Types, Requirements for Setting up and Termination of Work of Private Practice

According to provisions of Law on Health Care (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 25/2019) providers of health care are:

  • institutions of higher education of health professionals and other legal entities for which a special law stipulates that perform the tasks of health services
  • private practice
  • health care practioners who perform health activity, in accordance with the law
  • other higher education institutions and scientific-educational and scientific institutions, with the opinion of the Ministry of Health, in accordance with the law.

Requirements for Setting up of Private Practice

Private practice may be set up by:

Associations according to Law on Associations

The Law on Associations shall regulate:

  • the establishment and legal status of associations
  • their entry and deletion from the Register
  • membership and bodies
  • associations’ status changes
  • termination
  • any other issues of importance to their activities.

The present Law shall also regulate the status and operations of foreign associations.

For the purposes of the Law on Associations, an association shall be a voluntary and non-governmental non-profit organization based on the freedom of association of several individuals or bodies corporate, established in order to pursue and promote a particular shared or general goal and interest which are not prohibited by the Constitution or the law. Continue reading Associations according to Law on Associations

Registering a branch office of a foreign company in Serbia

A foreign company branch office is a separate organizational unit of a company through which the company performs activity in Republic of Serbia in accordance with the law.

A foreign company branch office does not have the capacity of a legal person, but in terms of tax have resident status.

Legal framework

Relevant regulations, whose subject is registering a branch office of a foreign company, are:

  • Copmanies Act (RS Official Gazette, Nos. 36/2011, 99/2011 and 83/2014 – other law, 5/2015, 44/2018, 95/2018, 91/2019 i 109/2021)
  • Law on the Registration Procedure in the Agency for Business Registers (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 99/2011, 83/ 2014, 31/2019 and 105/2021)
  • Rulebook on the Content of the Business Entities Register and Documents Required for Registration (RS Official Gazette, No. 42/2016) and
  • Decision on Fees for Registration and other Services Provided by the Serbian Business Registers Agency (RS Official Gazette, No. 119/2013, 138/2014, 45/2015, 106/2015, 32/2016 i 60/2016).

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