If you are the owner:

• A structure (a house, residential building, or commercial premises) that has not been registered in the Real Estate Cadastre;
• A structure (a house, residential building, or commercial premises) that has been registered in the Real Estate Cadastre, but with an annotation: “Structure built without a Building Permit”;
• A structure (a house, residential building, or commercial premises) for which a Building Permit was issued, but the deadline for obtaining a final Occupancy Permit has expired;
• An apartment, business premise, or other separate part within a building which has not been registered in the Real Estare Cadastre  due to a failure by the construction investor (most commonly due to failure to secure the Occupancy Permit for the building);

In such an event, the new Law on Special Conditions for the Registration of Property Rights over Structures offers a resolution regarding the regulation of the status of your structure or separate part of the building, as well as the regulation of your right over the aforementioned structure or separate part (most commonly an apartment).

For a structure or separate part of a building to be registered, it is primarily essential that it is structurally completed, which does not necessarily include the obligatory façade of the structure, nor completed works on the installation of internal utilities and the interior finishing of the structure.

In order to effect the registration of the subject structure or separate part (apartment or commercial premises), the interested party must procure:

• The legal basis for the acquisition of their rights (a contract based on which they acquired the subject unauthorised structure, a Ruling on Inheritance based on which they acquired rights over the subject structure, or any other legal basis);
• A certified declaration, provided under material and criminal responsibility of the interested party, confirming that they are the exclusive and sole owner of the subject structure or separate part (apartment or commercial premises);
• A geodetic study of the structure, should it not be visible on the satellite imagery of the Republic of Serbia, or a geodetic survey report if it pertains to a separate part of a building (apartment, commercial premises, or garage);
• Photographs of the structure or separate part with information regarding the type of structure, number of storeys, and surface area.

The registration fee, payable to the acting state authority, is remitted only after the structure’s registration. For local self-government units with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, this fee ranges from EUR 100 to EUR 150. For warehouses, storage facilities, and production plants, this fee amounts to EUR 10 per square meter (m²) of floor space. In this specific case, it is a preferential fee which can be utilised for the registration of only one structure or separate part. For every subsequent registration, this charge shall be paid in the amount of the contribution for the regulation of building land.

Following the entry into force of the subject law, the competent state authorities are obligated to establish a “digital platform” containing information on unauthorised structures, broken down by local self-government units. Upon the formation of this platform, the final deadline of 60 days for submitting the registration application shall commence.

Following the registration of the structure or separate part in the Real Estate Cadastre, the owner is also registered, who, upon completion of the procedure, acquires the exact same rights and obligations as other persons holding the right of ownership over structures built in accordance with the regular and lawful statutory procedure.

Transfer to the Ownership of the Republic of Serbia. For structures or separate parts that are not submitted for registration and formalisation within the appropriate deadline in accordance with the subject law, as well as for structures and separate parts that