About us

A new way to success. progress. improvement.

The Serbian Quality Management and Business Excellence Association – SRMEK is become from Quality Managers Association – YUMEK in august 2017. Documents and structure of Quality Managers Association - YUMEK have been updated with inovated Statute, Objectives, Management Board, in order to tighter connection with EOQ (The European Organization for Quality), EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) and other important organizations and partners.

About us


The Serbian Quality Management and Business Excellence Association – SRMEK gathers practical professional and scientific specialists - quality managers, quality auditors, managers for management systems, scientific and professional institutes, organizations, institutions and all those persons and organizations that directly or indirectly deal with quality problems and management systems.

Experts of Serbian Quality Management and Business Excellence Association – SRMEK train staff in the field of management system::

  • for quality - ISO 9000, HACCP, TQM, QS 9000, ISO/TS 16949...
  • for environment - ISO 14001 i EMAS
  • for occupational health and safety - OHSAS 18001 and ISO 45001
  • for food safety - ISO 22000 i HACCP.

Our team


The basis of SRMEK success is long experience team in promoting management systems in various fields of economy.
All experts are trained in accordance with EOQ (European Oragnization for Quality) schemes for EOQ Quality Manager and EOQ Quality Auditor, EOQ Environmental Manager and EOQ Environmental Auditor, ÖVQ – Process Manager, etc.
Lecturers of association SRMEK are approved by ÖVQ (later Quality Austria) from Vienna, for trainings in accordance with EOQ harmonized scheme for quality and environmental management systems.

Conducted trainings for EOQ Quality Manager/Auditor and EOQ Environmental Manager/Auditor in cooperation with ÖVQ - (Österreichische Vereinigung für Qualitatssicherung) - Austrian Association for Quality Assurance now Quality Austria

No Training course Number of participants Training period Location
1. EOQ Quality System Manager/Auditor; OVQ Quality System Manager; OVQ Auditor Quality Managemen System 24 September 1997. - June 1998. Belgrade
2. EOQ Quality System Manager/Auditor 20 24.01-03.03.2000. Kragujevac
3. EOQ Quality Auditor 21 2001 Kragujevac
4. EOQ Quality System Manager/Auditor 22 June - September 2001. Belgrade
5. EOQ Quality System Manager 42 2002. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
6. EOQ Auditor 36 2002. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
7. OVQ Process Manager 15 October 2002. Belgrade
8. EOQ Environmental System Manager/Auditor; OVQ Environmental Manager; OVQ Auditor Environmental Management System 22 November 2002. - January 2003. Moscow, Russia
9. EOQ Environmental System Manager/Auditor; OVQ Auditor Environmental Management System 13 (A)+ 12 (M) September - December2003. Saratov, Russia
10. OVQ/EOQ Auditor/Manager 14 18-22.10.2004. Kragujevac
11. EOQ Quality System Manager; EOQ Quality Auditor; OVQ Quality System Manager; OVQ Auditor Quality Management System 11 May 2004. Belgrade
12. OVQ Quality System Manager; OVQ Auditor Quality Management System; OVQ Process manager 25 16-17.05.2005. Tara
13. Environmental System Manager 25 20.06-01.07.2005. Novi Sad
14. Environmental System Auditor 24 18-22.07.2005. Novi Sad
15. OVQ Quality System Manager 25 10-21.10.2005. Novi Sad
16. OVQ Auditor Candidate Quality Management System; EOQ Quality System Manager 13 20-24.02.2006. Novi Sad
17. Third Party Auditor for QMS-Quality Austria Auditors Competence Program 9 November 2014. - April 2015. Quality Austria E-learning course

Our history

  • 1997

    The association Quality Managers Association - YUMEK has been founded in 1997 in Ex Yugoslavia. During 20 years association YUMEK have trained over 8500 participants and provided their services in more than 350 organizations..

    The basic tasks of the association YUMEK were:

    • Gathering and organizing scientific-research and professional associates acting in the field of assurance of quality control and management system,
    • Encouraging the individual and collective scientific and research activities of its members, in the field of quality management systems,
    • Organization of scientific and expert meetings in the field of quality management system,
    • Maintaining and developing cooperation with leading organizations in the contry and in the world,
    • Cooperation with scientific and professional institutions in the country and the world, in the field of quality.

  • 1998

    Established partnerships with ÖVQ - (Österreichische Vereinigung für Qualitatssicherung) - Austrian Quality Association from Vienna and ÖQS - Österreichishe Vereinigung zur Zertifizierung von Qualitäts-und Managementsystems ) - Austrian certification body from Vienna.

    In the same year, the first group of EOQ Quality System Managers and EOQ Quality Auditors were educated.

  • 2002

    The first group of EOQ EMS Managers and EOQ EMS Auditors were educated.

  • 2017

    The Serbian Quality Management and Business Excellence Association – SRMEK is become from Quality Managers Association – YUMEK in august 2017. Documents and structure of Quality Managers Association - YUMEK have been updated with inovated Statute, Objectives, Management Board, in order to tighter connection with EOQ (The European Organization for Quality), EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) and other important organizations and partners.

    At the end of the year, SRMEK became a member of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), giving local companies, institutions and individuals access to the knowledge of the best managers in the world.

  • 2018

    On 27th February 2018 the Association for Quality Management and Business Excellence of Serbia (SRMEK) has received official confirmation that it has been accepted as a full member of the European Organization for Quality (EOQ).

    At the end of the year EOQ board of directors has decided to SRMEK Association is the organizer of the 64th EOQ Congress 2020 in Belgrade.

  • 2019

    On 28th June 2019 the decision was announced that SRMEK was appointed to the European Quality Organization (EOQ) as the official National Representative of Serbia.

    Full list of National representatives in EOQ organization you can see HERE