The Market Inspection Service of the Republic of Srpska will increase the control of user registration in the Central Information System for Hospitality in the upcoming period. In line with the provisions of the Law on Hospitality, all service providers of accommodation, hotel, motel, guesthouse, apartment, holiday home, hostel, rural tourism accommodation facility, and others are required to register in the Central Information System.
The System contains all relevant data on accommodation service providers, locations of the accommodation and guests, and through which all of their data and other information that resulted from hospitality sector work are recorded. The Central Information System provides better control, more efficient collection of public revenue, more reliable insight into statistical indicators, and increases the gray economy suppression.
Access is free to all service providers which provide the accommodation service, and the only obligation of the service provider is to provide internet connection for system access, which is a minimal and negligible effort because, in practice, every location already has access to the Internet.
We emphasize that special focus will be given on locations which have recently unregistered their business activity, with the aim to verify the validity of the deregistration and cessation of operations.
Taking into consideration that the competent ministry, in the recent period, has been calling for the registration of service providers which provide accommodation service, giving them additional period of tolerance, business entities had enough time to fulfil their lawful duties.
The main goal of the inspection service is not punishment, but registration and legalization of the business, that is moving their business into the lawful framework, however, measures prescribed by the law will be taken in the cases of confirmed irregularities. We advise business entities to not wait for the arrival of inspectors, but to carry out registration in due time and not exposed themselves to the risk of punishment.
We remind everyone that the prescribed penalty for the hospitality business entity that did not submit their information to the Central Information System is in the amount of BAM 1,500, BAM 700 for the responsible person, and BAM 1,000 for the hospitality service provider as an entrepreneur.
