Serbia and Montenegro
Council of Ministers
Ministry of Internal Economic Affairs
REGULATORY RULES TODAY AND
TOMORROW
Analytical overview: Mr Alija Haskic, MSc
Council of Ministers
Ministry for internal economic affairs
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Sector for harmonisation and co-ordination of economic
frameworks
Sector for conducting and harmonisation of legal act appliance
Sector for legal act harmonisation with European and international
rules
 Group for agricultural and food industry
 Group for heavy industry, chemistry, energetics, civil engineering and mining
industry
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Accreditation body of Serbia and Montenegro
Institute for Intellectual Property
Institute for Measurement and Precious metals
Institute for Standardisation
Institute for Standardisation
 Creation, harmonisation and passing of standards, technical
directives, guidelines and similar documents for products,
processes and services
 Certification of products, processes and services
 Certification of systems, management of quality and of
system guidelines, environment protection
 Homology of vehicles, equipment and their parts
 Supervision of work of competent and authorised legal
entities
 Co-operation with International, regional and national
organisations in a domain of standardisation, etc.
 Regular informational updates within the region of
standardisation
Legislation in the process of
adoption
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Right Law and Related Right Law
 Patent Law
 Trade Mark Law
 Law on Designs and Models
 Law on Geographical Indications and of Origines
 Law on Protection of Topography and Integrated
Circles
Legislation in the process of
drafting and adoption
 Law
on Metodology
 Law on Standardisation
 Law on Accreditasion
 Law on Technical requirements for products
Existing regulations
According to The Law on Standardisation
and The Regulation on Technical Register,
Standardisation Office in the field its
activities, intensively works on the
preparation of JUS and in cooperation with
EU and international organizations creates
JUSs identical with ISO, EN and IEC
standards
Existing regulations
According to The Law on Standardisation and
The Regulation on Technical Register, Ministry of
Internal Economic Relations creates technical
regulations for:
-agricultural, food and other products
-industrial products and products of electroenergy and
energy, products of mining and products of construction
and hemics
During creation and adopting of regulations beside
JUS, ISO, EN and IES standards, sectors standards
are in use for products for which there is not
adopted standards. These sectors standards are
identical with one of citated standards.
Present activities
Currently, most of the technical regulations
designed before 1996 are now in force.
With the gradual changes introduced in recent years,
most of technical regulatory acts within the
agricultural and food industries are ratified in
conjunction with the EU regulatory acts.
At present procedural legal acts are being adjusted
with European Union “New Approach” directives.
Present activities
Serbia and Montenegro intends to market goods
within the following product categories:
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Electrical equipment designed for
utilisation within particular voltage boundaries,
(i.e. low-voltage device)
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Civil engineering products
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Electro-magnetic compatibility
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Equipment for personal protection
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Devices with inflammable gaseous fuels
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Medical equipment
Present activities
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Equipment and systems for protection utilised in
potentially explosive atmospheres
Packaging and container waste
Equipment under pressure
Machinery
Agricultural and food industry products
Other miscellaneous products
Technical legal acts and associated standards are
published in the official gazette.
Future activities
Under the supervision of the European Agency for
reconstruction and following the public tender, the
Danish Technology Institute was given the project
titled “Strengthening quality management,
capacity and infrastructure in Serbia and
Montenegro”.
The aim of the project is to provide technical help to
the relevant institutions responsible for the
creation and implementation of processes and
procedures. The scope of the project covers the
following areas: technical acts, standards,
metrology, accreditation, certification and
correlation assessment.
Project realisation
 Employees
training
 Harmonisation with EU
 Improvement of the existing quality plans
 Integration of institutions between Serbia
and Montenegro and EU
Project includes the promotion
of the following:
 The
general policy
 Standardisation
 Accreditation
 Metrology
 The conformity assessment
 Regulatory acts of the above defined areas