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NOTIFICATION

Pursuant to the Decision on determining the tariff of fees for services performed by the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina number: UV-122-01-1-296-9/21 as of 27.01.2021. (Official Gazette of BiH, No. 10/21 of 16.02.2021), there is fee in the amount of 10 KM for individual report from the Single Registry of Accounts of Business Entities in BiH based on requests in writing, with proof of payment made to the central bank account starting on 01.05.2021.

It is necessary to submit requests on the Request for issuance of reports from the Single Register of Accounts of Business Entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is an integral part of the Decision amending the Decision on the Single Register of Accounts of Business Entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina number: UV-122-01- 1-892-6 / 21 dated 29.03.2021. (Official Gazette of BiH, No. 22/21 of April 13, 2021).

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE REGISTRY

 

 

What is a Single Registry of Accounts for Business Entities?

The Single Registry of Business Entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the Registry) contains accounts of business entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina that carries out payments in Bosnia and Herzegovina via accounts opened in a commercial bank and accounts with the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 

What is the Registry Useful for?

The Registry will most help commercial banks, tax authorities, and police and other levels of authorities in detecting financial forms and transactions that companies and individuals can use in an unlawful way, such as tax evasion and money laundering. The Registry will also provide information to all legal and physical entities who are required to enforce the collection of their claims through authorized institutions. 

Who are business entities whose accounts are kept in the Registry?

Business entities whose accounts are kept in the Registry are: institutions, administrative bodies, local community bodies, other forms of organization whose establishment is registered with a competent body or established by law, legal entities or parts of legal entities, corporates, public companies, banks and other financial institutions, associations, physical entities who independently carry out the registered business activity and other business entities that have been assigned a single identification number (SIN).

 

 

REGISTRY UPDATING / MAINTAINING AND ACCESSING

  

Who operates the Registry?

The Registry is established and maintained by the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an electronic collection of business accounts’ data. 

Which data are delivered to the Registry? 

The following information on business entities are provided to the Registry:

1. Account number;
2. Kind of account;
3. Canton;
4. Municipality;
5. The name of the business entity;
6. Postal number of the business entity head office;
7. Address of the business entity head office: the street and the number;
8. The name of the city of the business entity’s head office;
9. Single identification number of the business entity;
10. Code of main activity of the business entity - old format
11. Code of main activity of the business entity - new format
12. Form of organization of a business entity;
13. The form of ownership of a business entity;
14. Account Status:
15. Date and time of last change of account status;
16. Account Type;
17. Tax Code of a Business Entity;
18. Identification number of the business entity;
19. Territorial-political community;
20. Bank ID;
21. Type of change;
22. Date and time of opening the account;
23. Date and time of closing the account;
24. Date and time when an account became the principal account;
25. Date and time of cancellation of principal account;
26. Transferred from account - account number;
27. Transferred to account - account number;

 

Who and when submits the data to the Registry?

Commercial banks and the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina are submitting the data immediately after the change in the account, and especially the data on opening and closing the account, blocking and unblocking of account and on changing the principal account. 

Who is responsible for the accuracy of the data in the Registry?

The commercial banks are exclusively responsible for the accuracy of the data in the Registry.

Who is responsible for updating the data in the Registry?

The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina is responsible for the timely collection of data changes, updates and dissemination. 

How can I access the data from the Registry?

Data from the Registry can be accessed:

1. On line direct access
2. In the form of individual reports.

 

Is Access to the Registry Charged? To whom and how much?

Free of charge direct access to data from the Registry via internet is provided to: the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the entity Banking Agencies, the institutions, the administrative bodies, the local community bodies, the commercial banks and the users to whom the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued the Approval paper according to the written request.

 

Access to the Internet Registry is possible if certain preconditions are met:

• The filled out form "Institution Access Request", with circling the option with the request on internet access to the Single Registry of Accounts, is necessary to submit together with accompanying documentation in the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina by post to: Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maršala Tita 25, Payment Systems Department, 71000 Sarajevo

• Approval of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to access SRA via the internet

• A computer with an adequate minimum configuration

• A reader and "smart" card or USB key to access to the Registry, which are personalized and entitled to a particular user within the institution

• A "smart" card or USB key are ordered from Halcom d.o.o. through the "Halcom - Request for Card Issuing to operate: SRA/CRC and ACH" form and paid for their issuance and installation by the valid price list

• For a user who has a "smart" card or USB key ordered from Halcom d.o.o. "Request for access / change of user permissions" form is completed in which one minimally circles the request permission for "access to reports for business entities" in the List of Permissions for the SRA and it is submitted to the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina by post to: Central Bank of Bosnia and Maršala Tita 25, Payment Systems Department, 71000 Sarajevo. 

When all other prior actions are performed, the internet access will be made available after payment of KM 100 monthly fee (in accordance with the Decision on Setting the Fees of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina). Payment is made in advance for the next month (or longer period) and is valid from the moment of giving access to the data.

 

REGISTRY DATA : USE, TYPE OF REPORTS, DELIVERY, TAKING OVER 

For what purposes may be used the Registry data?

All users except the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina and commercial banks may use the Registry reports solely for their own needs and may not use them for other purposes or distribute them. 

Which types of reports can be obtained from the Registry?

The following types of reports can be obtained from the Registry:

1. Report on an account of business entity,

2. Report on the history of the account status of the business entity,

3. Report on all accounts of a business entity,

4. Report that a business entity has not registered any account in the Single Registry of Accounts in BiH,

5. Report on account of business entity - principal account and

6. Report on changing the principal account of a business entity.

 

How do I submit a request for delivery of a report from the Registry - how much is it to be paid for?

The applicant submits the completed written request to the Main Unit or Branch of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina and according to the valid Decision on Setting the Fees of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina pays according to the Payment Instructions specified on the Request.

Who and how submits reports from the Registry?

The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall distribute the data from the Registry in the form of individual reports through the organizational units (Main Units and Branches) on the basis of a written request submitted to Main Unit or Branch of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The written request form can be downloaded from the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina website (link to the form) or taken over in the Main Unit and Branch of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Addresses and contacts of Main Units and Branches:

How do users take over reports from the Registry?

The report is taken over in one of the following ways:

1. in person,

2. by telefax and

3. via e-mail.

Commercial banks can also distribute data from the Registry in the form of individual reports.