Serbia Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 622,853 Serbia companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Serbia company register data is public on the Register of Companies (Регистар привредних субјеката), run by the Serbian Business Registers Agency (APR) under the Company Law. Beneficial ownership has its own portal, the Central Register of Beneficial Owners, also run by APR, overhauled by a new law enacted 14 March 2025 with most provisions in force since 1 October 2025, applying a 25% direct-or-indirect ownership or voting-rights threshold, with a control-based fallback where no one meets that level. Unlike the restricted-access model most EU states adopted after 2022, Serbia's APR UBO portal remains publicly searchable.
Serbia beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Serbia
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Serbia, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Serbia
Serbia’s central company register, run by APR (Agencija za privredne registre / Serbian Business Registers Agency, established 2004–2005), operates multiple linked registers under one roof — the Register of Companies, Register of Entrepreneurs, Register of Financial Statements, and the Central Register of Beneficial Owners — with free, no-account-required basic search at apr.gov.rs returning registered name, tax ID, legal form, directors, shareholders and filed financial statements back to roughly 2016.
Serbia’s Central Register of Beneficial Owners, in place since 2018, was substantially overhauled by a wholly new law (Official Gazette RS 19/2025, 51/2025 and 60/2025) that entered into force in March 2025, with most operative provisions applying from October 1, 2025 and existing registered entities required to comply with expanded documentation requirements — including passport or ID copies for foreign beneficial owners — by December 1, 2025. Unlike APR’s fully open company register, beneficial-ownership data is tiered: the register is described in law as a public electronic database, but full identity data is restricted to state authorities and AML-law obligors such as banks and notaries, with other parties needing to demonstrate a legitimate interest to APR to obtain an extract; the new law also anticipates future interconnection with the EU’s Central Platform “upon EU accession,” confirming that integration is not yet active since Serbia remains an EU candidate country rather than a member state.
Serbia company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
2023 figures from Serbia’s national statistical office: of 110,287 enterprises, 85.3% were micro (0-9 employees), 11.4% small, 2.7% medium, and 0.6% large (250+) — a complete size-class breakdown based on APR-processed annual financial statements. Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (RZS), Enterprises in the Republic of Serbia by Size 2023 (Working Paper No. 128, Aug 2024).
Foreign-controlled entities
Foreign-controlled enterprises (50%+ foreign capital) represented 1.4% of all Serbian business entities by count but accounted for 21.8% of employment and 35.8% of value added, per RZS’s inward FATS series — a small number of large, foreign-controlled firms alongside a much larger domestic base. Serbia’s cumulative FDI inflow from 2010–2023 totaled approximately €38.8 billion, per National Bank of Serbia data.
Who uses Serbia ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Serbia counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 100,539 Serbia entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
Get complete shareholder and officer records, ultimate beneficial owner resolution, and ongoing ownership monitoring for Serbia companies — via API or a bulk data feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many Serbia companies are in Zavia's database?
Zavia holds 622,853 company records for Serbia, of which 622,853 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Who owns companies in Serbia, and is that information public?
Serbia company register data is public on the Register of Companies (Регистар привредних субјеката), run by the Serbian Business Registers Agency (APR) under the Company Law. Beneficial ownership has its own portal, the Central Register of Beneficial Owners, also run by APR, overhauled by a new law enacted 14 March 2025 with most provisions in force since 1 October 2025, applying a 25% direct-or-indirect ownership or voting-rights threshold, with a control-based fallback where no one meets that level. Unlike the restricted-access model most EU states adopted after 2022, Serbia's APR UBO portal remains publicly searchable.
Can I see a Serbia company's shareholders and corporate structure on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 0 shareholder records for Serbia companies, with 32,715 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Can I find the directors of a Serbia company on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 1 officer and director records for Serbia companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Can I look up a Serbia company's VAT number on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 622,853 VAT records for Serbia companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Can I access financial statements for Serbia companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 100,539 digitized financial reports for Serbia companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Does Zavia offer an API for Serbia company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Serbia, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Is there a guide to verifying beneficial ownership in Serbia?
Zavia's Serbia beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.