The Foreign Investors Council organized yesterday online Conference on Digitalization titled: ''Digitalization in Serbian Regulations: Possibilities and Limitations''.
The event which gathered around 100 FIC members, initiated discussion between 15 representatives from the Government from the following 7 institutions: National Bank of Serbia, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs, Customs and Tax Administration, which showed committment from the state to cooperate with FIC on improving legal framework for digitalization. The FIC chairpersons from Digital & E-Commerce, HR, Legal, Pharma and Tax Committees actively participated in the discussion.
The main aim of this conference was to open a dialogue on the subject of digitalization in Serbian legislation, to present the requirements of FIC members and also to hear the Government's plans in neuro-scientific digitalization in different areas. The idea to arrange this conference originated from FIC members who highlighted the significance of this topic and suggested this year's White Book puts the main focus on digitalization as a topic that came to the fore during pandemic of coronavirus.
The Foreign Investors Council presented subtopics of key importance including: the need to enable the widest possible utilization of electronic signatures in everyday communication and paperless business (i.e. digital bill of exchange and MTPL policies); to carry on accelerated work on digital transformation of both Customs and Tax Administration; in labour field, to continue with digitalization and simplifying the strictly formal mode of communication between employer and employee; in justice, to use the device learning and artificial intelligence which will boost the efficiency of the legal system while reducing costs and ensuring the security of human rights and freedoms; in pharma and health sectors, it is important to work on digitalization of procedures before ALIMS and National Medical health insurance Fund (RFZO), by which we mean electronic submission of requests but also further communication within the procedure, and to introduce personalized medicine which would not be possible without digitalization.
All sides agreed that digitalization is especially today, as a result of global pandemic and also the way of measuring social distancing, dependent on this moment, the present, necessity and need. The Foreign Investors Council will work on further improvement of this important segment to do business today, through the joint Working Group using the Government, hoping this conference is going to be just the first step in direction of further and deeper dialogue and, above all, their bond between the state and also the FIC members, so that we can all continue the process of digitalization in a better way so that as quickly as you possibly can.
