Covid-19: Serbia rendered the Decrees on deadlines

published on 30 March 2020 | reading time approx. 2 minutes

The Government of the Republic of Serbia rendered the Decrees on deadlines in administrative and court proceedings during the state of emergency in order to protect parties in administrative, criminal, civil and extrajudical proceedings.

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Parties in proceedings before the:

1. government bodies and organizations;

2. provincial autonomy and local government unit’s bodies and organizations;

3. public companies;

4. special regulatory bodies;

5. legal and natural persons with public authorizations,

during this state of emergency, are exempted from complying with the deadlines prescribed by law.

If notification actions and written acts in administrative procedures, from which deadlines that cannot be extended begin to run, are delivered during the state of emergency, shall be considered delivered after 15 days from the end of the state of emergency. This does not apply to acts submitted just before the state of emergency, these deadlines can expire during the state of emergency (for instance if they were delivered on 12 March 2020).

If deadlines for taking administrative actions, finalization of administrative procedures and deciding on the stated legal remedies, are expired during the state of emergency, shall be considered expired after 30 days from the end of the state of emergnecy.

The Decree on Court proceedings implies that the deadlines for filling appeals and lawsuits, motions for initiating proceedins, as well as enforcement and security proceedings, shall cease to run for the duration of the state of emergency.