Negotiating a contract regularly requires spending money before the contract exists: design work, experts, documentation, sometimes the start of performance itself. When no contract follows, the question is who carries those costs. Serbian law answers it in Article 30 of the Law on Obligations, and the case law of recent

In late 2024, the European Union adopted a comprehensive reform of its design law framework – Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Directive (EU) 2024/2823 – modernizing a legal architecture that had stood largely unchanged since 2001 and 1998. The reform proceeds in two phases. Phase I, which entered into force on

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

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

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

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