State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications Tatjana Matić has said that starting of today the import of certain radio and telecommunication terminal equipment (R&TT equipment) will no longer require the compliance certificate, which will significantly accelerate the trade of the equipment, and make financial savings for the importers.
Decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia on selection of goods for which import, export, or transit it is necessary to obtain certain documents, in Appendix 6, which refers to the R&TT equipment, around 40% of tariff codes are deleted.
Amendments to the Appendix 6 were accepted based on the proposal of the Sector for electronic communications and postal services of the Ministry of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications.
State Secretary has explained that the deleted tariff codes refer to over 35% of issued R&TT certificated for the last year, emphasizing that the goods which will no longer require the compliance documents, include the videoconference sets, antennas, and antenna lights, certain printers, copy machines, reproduction devices, and sound recorders, certain types of monitors, etc.
“The goods for which the tariff codes are deleted will still remain subject to control of surveillance bodies, once they enter the market, or when used in the Republic of Serbia”, says State Secretary, adding that apart from these changes, for a clearer and more transparent procedure, nomination of unmanned aircrafts – drones was done, which are not divided into several tariff codes.
Changes are in line with the liability the Republic of Serbia has undertaken with the Stabilisation and Accession Agreements and point 4 of the European Commission Conclusions from the bilateral screening for Chapter 1 – Free Movement of Goods.
Decision on selection of the goods which import, export, or transit requires certain documents was published on 13 October 2017 in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, number 92/17, and enters into force on the eight day from the day of its publication.
