Obtaining Company Information – The powers of the
authorities to gather information during criminal
investigations
A new Criminal Procedure Code ("Code") was enacted in
Serbia in October 2013.
A very significant change in criminal proceedings, the new Code
has introduced the new concept of investigative proceedings into
the process. Whereas previously investigative proceedings were
handled by an Investigative Judge, the new Code makes the Public
Prosecutor responsible for carrying out and directing the
investigation, which is intended to speed up investigation
procedures and to make them more efficient.
The new Code also introduced changes to the provisions
regulating the search of premises, which also includes the search
of companies during investigative proceedings. A search of any
premises (including the premises of companies) can be carried out
if there is a probability that evidence for a certain criminal
offence may be found via the search. The general
