Meetings on Digitalization in Finances
In January, FIC held three meetings with the Government’s Delivery Unit and competent ministries, authorities and state bodies to discuss the digitalization of financial services. It came after FIC launched a major initiative for digitalization of financial services in Serbia, with a document providing overview of 17 measures to be implemented. First meeting was held…
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…
PP on E-Identification
On February 12, FIC sent to the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications the comments on Draft Law on Electronic Documents, E-Identifications and Trust Service in E-Business. General comments concern rationalization of process and insurance contracts. When it comes to the rationalization of process, FIC view is that the processes of identification and authentication of…
PP on Electronic Communications Law
On July 1, FIC sent to the Telecommunications Ministry the Position Paper on the Draft Law on Electronic Communications. Overregulation was outlined as one of the key problems, as the efficient application of the Law can be achieved with less regulation. PP says that the relations between the Law and other laws should be defined….
Presentations on West Balkans Agreements
FIC members had the opportunity to hear from the competent ministries on the recently ratified West Balkans Agreements within Open Balkan Initiative Conferences were organized on March 15 and 16 to review the impact on the Agreements in the following areas: food safety and electronic identification schemes. On March 15, cooperation in veterinary, phytosanitary and…
PRESIDENT OF THE FIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS & DIGITAL ECONOMY COMMITTEE INTERVIEW FOR FIC GUIDE 2021/2022
Daniel Šušnjar, President of the FIC Telecommunications & Digital Economy Committee (Telenor d.o.o.) Removing Administrative Obstacles is Important For The 5G Network The key priorities of our committee in the following period are to work on the adoption of the new Law on Electronic Communications, amendments to regulations governing the field of environmental protection and…
Proposal on E-Identification
On April 29, FIC approached the Trade and Telecommunications Ministry to propose easing the procedures for issuing the medium level electronic identification schemes, in particular to exclude the requirement of physical presence of the client. It is in line with the Draft Amendments to the Law on Electronic Document and Identification that envisages issuing of…
Telco& Digital Economy Committee Created
Telecommunication & Digital Economy Committee was the last one to be established as part of the reorganization of FIC working committees in 2020. It is created in November by merging FIC Telecommunications and Digital & E-Commerce Committees. In electronic voting on November 23-24, the Committee elected leadership. Namely, Daniel Šušnjar, Public, Regulatory and Privacy Director…
WB Presented to Belgrade Chamber of Commerce
On December 22, FIC presented key findings from the White Book on digitalization to the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce. Current situation was reviewed, and main FIC proposals were presented. The introductory address was held by the Regulatory Officer Jelena Lazarevic, while the presentation was delivered by the representative of the Telecommunications and Digital Economy Committee…