Serbia punishes both sides of a commercial sexual transaction. Article 16 of the 2016 Law on Public Order and Peace fines anyone who engages in prostitution, uses prostitution services or provides premises for it RSD 50,000–150,000, or imposes 30 to 60 days' imprisonment; the earlier law penalised only the seller. The law defines prostitution as providing sexual services for money or other value. Article 184 of the Criminal Code punishes inducing or inciting prostitution, handing a person over to another for prostitution, and propagating or advertising prostitution through public media or similar means, with six months to five years. In December 2024 the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality asked again for Articles 3 and 16 to be amended, and in December 2025 the Ombudsman published a draft that would extend the offence to conduct on social networks. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/serbia/, reviewed 2026-10-30, CC BY 4.0.