Value-based civil work is where the Serbian point-value tariff does most of its work. Each procedural action earns a number of points (poenaThe tariff point of the Serbian Advokatska tarifa — one poen = 50,00 RSD (čl. 15, as amended by 56/2025). Each procedural action is awarded a number of points (poena), and the fee is the point count multiplied by the poen value, plus 20 % PDV.Glossary →) read off the Tar. br. 13 banded scale of the Advokatska tarifaThe lawyers' tariff of the bar association, used in both Serbia and Montenegro. In Serbia it is a point-value (poen) scale (Tarifa o nagradama i naknadama troškova za rad advokata, “Sl. glasnik RS” 43/2023 i 56/2025, čl. 23 Zakona o advokaturi); in Montenegro it is a direct-euro scale (Advokatska tarifa AKCG, “Sl. list CG” 132/2025, čl. 15 st. 2 Zakona o advokaturi). In both it sets reference lawyer fees per procedural action — a semi-binding default, not a mandatory floor.Glossary →, and the fee is poena × 50,00 RSD (čl. 15), with 20% PDV added on top (čl. 13). The court charges its own separate fee — the sudska taksaSerbia's court fee (Zakon o sudskim taksama + Taksena tarifa) — the state charge to bring or pursue a case, a base-plus-percentage scale on the claim value capped at 105.000 RSD, separate from the lawyer's fee and carrying no PDV.Glossary → — under Tar. br. 1 of the Taksena tarifa, a base-plus-percentage scale on the full claim value capped at 105.000 RSD. The two numbers are computed independently and on different scales; this group covers the four case types that read the value scale on at least one side.
Civil claim, first instance (parnični postupak)
The headline civil case: a money or property claim brought before the basic or higher court (osnovni/viši sud) on an ascertainable value. The fee model is a composite — the initiating pleading (tužba) earns the Tar. br. 13 point award, and each substantive hearing (ročište) re-awards the same points under Tar. br. 15.
You file it whenever a private dispute over a quantifiable sum reaches court — unpaid invoices, damages, contract performance — and an out-of-court settlement has failed.
Lawyer fee — Tar. br. 13 i Tar. br. 15. The Tar. br. 13 banded points on the claim value (e.g. 1.000 poena at 200.000 RSD), multiplied by one plus the number of hearings, then × 50,00 RSD. State court fee — Tar. br. 1 st. (1). A base plus marginal rate on the full value — at 200.000 RSD, 15.000 RSD (11.000 + 2% × 200.000).
Compute this case in the calculatorCivil claim, appeal (žalba)
The appeal (žalba) against a first-instance judgment, to the appellate court (apelacioni sud). On the lawyer side the appellate pleading is a single award increased by 100% over the base pleading; the court fee, by contrast, is the same as the original tužba — not doubled.
You file it within the statutory deadline after the first-instance judgment is served, when you have grounds to challenge the findings of fact or the application of law.
Lawyer fee — Tar. br. 16. The Tar. br. 13 point award on the value, increased by 100% (×2), then × 50,00 RSD. State court fee — Tar. br. 1 st. (4). The same fee as the tužba — at 200.000 RSD, 15.000 RSD. This is a deliberate divergence: the lawyer side doubles, the court side does not.
Compute this case in the calculatorEnforcement (izvršenje)
Enforcement (izvršenje) of a final judgment or other enforceable title before the enforcement court / public bailiff. The lawyer earns the full Tar. br. 13 point award on the value being enforced — no halving. The court, however, charges only one-third of the civil fee.
You file it when a debtor does not voluntarily comply with an enforceable title and you need the state’s coercive machinery (seizure, garnishment, sale) to collect.
Lawyer fee — Tar. br. 18. Equal to the civil pleading award (Tar. br. 13) on the full value, × 50,00 RSD — no fraction. State court fee — Tar. br. 1 st. (3). One-third of the civil fee — at 200.000 RSD, court_civil(200.000) ÷ 3 = 5.000 RSD. The lawyer uses the full value; the court uses a third.
Compute this case in the calculatorNon-contentious, value-based (vanparnični procenjivi)
A value-based non-contentious matter (vanparnični procenjivi postupak) — the out-of-dispute track for matters that still turn on an ascertainable value (e.g. certain property or division proceedings). The lawyer and court both read the same value scale they use for a contested civil claim.
You file it when the matter is procedurally non-contentious but carries a quantifiable value the tariff prices on the civil scale.
Lawyer fee — Tar. br. 22. Equal to the civil pleading award (Tar. br. 13) on the value, × 50,00 RSD. State court fee — Tar. br. 1 st. (1). The same base-plus-percentage scale as a civil claim — at 500.000 RSD, 21.000 RSD.
Compute this case in the calculatorSerbia’s Advokatska tarifa is the Serbian Bar Association (Advokatska komora Srbije) tariff — a default and cost-recovery reference, not a binding minimumA tariff floor a court could once not go below. Several EU jurisdictions abandoned binding minimums after CJEU rulings; where that has happened, the same figures now serve only as reference values.Glossary →. A written agreement may set the fee lower (but not below 50% of the tariff) or higher under čl. 4 st. 2. State court fees under the Zakon o sudskim taksama are mandatory statutory amounts, VAT-exempt and capped at 105.000 RSD on the civil scale. See the methodology page for the full encoding rules.