Marijana Dukić Mijatović

• Juris Doctor
• Professor (Associate) at University of Novi Sad

The authors analyze two very important topics, which are intertwined, and relate to the legal regulation and application of solar energy in agriculture in our country. Solar energy reduces the costs of agricultural production in the long term and increases sustainability and competitiveness. Therefore, when it comes to the application of solar ener...

The strategy for the development of education and upbringing in the Republic of Serbia until 2030 (SROVRS 2030) was adopted by the Government on June 3, 2021, with the accompanying Action Plan for the implementation of this strategy for the period 2021-2023. The Action Plan (AP) based on which SROVRS 2030 is implemented, and later followed up on, c...

In the paper, the authors analyze the legal position of the limited liability company, primarily from the aspect of the establishment and operation of the company in comparative law. Regardless of how it is legally regulated, a limited liability company has the same basic characteristics in different national legislations. This company, which is an...

The subject of this paper is a type of letter of credit that is not commonly encountered in the practices of domestic banks. It is not specifically regulated by domestic legislation; however, its significance is expected to grow in the international business relations of our businessmen with companies from other countries where the use of this...

The paper presents and analyzes the rights of persons who has very little or no functional hearing in public life and in civil court proceedings and their right to use their natural, sign language in the procedure for providing legal protection and to use the services of a court interpreter for sign language. A licensed court interpreter for sign l...

Achieving a sustainable development should be one of the top priorities for the whole society. However, achieving a sustainable development is a complex function of different economic, social, institutional, political and historical factors. By implementing the corporate social responsibility, companies contribute to a sustainable development of th...

Cooperatives represent relevant and significant economic subjects of associations that promote the interests of their members and work affirmatively to improve their position. Since the digital economy is developing expansively, and new forms of digital technology are changing economic and other interactions every day, cooperatives must keep up wit...

The status of gender diversity in corporate governance (i.e., women's right to be part of corporate bodies) is a very important issue worldwide, including in Serbia. The paper examines women's rights from a historical perspective to address the problem of their social under-representation, especially when it comes to their social role outside the f...

The benefit of branding is especially significant for rural and insufficiently developed environment. The problems of rural environments are multidimensional, but revitalization and improvement of development leads to strengthening competitiveness of these areas. The higher price of products enables the increase of income of agricultural workers, a...

In this paper the authors analyze the provisions of the Law on Civil Procedure (2011) and opportunities for parties in litigation to hire an expert. The role of the expert is to provide professional services and prepare a private document, which contains finding and conclusions on the crucial facts for passing the sentence. The authors point out th...

Starting from the fact that perceptions of employees might be related to national culture and our previous finding that CSR perception by employees depends on company ownership, in the present research, we aim at the investigation of relations between CSR and national culture perception by employees’ dependence on company ownership in the specific...

Exchange of the drought and precipitations due to climate changes is preventing higher agrarian output. Although modern technology and methods of farm production may be the answer to this question, these raise public concerns about employment and environment quality. Because of demographic and technological lagging, some countries face other proble...

In this paper, the authors discuss the decision-making method of the UK Financial Services Ombudsman enabling more favourable outcomes for an insured person in relation to the strict application of law. The authors delineate the manner in which the Ombudsman and the courts act and present specific examples in which the Ombudsman has recognized some...

The dynamic development of the global economy and trade is additionally connected with the exponential development of digital technologies. The progressive development of information technologies, as a segment of the information society, has influenced the changes in the traditional ways of performing economic activities. Global trends in the digit...

The challenges of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility are critically discussed through the current concept of unsustainable development of the economy and society, numerous manifestations of such development, as well as the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. Indicators of unsustainable development were analyzed, in...

The authors consider the strategic directions of the development of higher education in Republic of Serbia, especially in the light of legislative news regulating dual education at higher education institutions. In this context, they have paid a special attention to the analysis of legal acts and by-laws important for the development of the profess...

The amended provisions of the Law on Enforcement and Security (2015) from 2019 envisage a new, intermediary function of public executors before initiating the enforcement procedure by regulating the mediation procedure for the purpose of voluntary settlement of the monetary claim of the executive creditor. In addition to the mediating role that the...

Iako je Republika Srbija regulisala materiju stečaja i restrukturiranja, u mnogim delovima u skladu sa Direktivom EU o restrukturiranju i stečaju iz juna 2019. godine, oblast druge šanse za preduzetnika i mogućnost otpusta njegovih dugova nije uređena, pa će u tom delu biti neophodno prilagođavanje nacionalnih propisa o stečaju. U ovom radu autori...

