Full text of the paper:
Proceedings of the Faculty of Law, Novi Sad
2024, vol. LVIII, br. 2, p.371-393
working language: Serbian
Review paper
udk: 347.72.036:004.738.5 347.725
doi:10.5937/zrpfns58-52115
Author:
Vuk Radović
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Law in Belgrade
vuk@ius.bg.ac.rs
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0851-0198
Summary:
The general meeting of a joint stock company has traditionally been a physical meeting. In the last two decades, legislation has often allowed for so-called hybrid meetings, which allow shareholders to participate in meetings electronically, but also to physically come to the meeting venue. Finally, after the recently ended pandemic, further liberalization has occurred, and an increasing number of countries are also allowing virtual general meetings. Serbia does not currently recognize and does not allow virtual meetings, but we should advocate for their pro futuro legal regulation. The aim of this paper is to define virtual meetings precisely, to point out their advantages and disadvantages, to present selected comparative legislation regulating this type of meeting, and to analyze some specific issues that should be covered by the legal regulation of virtual meetings. In this way, the Serbian legislator would be given appropriate recommendations on how to organize this type of session, while taking into account all potential problems that the virtual nature of these sessions induces.
Key words:
joint-stock company, assembly session, hybrid session, virtual session, right to participate in the work of the assembly, right to vote, electronic voting.