Donations Programme

Foreign donations and humanitarian assistance are received in accordance with the Law on Donations and Humanitarian Aid adopted in September 2001 (“FRY Official Gazette“, No. 53/2001). Subject to this law, donations may be given to government bodies, local government units, public enterprises, public institutions, other organizations and non-profit communities, as well as domestic and foreign humanitarian organizations.

Pursuant to the Law, donations and humanitarian assistance may be provided in kind, in services, money, securities, ownership and other rights.

All activities pertaining to the planning, provision and use of foreign donations and humanitarian assistance are coordinated by the Republic of Serbia’s Ministry of Finance.

Donations in foreign currency to government bodies and organizations are paid through NBS accounts abroad in line with Article 36, paragraph 1 of the Law on Foreign Exchange Operations (“RS Official Gazette“, No. 62/2006).

In the 2000-January 2010 period, foreign exchange in the equivalent value of USD 513,365,910.52 was paid to the credit of the above accounts, which, broken down by year, amounts to:

Donations in kind to government bodies and organizations subject to intergovernmental agreements are recorded in off-balance sheet accounts with the NBS. Intergovernmental agreements on donations in kind have so far been signed with the governments of the People’s Republic of China and Japan.