ACTIVITIES AND ORGANISATION
Basic activity of the Institute, as defined by Article 32. of the Law on Ministries (’’Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia’’, No. 72/12) comprises performing expert tasks and state administration tasks in the area of social insurance.
Work of the Institute for Social Insurance is monitored by the Ministry
of Labour, Employment and Social Policy.
Activities of the Institute are carried out
within the following functions:
- performing expert tasks and state administration tasks related
to the application of international agreements on social insurance;
- performing expert tasks and state administration tasks related
to drawing up administrative agreements for the application of international
agreements on social insurance and drawing up agreements on covering
health care expenses;
- performing expert tasks and state administration tasks related
to drawing up bilingual forms for the application of international agreements
on social insurance;
- performing expert tasks and state administration tasks related
to the participation in the calculation of health care costs, as well
as other tasks stipulated by law.
Zoran Panović, director
of the Institute for Social Insurance, born in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
on 13th October 1967. He completed his elementary and secondary education
in Tuzla and graduated from the Law School (criminal law) of the University
in Belgrade in 1992 and took his bar exam in 1998.
From February 1993 to February 1997, he worked at the Ministry
of the Interior as an Inspector for the suppression of murders and similar
crimes.
From February 1997 to December 2001 he worked at the Federal
Ministry for Labour, Health Care and Social Policy, as an independent
adviser on normative and legal issues in the area of health care, and
as a senior adviser on the protection of veterans and disabled persons,
performing the most complex normative and legal tasks in these areas.
From December 2001 to February 2006, within the framework
of the Sector for the Protection of Veterans and Disabled Persons at the
Ministry for Labour, Employment and Social Policy, as the head of the
Department for Normative and Legal, Financial and Material, and Research
and Analytical Affairs, performed the most complex normative tasks in
the area of the rights of veterans, disabled ex-servicemen and members
of their families.
In the period from February 2006 to October 2007, at the Ministry
of Labour and Social Policy, as the head of the Department for Normative
and Research and Analytical Affairs at the Sector for Retirement and Disability
Insurance, managed the issues of creating a national system of retirement
and disability insurance, as well as preparing and drafting the laws and
by-laws and international agreements in the area of social insurance.
Since October 2007, he has been the Director of the Institute
for Social Insurance.
He participated in deliberations of several international
conferences and seminars related to the issues of the elderly, retired,
disabled and exercising the rights in the area of social insurance. He
has been a participant of numerous projects related to the problems of
disabled persons.
As the secretary and a member of the Commission for Missing
Persons of the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the
Government of Serbia, in two terms, he has actively participated in solving
the issues of missing persons and the problems of their family members.
He has published several professional papers in the area of
retirement and disability insurance in professional journals, and is the
author, or a co-author of numerous papers in the area of the protection
of veterans and disabled persons.
He speaks English and is computer literate.
He is married and has three children.

Miloš Nikač, assistant
director of the Institute for Social Insurance, born on 11th September
1951 in Belgrade, where he also completed his elementary and secondary
education. He graduated from the Law School (international law) of the
University of Belgrade in 1976, and passed his bar exam in 1978.
From February 1977 until December 1993 he worked at the Alliance
of Communities of Retirement and Disability Insurance of Yugoslavia, and
the Alliance of Communities of Health Insurance and Health Care of Yugoslavia
(later – the Federal Institute for Social Insurance) as an expert-associate,
adviser, independent adviser, Head of the Department for International
Relations and Agreements, and later on as the assistant director. He was
also involved in the application of international agreements in the area
of social insurance.
In the period from December 1993 to May 2003, he worked at
the Federal Ministry for Labour, Health Care and Social Policy, as the
Head of the Department for Social Insurance. He was also involved in the
issues of the national system of retirement and disability insurance and
international agreements in the area of social insurance.
He is the author of the ‘’Code of Federal Regulations on Retirement
and Disability Insurance’’.
From May 2003 to January 2008, he worked at the Republic Fund
for Retirement and Disability Insurance of the Self-Employed Persons as
an adviser of the director for the system of retirement and disability
insurance and international agreements in the area of social insurance.
Since January 2008 he has been the assistant
director of the Institute for social Insurance and has been managing
the Sector for Implementation of Social Insurance by
Applying International Agreements.
From 2003 to 2004 he also discharged the duty of the national
representative of Serbia and Montenegro in the Regional Network for Coordination
in the area of Social Security (South-Eastern Europe Stability Pact),
and in March 2004 was appointed the representative within a programme
of the European Commission and the Council of Europe entitled ‘’Social
Institutions Support Programme’’. He also attended the First Regional
School of Social Insurance in Ohrid in 2005, and participated in preparations
of and translated to Serbian the ‘’Dictionary of Social Security’’.
For the International Labour Organisation Office in Budapest,
he translated to Serbian studies related to gender equality in the system
of retirement insurance, collecting contributions for retirement and disability
insurance, as well as the book ‘’Managing Social Security: practical guide
for the members of boards of social security institutions in the countries
of Central and Eastern Europe’’.
