Serbian Ministry of Justice confirms notary services to resume after system failure, but remains silent to N1

The Serbian Ministry of Justice has informed RTS that notary services, which have been unavailable for ten days due to a system failure, will be restored this week. Citizens have been unable to finalize property transactions, including sales, gifts, and inheritance documents, because the system for authenticating these documents collapsed.

However, the same ministry failed to respond to questions from portal N1 regarding the suspension of these crucial notary services for five full days. When N1 inquired about the alleged inability of notaries to access the Ministry of Justice's Judicial Information System and the subsequent halt in property transaction authentications, the ministry offered no immediate response.

In its statement to RTS, the Ministry of Justice acknowledged that the "function of individual services is currently limited" and that they are working on improving the system's security and stability in collaboration with the e-Government Office. They assured that the system would be re-established during the week.

This incident echoes a similar situation in July 2025, when notaries, courts, and executors reportedly failed to submit cases to the Republic Geodetic Authority for at least ten days. At that time, the Ministry of Justice also did not respond to N1's questions. It was later revealed that the Ministry of Justice had been the target of hacker attacks since July 4, 2025, a fact the ministry disclosed a full week later. The ministry had stated that the attacks culminated in a breach of their Data Center, leading them to disconnect the entire network access as a preventive measure against data deletion or ransomware demands.

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The function of individual services is currently limited, and we are working on improving the security and stability of the system in cooperation with the e-Government Office.