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Serbia legislative reforms and property registration

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In mid‑July 2026, Serbia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management presented a draft Land Consolidation Law intended to speed and digitise the merging of agricultural parcels, improve legal certainty for owners and bring Serbia’s land‑use framework closer to European Union standards. The proposal includes a new Information System to digitally track procedures and refined valuation methods. A fortnight later, the Ministry of Finance introduced amendments to the Law on Public Debt that would require public enterprises receiving state guarantees to pay a commission and tie guarantees to capital‑intensive projects. At the same time, lawmakers proposed changes to the anti‑corruption law to broaden the Agency for Prevention of Corruption’s council powers, allow cooperative agreements with foreign bodies and grant the agency greater access to officials’ assets. Critics have noted that these expanded powers could “blur responsibility lines between the Council and the agency’s director.” In August, the government submitted amendments to the Law on Special Conditions for the Recording and Registration of Rights to Real Estate to the National Assembly. To distinguish multi-generational family homes from commercial developers, land development fees for residential buildings exceeding 400 square meters will only apply to the area above that threshold. Additionally, apartment owners may register property even if a developer has failed to pay required fees, provided a notation of the unpaid debt is included. Parallel to these shifts, the Agency for Spatial Planning and Urbanism reported significant progress under the ‘Svoj na svome’ initiative. Minister of Construction, Transport, and Infrastructure Aleksandra Sofronijević reported that 333,870 cases were resolved within the first six months, with over 250,000 citizens and legal entities already registered in the cadastre. By late August, the ‘Svoj na svome’ program saw 368,663 certificates issued and over 2.5 million applications submitted, with approximately 270,000 to 280,000 properties registered. In late September, a new deadline was established for property status conversion. Citizens currently registered as holders of real estate rather than full owners must complete the conversion by May 1, 2028.

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