/damaged luggage

The contractual relations between the passenger-consumer who uses the air transportation service, as one contractual party, and the airline that provides this service, as the other contractual party, are applied as authoritative provisions:

  • Law on Obligation and Fundamentals of Ownership-Legal Relations in Air Traffic (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 87/2011 and 66/2015),
  • The Montreal Convention, which the Law ratified on Confirmation of the Convention on the Unification of Certain Rules for International Air Transport (“Official Gazette of RS – International Agreements”, No. 38/2009) and
  • Law on Consumer Protection (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 88/2021).

General rules of the Law on Obligation Relations (“Official Gazette of the SFRY”, no. 29/78, 39/85, 45/89 – decision of the USJ and 57/89, “Official Gazette of the SFRY”, no. 31/93, “Official Gazette of SCG”, No. 1/2003 – Constitutional Charter and “Official Gazette of the RS”, No. 18/2020) accordingly apply to all issues that are not regulated by the regulations mentioned above. Continue reading Protection of consumers as users of air transport services – denied boarding of passengers and lost/damaged luggage

Measures of protection from unfair competiton according to Foreign Trade Act

Foreign Trade Act (“Off. Herald of RS”, Nos. 36/2009, 36/2011 – other act, 88/2011 and 89/2015 – other act) contains certain protection against unfair competition in a broader sense. In this sense by this law shall be predicted that the Government of the Republic of Serbia may prescribe the following measures of protection:

  1. Antidumping measures
  2. Compensatory measures
  3. Measures for the protection against excessive importing
  4. Measures for the protection of the balance of payments equilibrium.

Antidumping Measures

For the purposes of the Foreign Trade Act (“Off. Herald of RS”, Nos. 36/2009, 36/2011 – other act, 88/2011 and 89/2015 – other act): Continue reading Measures of protection from unfair competiton according to Foreign Trade Act

Definition and characteristics of annuity

In obligation law the annuity is understood as a form of compensation for damages whose total amount is not known at the time of making the request and it shall be paid periodically in predetermined amounts. Typically material damage that will be realized in the future is compensated by annuity.

The basis for the establishment of annuity claims is contained in the realization of the objective circumstances of unexpected adverse event.

The annuity has the following main features: