Law on Digital Assets (Official Gazette RS No 153/2020) | Country Risk & Compliance Profiles

Plain-English summary

Regulates issuance of and services in digital assets. The NBS supervises virtual currencies and the Securities Commission digital tokens (Art. 10); a licence is needed before providing any digital asset service (Art. 4(1)), and minimum capital is EUR 20,000, 50,000 or 125,000 depending on the services provided (Art. 54).

Who it applies to

Crypto / VDA

Topics

AML / CFT / Sanctions Market Integrity & Securities Payments & Fintech / Digital Assets

Obligations arising from this law or regulation

Obligation	Timing	Regulator	Source
Licence from the NBS or Securities Commission before providing digital asset services	Before offering services	NBS	official
Art. 4(1) requires a licence from the supervisory authority before providing any digital asset service listed in Art. 3(1). The NBS is the authority for virtual currencies and the Securities Commission for digital tokens (Art. 10). Applications are decided within 60 days (Art. 57(1)).
No obligations match these filters.

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