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CEVES Bilten maj 2026 - Ekonomski izazovi
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Budgetary reserve in Serbia: a non-transparent channel for discretionary spending of public money

CEVES analysis shows that the management of the current budgetary reserve in Serbia is extremely non-transparent. In a narrower scope of approximately 8 billion dinars of funds directly allocated from the current budgetary reserve, as much as 72% of the funds were allocated through the Government's General Secretariat, while for more than half of the items it is not possible to determine which budget program they belong to.

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CBAM is the first test: Serbia needs a green industrial policy that can actually be implemented

Serbia might even pass the CBAM test, but it remains far from having a genuine green industrial policy. Regulations on CBAM and the domestic carbon price are being adopted, albeit under timelines that are tight for companies. While most of the framework already exists, certain bylaws and practical procedures needed to put it into effect are still missing. In the short term, the biggest problem will be verifying the data companies submit to EU buyers and declarants. In the long term, the key challenges are an underdeveloped green industrial policy and an unconvincing pace of the energy transition. Above all, there is the looming threat that EPS (Elektroprivreda Srbije) could be brought into a carbon-charging system equivalent to the European one (EU ETS): if electricity production from coal had to pay the full cost of emissions at the EU rate, this would become an unbearable burden for the economy, households, and public finances.

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CEVES Bilten maj 2026 - Ekonomski izazovi
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