How establishing company in Serbia

Part 2 qualified electronical certificate

After you  get your company foundation act from State Registering Agency (locally APR) and you finish procedure of opening bank accounts (local – obligatory and – or hard currency optional-advise to do this also). Next step is to provide legal representative with  digital or e signature . Local name for this is qualified electronical  certificate , commonly know as e signature (short). To do so , you have to go to authorized issuer. Only those issuer can you provide with legal and valid signature. List of the companies are doing so is:

1. Serbian Post Office (Javno preduzeće ’’Pošte Srbije’’)

 http://www.ca.posta.rs/

2. Serbian Chamber of Commerce (Privredna komora Srbije)

http://www.pks.rs/Usluge.aspx?tipUslugeID=2

3. Certification authority of Serbian Police (Sertifikaciono telo MUP Republike Srbije)

http://www.mup.gov.rs/cms_cir/dokumenta.nsf/e-Usluge.h

4. Halcom CA,  

http://www.halcom.rs/index.php?section=80

5. „E- Smart Systems“ d.o.o. – Smart Systems Certification Body  

 http://qca.e-smartsys.com/

Documents have to be prepared before  registration are:

  • Act of registration from APR side
  • Personal id of legal representative (personal id if the legal representative is local person, or Passport if the legal representative is foreigner)
  • Licensed signatures form. This form you can get at Notary office , nearest one

Sometime you can be asked to present documents Registration of residence for foreigners , meaning temporary residence . This document you will be provided by Police Station -Immigration office .

E signature certificate can be issued in form of plastic card with integrated chip, computer  usb (stick)  or e certificate in cloud

Finally we have to emphasize  usage of this e certificate. Below is the list of applications

1.Electronic banking

2. E-invoices

3. APR, Signing of financial statements

4. Tax Administration, E-taxes

5. Central register of compulsory social insurance

6. SAOP, miniMAX & iCenter – online bookkeeping

7. Republic Health Insurance Fund, electronically

check-in

8. eGovernment portal

9. National Bank of Serbia

10. Customs Administration, eBusiness

11. RATEL, internet counter

12. Encryption of documents (MS Office, PDF, Outlook…)