Governing law

An NDA under Serbian law.

The clause Send NDA writes when you send from Serbia, in English and in Serbian, and what the law there changes in the rest of the agreement.

The clause

Governing Law and Jurisdiction, as it prints.

Every NDA sent under this law carries this clause. Where the recipient signs as a private individual, it adds a sentence that keeps the protections their own law gives them. Your country decides the governing law; the recipient's own country can only narrow the agreement.

12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction.

This Agreement is governed by the laws of Serbia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement are governed by the same laws, to the extent the Parties may choose the law that applies to them. The courts of Serbia have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement. The Parties' choice of courts applies only so far as the law allows them to make it; where it does not, the ordinary rules of jurisdiction apply. Either Party may nevertheless seek injunctive or other interim relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.

The Serbian text, issued beside the English under the one signature. The English is the text both sides are bound by.

12. Меродавно право и надлежност.

Овај Уговор регулисан је правом следеће јурисдикције: Србија, без примене његових колизионих норми. Свака вануговорна обавеза која произлази из овог Уговора или је са њим у вези регулисана је истим правом, у мери у којој Уговорне стране могу изабрати право које се на њу примењује. Судови следеће јурисдикције: Србија имају искључиву надлежност за сваки спор који произлази из овог Уговора или је са њим у вези. Избор суда Уговорних страна важи само у мери у којој им право допушта да га учине; где не допушта, примењују се општа правила о надлежности. Свака Уговорна страна ипак може тражити меру забране или другу привремену меру пред сваким надлежним судом.

What the law changes

What Serbian law does to the rest of the agreement.

This agreement carries no penalty for a breach. We offer one only where we have checked that the law gives it effect and in the shape that law asks for, so loss is proved and claimed in the ordinary way. Where a court holds a clause unenforceable, the agreement asks it to delete from that clause and never to rewrite it, which is what saves the rest of the agreement.

The law here asks for the agreement in Serbian, so it is issued in Serbian beside the English, inside the same document and under the one signature. Where they differ, the English is the text both sides are bound by.

A Serbian company with public capital owes Serbian and Cyrillic in its dealings
A Serbian company or other body operating with a majority holding of public capital, a research body in the same position or a national professional association must use Serbian and the Cyrillic script in its legal dealings, including offers, invoices and confirmations, on pain of a fine of 50.000 to 500.000 dinars on the company and 15.000 to 100.000 dinars on the responsible person. An ordinary private company owes nothing, and neither statute makes an English agreement void or gives a Serbian text priority. Law on the Use of the Serbian Language in Public Life arts 3(3), 3(4), 10.