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MARINKO UKROPINA, SGS GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR SERBIA, CROATIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA&HERZEGOVINA AND MONTENEGRO
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BUILDING CERTIFICATION The SGS Group operates within the scope of a network of more than 2,700 representative offices and laboratories and has 93,000 employees worldwide. Company SGS Belgrade was founded in August 2001 as a full member of the Group and has since positioned itself as a market leader in our country
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ith its fight to combat the grey economy within the framework of the marking and monitoring of petroleum derivatives, SGS Belgrade has contributed to fuel quality adhering to the level of EU standards. It is thanks to this work that inflows of funds to the budget of the Republic of Serbia from the collecting of excise duties on petroleum derivatives increased by around 1,300 million euros. ■ You deal with quality control, verification, testing and certification, but that’s not everything we need to know about SGS Group and SGS Belgrade. Could you tell us more? - SGS Belgrade is a leader in quality control, testing, certification and verification, but
We’ve developed a large number of courses within the scope of the SGS Academy in Serbia, with the aim of satisfying our clients’ specific requirements also in monitoring the turnover of goods and investments in agriculture, industry, mining, the petroleum and chemicals industry, turnovers of consumer goods, laboratory testing etc. The majority of services are implemented in accordance with methodologies that are harmonised at the global level, while we adapt certain services to suit our region, first and foremost in the fields of education 18
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