As of February 2, 2021, the new Law on Archival
Materials is applied in Republic of
Serbia.
The most important novelty for business entities and
companies in the Republic of Serbia is the introduction
of new obligations regarding the handling of
archival material and documentary material, where the
goal of the Legislator is to induction discipline in this
area by evident introduction of procedures in a way of periodic
reporting like in the European Union.
This law is applicable to any legal
entity (
or individual) whose business activities
create archival material.
It is important to distinguish documentary material from
archival material.
Documentary
material represents all documents that are
created by the work of entities, both in the private and in
the public sector and archival material is a
specific type of documentary material that has a certain
cultural, historical, and social significance.
