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Combating Grey Economy Committee

For reducing grey economy and introducing fair market conditions

Recognizing the problem of the grey economy, AmCham set up the Combating Grey Economy Committee to help establish an efficient legal framework and institutional mechanisms to facilitate effective oversight of illicit trade, discourage grey economy behavior, suppress corrupt practices, and ensure level playing field in the Serbian market.

Glance through Committee`s Policy Brief

The Combating Grey Economy Committee assists the Serbian Government to combat illicit trade – both on the traditional markets and the internet, creating a level playing field for law compliant businesses and diminishing the competitiveness of black and grey market players.

For reducing grey economy and introducing fair market conditions.

Recognizing the problem of the grey economy, AmCham set up the Combating Grey Economy Committee to help establish an efficient legal framework and institutional mechanisms to facilitate effective oversight of illicit trade, discourage grey economy behavior, suppress corrupt practices, and ensure level playing field in the Serbian market.

The Combating Grey Economy Committee assists the Serbian Government to combat illicit trade – both on the traditional markets and the internet, creating a level playing field for law compliant businesses and diminishing the competitiveness of black and grey market players.

Glance through Committee`s Policy Brief

Our Goals

Our focus in 2022-2024.

Improving coordination of key enforcement authorities to address illicit trade on the Internet and infringements of intellectual property rights

Regular performance reporting and amendments to the adopted sequences of procedure, continued capacity building and stronger regional cooperation of enforcement bodies; establishing optimal system for efficient and cost-effective process for warehousing and destroying of seized goods;

Improving the inspections oversight and prosecution of software piracy

Capacity building of Trade Inspection and other enforcement and judicial bodies, in setting up internal procedures and practices for efficient oversight over IP infringements in the area of software piracy;

Supporting effective prosecution of grey economy, illicit trade and IPR infringements

Enhancing capacity of the prosecution service and courts to effectively prosecute grey economy, illicit trade, and intellectual property infringements, and establish an efficient co-ordination mechanism involving inspection bodies and the judiciary. The Committee will induce cooperation through meetings, trainings and by promoting the alignment of their practices in order to achieve synergetic effects;

Keeping iIlicit trade in the spotlight

Maintaining the spotlight and focus of Government and inspection services on the illicit trade issue and the vulnerability of trade channels in economically and politically challenging period.

Committee`s greatest achievements since 2015

  • Participation in the most comprehensive reform of inspections in Serbia, which resulted in the adoption of the umbrella Law on Inspection Oversight, provideing the framework and the tools necessary for better coordination and harmonization of the inspection supervision.

 

  • Membership in the Working Group for Combating Illicit Trade within the Government`s Coordination Commission for Inspections Oversight, since its establishment in 2015, which resulted in formulating Flowcharts for inspections ovesight in 8 areas (online illicit trade, illicit trade in flour, tobacco, base oils, re-export of oil derivatives, textiles, coffee, used vehicles and spare parts).

 

  • Adoption of the Flowchart for Combating Online Illicit Trade within the Working Group for Combating Illicit Trade, which was initiated and drafted by AmCham Combating Grey Economy Committee.
  • Adoption of the Amendments to the Law on eTrade and the Law on Postal Services in 2019, that strengthened the role of enforcement bodies and enhanced penalty provisions – in line with AmCham’s suggestions.

 

 

  • Donation to the Market Inspection in the form of hardware and software tools needed for more efficient online illicit trade supervision and investigation, which resulted in the number of online illicit trade investigation rising from 300 in 2018 to around 30.000 in 2021.

 

 

  • Capacity building trainings for the Market Inspection, Ministry of Interior and Tax Administration on efficient combating of illicit trade on the internet and software piracy.

 

  • More than 10 conferences and briefing sessions organized regionaly and localy, attended by relevant public authorities, the private sector, international and local experts in the field, takling topics such as regional cooperation in combating illicit trade, online illicit trade, IPR protection, inspections coordination, risk analysis etc.

Upcoming Events

Apr 04, 2023

eInvoice System: How to organize your business processes

AmCham Srbija, Smiljanićeva 24

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AmChamps 009: Family Business, Motivation, Case study – tips&tricks

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Apr 06, 2023

MBA or Sherlock Holmes? The hard truth about the necessary management soft skills needed in the future

AmCham Serbia premises, Smiljanićeva 24

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Leadership


Chairperson

Dragana Vujko

Manager Government Affairs SEE at Philip Morris Services

Vice Chairperson

Vladimir Boljanović

Public Affairs Expert at Yettel

Greatest achievements in members opinion

Dragomir Kojić

Dragomir Kojić

Karanović & Partners

AmCham was and still is the only cross sectoral business association that had supported and is still supporting development of the regulatory framework for intellectual property protection, and works on building capacity of state authorities for implementation of the regulations. The result is modern regulatory framework, specialized parts of the administration that are dealing with these issues and decreasing level of IP infringements, despite the oversight challenges the new tech development poses.
Miloš Bogdanović

Miloš Bogdanović

MSA

The Sequence of procedures for tackling illicit trade online, adopted on AmCham`s initiative in 2018, addressed the inadequate regulatory prerequisites for tracking the delivery of illicit goods via courier services. A year later, the Law on Postal Services was adopted, obliging all postal operators to inspect the user's identity document when sending shipments, thus providing valuable information to the inspections in charge for tackling illicit trade.
Ivan Miletić

Ivan Miletić

PMI

The adoption of the umbrella Law on Inspection Oversight in 2016, in line with the suggestions of the Combating Grey Economy Committee, provided grounds for an efficient mechanism for better coordination of inspectorates – Coordination Commission for Inspections Oversight. Its working groups proved to be an excellent platform for a more constructive public-private dialogue on the key illicit trade risks and focusing the efforts of inspectorates on eliminating them.
Vladimir Tipsarević

Vladimir Tipsarević

JTI

Adoption of the Sequence of procedures for supervision of illicit trade of tobacco by the Coordination Commission for Inspections Oversight, became a model for coordinating inspections oversight in other areas such as online illicit trade, base oils, flour, coffee, textile etc.
Dragana Vujko

Dragana Vujko

PMI

Building the capacity of the inspections for efficient oversight of the illicit trade on the internet, by providing hardware and software, as well as continuous training support was our contribution to the design and implementation of internet illicit trade oversight in the last three years. The result is that the number of inspected ads has increased almost 100 times since the beginning of the software application, compared to the previous period (2020 and 2021 compared to 2019).

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