The article reviews the regulations of Republic of Serbia, domestic legal practice, as well as the opinions of jurisprudence on the exercise and protection of the preemptive rights of separate and pledge creditors in a bankruptcy proceedings. There has been clarified the legal nature of the preemptive right on the subject of the secured right or li...

У раду се анализира право произвођача базе података које је искључиво право које овлашћује свог носиоца да другоме забрани или дозволи да користи одређену базу података, односно збирку уређених и систематизованих података, ауторских дела или других материјала који су доступни електронским или другим путем. Међутим, база података може да буде збирка...

Sustainability is a necessity in today’s business since long-term development cannot be achieved without embracing it. The fourth industrial revolution (i.e., Industry 4.0) that introduced the digital transformation of companies is pushing the industry towards sustainable development. Human resource management (HRM), as part of the Industry 4.0 con...

Catastrophic floods are the result of interaction of hydrological phenomena and natural processes, social and economic environment. Due to influence of climate change, such extreme hydrological phenomena will be more frequent. Destructive nature of water effects can cause human casualties, evacuation and damage to the environment; it can seriously...

It is known that the Danube River is the backbone of economic development and intergovernmental cooperation of the Danube countries. In the field of environmental protection the Danube can be identified leading factor in the part relating to the planning and development of adequate environmental concept. In doing so, one should not overlook the ove...

It is known that the Danube River is the backbone of economic development and intergovernmental cooperation of the Danube countries. In the field of environmental protection the Danube can be identified leading factor in the part relating to the planning and development of adequate environmental concept. In doing so, one should not overlook the ove...

This article investigates the impact of institutional variables on economic activity (GDP) in 19 Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, covering the period 1999–2016. We utilise Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to construct a hybrid measure of economic freedom, and the Random Effect model to estimate the causalities. The analysis shows that...

Complex relations, a frequent separation of ownership, management, and control functions in banks, as well as turbulent and changeable market conditions make responsible, fair, and transparent corporate governance mechanisms extremely important for these financial institutions. "the culture" of the corporate governance is incorporated into the bank...

In this research the authors analyzed domestic legislation in order to determine the cause-effect relationship between the inflow of foreign direct investments to the dynamics in the development of domestic economy. They focused on progress of the Republic of Serbia on WB’s Doing business list for 2020, because Serbia has advanced four places and c...

Insurance distribution Directive of 2016 represents a piece of the EU legislation adopted with the aim to ensure equal conditions for all participants dealing with the sale of the insurance products and to strengthen policy holder protection. The most important novelty and one of the "most revolutionary" aspects in the insurance product distributio...

The authors analyze the protection of industrial design in Serbia, with a comparative overview of the rights of the European Union (EU) and Croatia in industrial property law. In addition to the protection of registered design, the protection of unregistered design within the framework of industrial design rights is characteristic of the EU. The un...

THE success of achieving the goals of the state economic policy, maintaining the stability of the banking system and protecting the interests of all participants in the financial market are the basis of the central bank’s policy based on its regulatory and control functions. The aforementioned functions are apparently manifested in the issuance of...

In this paper, the authors analyse the protection of a computer program in our law. There are numerous dilemmas in the United States of America, a significant representative of the software industry, as well, and also in the EU, concerning the legal framework in which legal protection can be realized. Both copyright protection and patent protection...

The right to free legal aid, guaranteed by the Constitution, is operationalized by the provisions of the Law on Free Legal Aid (2018), which provides for the legal owners of this right and the conditions under which it is acquired, the procedure for granting free legal aid and the right to remedy if the same is not approved, types of free legal ser...

The disappearance of natural resources, development of environmental awareness and need to rationalize their spending, and in order to reduce the cost of energy production, caused an increasing need for the development and use of renewable energy sources (RES).Larger use of RES would provide energy security and lower energy imports. Of all forms of...

The disappearance of natural resources, development of environmental awareness and need to rationalize their spending, and in order to reduce the cost of energy production, caused an increasing need for the development and use of renewable energy sources (RES).Larger use of RES would provide energy security and lower energy imports.Of all forms of...

The forfeiture contract consists of the sale of long-term foreign trade receivables, in which the exporter sells its foreign trade claim to a bank or some other specialized financial institute, which is not encumbered by the possibility of recourse claims of third parties to the buyer of claims, which is secured by some of the contractual security...

Industrialization, agricultural production and use of hormones, additives, pesticides, and like have influenced the increase in customers' dissatisfaction, leading to loss of their confidence in institutions responsible for food safety control. It resulted in changes and adoption of more stringent legal regulations that followed the concept 'from f...

Discussion on the exploitation of the nickel ore in Serbia has connected two different communities, academic and civic initiatives, to express their opinions on this important issue and initiate taking a stance in terms of relevant factors which are concerned with the policy in the field of environmental protection and ecological safety. At the lev...

