New Engagement on Waste Management
On December 23, sent to the Republic Secretariat for Public Policy the comments on the Draft Amendments to the Law on Waste Management. The comments were previously sent to the Environment Protection Ministry on November 5, and were reiterated upon request of the Republic Secretariat. The comments that can be accessed here referred to the…
New Initiative on Conversion
On April 27, FIC provided to the Construction Ministry the proposal for the conversion of the right of land use into the right of property. In particular, the goal of the proposal is to reduce the fee to a reasonable amount or even eliminate it in this way. The good solution would decrease unpredictability of…
New Regulatory Officer
FIC has new Regulatory Officer Tanja Jovanovic who is engaged as of August 1. Tanja took responsibility for the 4 committees from Bojana Tomic-Brkusanin who left FIC to pursue her career in Digital Serbia. Tanja took responsibility for the following committees: Anti-Illicit Trade & Food, HR, Pharma Industry and Tax. Before joining FIC Tanja worked…
New Telco & Digital Economy Committee VP
We hereby wish to inform you that the Telecommunications & Digital Economy Committee has a new Vice President Dejan Peric, Director/ IT Advisory at Crowe Serbia. Dejan was elected via electronic voting on April 27-28, after the former Committee Vice President Veljko Smiljanic took the new role in his career and resigned from the position…
Next Steps on Digital Identity
As a follow-up to FIC initiative on digitalization of financial services, FIC and mobile operators discussed with the authorities the possibility to enable mobile operators to issue the electronic identities to the citizens. Fruitful meeting held on March 3 brought important conclusions and enabled planning further steps in the cooperation with the institutions participating at…
Pharma Committee Chairpersons Elected
Pharmaceutical Industry Committee Chairpersons were elected at the Committee meeting on March 27. Danilo Mijušković from Merck has been elected as President, while Jelena Mlinarević from Phoenix Pharma has been elected as Vice President. We therefore use this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to Danilo and Jelena for accepting the roles of Pharma Industry…
Pharma Industry Committee leadership elected
Pharma Industry Committee re-elected leadership in electronic voting on October 15-16. Market Access Manager at Roche Serbia Radomir Cerovic was re-elected as President, while Public Affairs Country Head and Legal Representative for Serbia and Montenegro in Sanofi-Aventis d.o.o. Beograd Semir Attar was elected as Committee Vice President on a two-year mandate. We therefore use this…
Plan for 2022 Adopted
At the first session this year on February 8, BoD adopted the FIC Work Plan – strategy for 2022, defining key activities to be pursued. The plan includes regular FIC committees elections, FIC Insight Into New Regulations, Dialogue for Change, Reality Check Conference, FIC Guide, Visit to EU Commission, White Book presentation and celebration of…
Positive changes in 2014, more vigorous reforms needed in 2015
Belgrade, 17th, December 2014 – The Foreign Investors Council held the regular annual session of the Assembly, adopting the Annual and Financial Report for 2014. Assembly meeting was also an opportunity to review past activities and discuss plans for 2015. “In 2014, FIC put greatest efforts in 3 directions: establishing close dialogue with the new…
PP for Better Law on Internship
On December 23, FIC provided to the Labour Ministry the comments on the Draft Law on Internship. FIC welcomed drafting of that Law as significant improvement, after years of advocating for regulation of this form of engagement of young people. PP drew attention to the dispositions that limit the possibilities for the potential interns, and…