BCIF :: News :: 2011 Archives :: Promotion of the Guide for Implementing the Law on Foundations in Novi Sad

News

11-07-2011.
Promotion of the Guide for Implementing the Law on Foundations in Novi Sad

We would like to invite you to the promotion of the Guide for Implementing the Law on Foundations, which will be held in Novi Sad, on July 13th 2011 at Auditorium 1 of Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Vladike Platona Street, starting at 11 o’clock.

In November 2010 the new Law on Foundations was passed.  The registration of new foundations, and adjusting the old foundations with the new regulations officially started on March 1st 2011 and it will last for a year.

Balkan Community Initiatives Fund (BCIF) and European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) have been working on the making of the first draft of the Law in cooperation with Ministry of Culture.  With a goal to make it easier for the foundations to adjust their work to the new legal regulative and to properly prepare for the registration process, we have published the Guide for Implementing the Law on Foundations in cooperation with The Serbian Business Registers Agency.  The Guide has been prepared by Dr. Dragan Golubović, Senior Legal Counselor at ECNL, Nives Čulić, Registrar of the Register at The Serbian Business Registers Agency and Jasna Trifunović, Lawyer at Trifunović – Cvetković Law office.

The promotion of the Guide is aimed at foundations from Novi Sad and the surrounding cities, and other interested citizens.  The representatives of Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society, The Serbian Business Registers Agency and Dr. Dragan Golubović, Legal Counselor will explain the questions concerned with the new Law, as well as the registration regulations and procedures.

The Guide answers the questions on how to establish a foundation, questions related to the registration at the Register, organs, foundation’s property and the registration at the register of the foreign foundations’ representative offices and coordinating the Statute and other general acts.  The Guide contains the examples of the Statute concerning a newly-founded foundation, a foundation founded for realizing the common welfare goal, the adjusting of the existing fund and foundation and the adjusting of the already existing foundation.  Electronic version of the Guide may be viewed here, while all the participants at the promotion will receive hard copies. 

The promotion will be held in Novi Sad, on July 13th 2011 at Auditorium 1 of Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Vladike Platona Street, starting at 11 AM.  You may sign up one representative of your foundation and confirm your participation at zakon@bcif.org.  Travel expenses in the amount of a bus or train ticket will be reimbursed to the participants who are arriving from the cities outside of Novi Sad.

<<Previous                                 Next>>