22.01.2025.
Permits for production of weapons and military equipment presented
At a ceremony held today in Belgrade, Brigadier General Slavko Rakić, Head of the Defence Technologies Department, Material Resources Sector, presented, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, permits for the production of weapons and military equipment to the representatives of businesses that met the necessary requirements and received adequate decisions in a regular procedure during 2024.
The permits are issued in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Production and Trade in Weapons and Military Equipment and the Rulebook on the Issuance of Permits for the Production of Weapons and Military Equipment.A total of 22 permits that will be valid for 2 to 5 years have been issued for the year 2024 and three of the companies have received permits for the production of weapons and military equipment for the first time. Currently, a total of 59 businesses in the Republic of Serbia have permits for the production of weapons and military equipment and there is a tendency for this number to gradually increase.
At the ceremony, General Rakić said that “the Ministry of Defence is working hard to implement the programme aiming to equip the Serbian Armed Forces with modern weapons and military equipment, for which significant funds have been allocated over the past few years”, and that “this trend will continue over the next five years”.
- The Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Defence strive to create a favourable business climate for the establishment of necessary technologies and capabilities that would provide considerable support and basis for that process, because the policy of neutrality implies having respectable armed forces and relying largely on own production of weapons and military equipment, which is our joint task – said General Rakić and added that “the third investment cycle financed by the Republic of Serbia is being prepared, which will further enhance the development and production capacities of the domestic industry and institutions of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Army.According to General Rakić, state-owned enterprises and a significant number of privately owned small and medium-sized businesses that possess permits for the production of weapons and military equipment form a special group of producers of strategic importance for Serbia. The Serbian Defence Industry, he added, is recognized all over the world today, thanks to its products.