In the hierarchy of human needs, the water plays the most important part. However, the water covers over 70% of the Earth surface and represents a crucial resource for both humans and the environment and is, by all means, the Earth greatest treasure. Unfortunately, with his inappropriate activities, the man has polluted the water and therefore caus...

The protection of new plant varieties as a form of intellectual property is generally accepted. It is a sui generis legal protection which, in the framework of industrial property rights, creates new, distinctive, stable and homogeneous plant varieties, marked with a variety label, but there is also a tendency of patent protection in the world. The...

In the recent decades, climate change, one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats has taken great attention of the scientific and political public. In this paper are discussed legal frameworks relevant for the protection of the climate change both globally and within the Republic of Serbia borders. There was also emphasised the...

It is widely known that ecological and socioeconomic functions of the land are the basis for social and economic well-being. Despite this fact, land is still a relatively neglected natural resource, which can be concluded by analyzing the pressures on the land and the lack of systematic monitoring, which involves considering the situation and defni...

In today’s world there is more than one point of view and different debates about how to determine and what constitutes the concept of nuclear security. A narrow attitude, which we can not agree with, is that it is an area that deals with issues of the model of physical security of nuclear materials. A broader interpretation of nuclear safety advoc...

Although the modern world uses common and simplified definition of energy security in the context of the availability of energy resources in sufficient quantities and at affordable prices, stability of supply, as well as physical safety of gas and oil pipelines, many countries and organisations interpret this concept in different ways, approaching...

Summary: Contemporary legal systems belonging to the European-continental legal tradition are generally oriented to the unique regulation of general civil law contracts and commercial contracts. In this case, in regulating certain types of contracts legislator prescribes special or stricter requirements for commercial contracts. However, it is impo...

This paper analyzes the relevant legislation in the field of consumer protection in the European Union and gives a comparative analysis of the legislation of the Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on their path to the European Union. All member states, as well as candidate countries or potential candidates for EU membership, have to intr...

The subject of the research, conducted by the authors of this paper was the legal aspect in the study of the correlation of termination of business entities and reduction of scope of business activities, on the one hand, and regulations, policies and activities carried out by the state to liquidate, restructure or reorganize the companies with diff...

The paper analyzes the evolution of legal transactions as basic institutes of civil law and their changes caused by dynamics of social and legal relations, primarily in legal transactions in the economy. The development and improvement of social relations is an unstoppable and progressive process. The evolution of the legal relationship between the...

Development of the Danube Region is one of the priorities of the EuropeanUnion. Connecting of fourteen countries in the Danube River Basin through theproject which includes as partners the countries outside the European Union aimsto achieve the unused potential of the economic and social development ofEurope’s largest river area. Ensuring the susta...

The contract of insurance of crops and yields against drought is based on the risk of decrease of precipitation in comparison with an earlier relevant period. The authors analysed the specificities of the case of draught risk, but also other regulations characteristic of this contractual relationship, both from the economic and the legal point of v...

The subject of the research, conducted by the authors of this paper within the project “Solving the problem of unemployment on the territory of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina - the answer to the social stratification caused by the new global recession”43 [1] was the legal aspect in the study of the correlation of termination of business entit...

Amendment to the Act on Bankruptcy from August 2014 has significantly worsened the procedural position of persons connected with the debtor through the limitation or exclusion of their rights. The introduction of the restrictive regime for related persons was explained by the need to eliminate the causes which enabled abuses and corruption. It is p...

Uncontrolled and widespread use of chemicals at a global level resulted in loss of adequate control, which led to concern about potential impact on human health and environment, among other issues. In this stage of civilisation development, we have come up to a paradoxical situation. Human, the only rational being, is doing everything to destroy on...

Air quality on a global level, as well as in Serbia and its capital and largest city Belgrade, is a serious problem. Considering that different measurements show that residents of Belgrade breathe in air which is considered harmful to health, this paper presents the monitoring of air pollution in the city considering the circumstances that exposure...

The lack of financial discipline in payments in commercial transactions between entrepreneurs and persons of public law is a perennial problem of the European economy. Late payments cause insolvency and complicate financial management of undertakings, which greatly reduces their competitiveness and profitability in the market. The risk of these adv...

The authors in this paper present the most important EU regulations in the field of legal protection of fuel quality as one specific issue within environmental protection. Through analysis of the European legislation the authors point at normative framework that is being implemented in legislation of Republic of Serbia. Special attention is focused...

Radioactive waste, which is a general term for all kinds of waste containing radioactive chemical elements and is practically unusuable, should be sorted and packed in an optimum way. Proper control and care of radiactive waste aims to keep radioactive waste stored in such a way to protect human health and the environment, not only in the current m...