Deadline 28 September 2026: Aligning Distribution and Franchise Agreements with Serbia’s New Vertical Agreements Regulation

On 19 March 2026, the Regulation on Categories of Vertical Agreements Exempted from the Prohibition of Restrictive Agreements (Official Gazette RS No. 27/2026, the “Regulation”) has been adopted. The Regulation entered into force on 28 March 2026. On the same day, the Regulation on Agreements between Market Participants Operating at

The AI Liability Directive is gone: What governs AI-related harm in the EU now

On 11 February 2025, the European Commission formally withdrew its proposal for an AI Liability Directive (COM/2022/496), first presented in September 2022 as the civil-liability counterpart to the EU AI Act. The proposal was never adopted, so none of its provisions ever took effect. The withdrawal, however, does not leave

New Rules for Serbian Merchants: What the Trade Act Amendments and the New Consumer Protection Act Change 

The same issue of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia (No. 35/2026) contains both amendments to the Trade Act and an entirely new Consumer Protection Act. The Trade Act amendments have applied since 1 May 2026. The Consumer Protection Act entered into force the same day, but under

Protecting Trade Secrets and Confidential Data in Unfair Trading Practice Proceedings Before the Commission for Protection of Competition

The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition (KZK) has published an Instruction on the protection of data in proceedings for establishing unfair trading practices, together with a form that allows parties to precisely identify which information in their submissions should be excluded from the publicly available version of the case

Serbia’s Draft Personal Data Protection Law: What Controllers and Processors Need to Know Before 10 September – and How It Fits Alongside the EU AI Act 

On 30 July 2026, Serbia’s Ministry of Justice published a Draft Law on Personal Data Protection, which substantially expands and redesigns the framework established in 2018 – growing from 102 to 175 articles. The public consultation runs until 10 September 2026. For controllers and processors operating in or into the

Journal Article “Moral Clauses in Sports Sponsorship Agreements” published in the journal Branič

We are pleased to announce that an article authored by attorney Lucija Vranešević Grbić, founder of the law firm, titled “Moral Clauses in Sports Sponsorship Agreements,” has been published in the second issue of the journal Branič for 2026. Branič is a peer-reviewed legal journal published by the Serbian Bar

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