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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Serbia and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: 9-digit numeric; last digit is checksum. VAT-registered entities use “RS” + PIB as their EU-style VAT identifier. Verify via Poreska uprava e-services (purs.gov.rs). Registration number: 8-digit registration number assigned at incorporation; appears on all APR extracts and is the primary corporate identifier.

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Sector regulators

NBS — Narodna banka Srbije · KHoV — Komisija za hartije od vrednosti · Poreska uprava

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How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

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Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed. Not applicable in Serbia: Operating Permit. Skip these areas — no local artifact exists.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Current extract from apr.gov.rs; free public access; includes matični broj, PIB, registered capital, status, and management.
  • Constitutive Documents: Filed with and retrievable via APR. Statute (Statut) is an additional constitutive document for ADs.
  • Tax Registration: 9-digit PIB; VAT registration evidenced by “RS” + PIB prefix; confirm active VAT via Poreska uprava e-portal (purs.gov.rs).
  • Sector-Specific License: Required for banks, payment institutions, e-money institutions, insurance companies (NBS); investment firms, broker-dealers (KHoV).
  • Ownership Records: APR extract lists DOO members with stakes; AD shareholders via share register (knjiga akcionara).
  • Governance Records: Lists directors (direktori/zastupnici) of DOO, members of upravni odbor and izvršni odbor of AD, and registered prokuristi with scope.
  • Signing Authority: Prokura registered in APR; distinguish individual vs. joint prokura from extract.
  • Address: Lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
  • Good Standing: Serbia’s APR does not issue a separate Certificate of Good Standing. The Izvod iz registra privrednih subjekata (registry extract) is generated on-demand from a real-time database and shows current status — companies in winding-up carry an explicit “u likvidaciji” / “u stečaju” / “u prinudnoj likvidaciji” suffix on the name. A freshly-issued Izvod (or APR Potvrda for specific facts) serves the same compliance function.

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Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

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Notes

  • CESV law replaced in 2025; new obligations are live. The new Zakon o centralnoj evidenciji stvarnih vlasnika (eff. 2025-10-01) supersedes the 2018 law. Existing entities were required to align by 2025-11-30, uploading supporting PDFs. Changes must be reported within 15 days; annual data confirmation is mandatory. Non-compliance triggers APR “gray list” status and potential bank account restrictions.
  • Serbia is EU candidate, not member. AMLR (Reg. (EU) 2024/1624) and AMLD6 (Directive (EU) 2024/1640) do not apply directly; Serbia’s national AML framework (Zakon o sprečavanju pranja novca i finansiranja terorizma) governs. Alignment with EU Directive 2018/843 (5AMLD) was the stated policy basis for the CESV regime.
  • NBS is the integrated financial regulator. NBS supervises banks, payment institutions, e-money institutions, AND insurance — there is no separate insurance supervisory authority. KHoV (sec.gov.rs) covers securities and capital markets.
  • PIB ≠ VAT number format. The PIB alone (9-digit) is the tax ID; for VAT-registered entities the proper VAT identifier is “RS” + PIB. Not all companies are VAT-registered (threshold: RSD 8,000,000 annual turnover); confirm registration status via Poreska uprava before relying on the RS-prefix format.
  • DOO minimum share capital is nominally RSD 100 (≈€0.85). This is not a typo; Serbia removed the prior RSD 100,000 minimum. Collect the APR extract and founding act to verify actual paid-in capital rather than assuming a meaningful floor.