In October 2004, as an outside associate of the International
Labour Organisation, he held a seminar in Albania in the aim of supporting
bilateral agreements on social insurance, and in June 2005 and August
2006 two seminars in Moldavia on concluding bilateral agreements for coordination
of the system of social security.
As an international expert of the International Organisation
for Migrations (Moldavia mission), he held a seminar in December 2007
on negotiating and concluding bilateral agreements for the coordination
of the system of social security.
He speaks English and Russian, and is computer literate.
He is married and has one child.
Aleksandra Hranjec,
head of the Group for the Application of International
Agreements in the Area of Health Insurance, born in Belgrade,
in 1972. She completed her elementary and secondary education in Belgrade,
and graduated from the Faculty of Law (administrative law) of the University
of Belgrade in 1999.
From 1999 to 2000 she worked at the
Department for Property and Legal Affairs of the Municipal
Assembly of Sopot.
From 2000 to 2005 she worked at the Republic
Fund for Health Insurance – Branch of the City of Belgrade,
as an independent expert adviser for the application of
international agreements in the area of health insurance and was engaged
in the issues of exercising the right to health care and making decisions
upon requests in the administrative procedure.
From 2005 to 2008 she worked
at the Republic Institute for Health Insurance, Head Office,
as an independent expert adviser for the control of exercising
the rights stemming from health insurance – supervisor of the insurance.
In that period, she was engaged in various aspects of the control over
exercising the rights by contributors, as well as the control over the
work of branch offices and sub-branches of the Republic Institute for
Health Insurance in the procedure of exercising the rights.
Since June
2008, she has been the head of the Group for the Application
of International Agreements in the Area of Health Insurance
at the Institute for Social Insurance.
She speaks English and is computer
literate.
She is married and has two children.
Milan Nešić, head of
the Group for the Application of International Agreements
in the Area of Retirement and Disability Insurance, born in Varvarin on
12th July 1956. He completed his elementary and secondary education in
Jagodina, and graduated from the Law School (criminal and judicial law)
of the University of Belgrade in 1980, and took his bar exam in 1990.
From May 1981 to February 1997, he was employed at the
Factory of Machines and Tractors in Belgrade, and was engaged
in various legal matters as a legal adviser for normative
issues, but was also involved in various activities of
representing the enterprise, as the head of the HR and the director of
the Sector for HR, General and Legal Affairs.
From February 1997, at the Federal Institute for Social
Insurance, discharged the duties of an independent adviser,
the head of the Department for Social Insurance in the
Country, and the Head of the Group for Legal and Medical
Affairs at the Sector for Social Insurance in the Country,
and was engaged in various activities related to drafting and application
of by-laws in the area of retirement and disability insurance. Being involved
in legal aspects of the implementation of national system in this area,
he participated in the activities of enacting regulations necessary to
the implementation of the Law on Retirement and Disability
Insurance.
Following 2003, he took up the employment at the Republic
Fund for Retirement and Disability Insurance of the Employed,
Head office in Belgrade, and until March 2008 was engaged
in the activities of making decisions regarding the rights
stemming from retirement and disability insurance in the
second instance. He was especially engaged in the issues
of the institute of the insurance period calculated as extended length,
and in cooperation with the representatives of competent bodies, organisations
and institutions, participated in determining jobs that would be covered
by such a calculation of insurance period, as well as in the revision
of already determined jobs (amendments to the regulations on their determining).
Since March 2008, he has been the head of the Group for
the Application of International Agreements in the Area
of Retirement and Disability Insurance at the Institute
for Social Insurance.
He speaks Russian and English and is computer literate.
He is married and has two children.
Gordana Dmitrović Andjelić, the head of the Group for General Legal, HR and Financial and Material Affairs, was born in Belgrade in 1960. She completed elementary and secondary education in Belgrade, and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 1984. She completed specialist studies of the European Law (organised in cooperation with the European University Centre in Nancy) at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1999. She passed the in-service exam in 2004 and attended the “General Issues of the EU, the Relationship of Serbia and Montenegro and the European Union”, a 6-month training for civil servants.
From 1988 to 1994, she worked as a legal adviser at the Sector for General Affairs of “Tranšped-Transport“, a transportation company from Vrčin.
From 1994 to 2001 she worked as the head of the Group for General and Normative Affairs at the Federal Institute for Health Protection.
From 2001 to 2004 she worked at the Sector for Veteran and Disability Protection of the Ministry for Social Affairs, as the head of the Department for Legal Affairs.
From 2005 to 2011 she worked as an independent adviser at the Sector for Veteran and Disability Protection of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
Works as the head of the Group for General Legal, HR and Financial and Material Affairs of the Institute for Social Insurance since October 2011.
She speaks English and is computer literate.
She is married, and has two children.
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