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The Chamber of Commerce of Serbia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy and the Development Fund, prepared answers to the questions that businessmen sent in the previous days regarding loans for maintaining liquidity and working capital.

Regional Agency for Development and European Integration Belgrade, as part of the implementation of the "InnoSchool" project, informs Belgrade secondary schools that the application deadline for participation in the piloting of the innovative "InnoSchool learning system" during the 2020/2021 school year has been extended until 31. August.

At today's meeting, the Government of the Republic of Serbia, on the proposal of the Ministry of Economy, adopted the Program of Financial Support to Business Entities for Maintaining Liquidity and Working Capital in Difficult Economic Conditions Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The Ministry of Finance and the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia have prepared Instructions for the implementation of the Regulation on fiscal benefits and direct grants to business entities in the private sector, with the aim of easier understanding of the most important provisions of this act.

The Corona virus pandemic has particularly affected micro, small and medium-sized enterprises because sales and operations have been reduced to limited working hours and it is necessary to instruct employees to work from home wherever possible.

• When formulating the measures, we were guided by international experience, i.e. adopted measures in developed economies and neighboring countries.
• Requirements presented in the proposals for measures by numerous associations that bring together businessmen were considered.

On the proposal of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs, the Government of the Republic of Serbia concluded that the decisions to give consent for sending employees on paid leave for more than 45 working days are issued without prior submission of the employers' request for opinion to the representative trade union of the branch or activity established at the level of the Republic, with the validity period until the end of the state of emergency at the latest.

Minister of Finance Siniša Mali and President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce Marko Čadež presented a package of economic measures to mitigate the consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic on the economy, worth 5.1 billion euros, at the Palace of Serbia.

All users of loans who are in regular repayment and whose annuities are due in 2020, and who do NOT WANT TO USE the suspension of due obligations, are informed that they must submit a statement about the regular calculation of annuities to the email: moratorijum@fondzarazvoj.rs, no later than 15.04.2020. year.