In less than a year, the company Zijin was convicted four times for violating the Law on Mining and Geological Research, for which it was ordered to pay a fine below the legal minimum each time. Based on the Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI) report, the company was convicted again in mid-November for the ...Read More »
The Higher Court in Belgrade has ruled in favor of Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI) and ordered Serbia’s state-owned energy company, Public Electricity Company of Serbia (EPS), to reduce illegal levels of sulfur dioxide emissions from its thermal power plants because of their threat to human health and the environment. “This is the first ...Read More »
The Commercial Court in Zaječar convicted and fined the company “Zijin Bor Copper” for starting the construction and expansion of the copper smelter in Bor without prior approval of the study on environmental impact assessment (“EIA”). For that offense, the company was fined only 200 thousand Serbian dinars (≈ €1.700), and the responsible person within ...Read More »
An initiative to assess the constitutionality of the procedure of drawing up and adopting the General Urban Plan of Novi Sad Until 2030, adopted on 21 July 2022, has been submitted by RERI to the Constitutional Court with a request that proceedings begin, keeping in mind that the plan was adopted contrary to the procedures ...Read More »
RERI and the Association of Young Researchers Bor (AYR Bor) submitted extraordinary inspection surveillance requests to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure due to the suspicion that the company “Serbia Zijin Bor Copper” doo Bor illegally constructed a mining wastewater treatment plant – without a construction permit and ...Read More »
Acting on the criminal complaint filed by RERI against the company Zijin Copper, as well as the company’s responsible person for causing heavy metal pollution to the Mali Pek River in March 2021, the competent public prosecutor’s office in Negotin issued an Order requiring Zijin Copper and the responsible person to pay the amount of ...Read More »
Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI) and the Association of Young Researchers from Bor (AYR Bor) submitted a request to the Ministry of Environmental Protection to initiate extraordinary inspection surveillance over Zijin Bor Copper d.o.o. due to the suspicion that high concentrations of arsenic in the air in 2021 in Bor are the consequence of ...Read More »
In Serbia, the field of waste management has not been regulated by any strategic document since 2019. In 2020, within the framework of the project implemented jointly with the European Union, the Ministry of Environmental Protection prepared the Draft National Waste Management Strategy, which was intended to regulate this field after the Waste Management Strategy ...Read More »
On 25 January 2022, the Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI) filed a criminal complaint against the responsible person, acting Director and Legal Representative of the Public Electricity Company of Serbia (EPS), Milorad Grčić, due to grounds for suspicion that he committed the crime of Grave Offenses against General Safety, prescribed by Article 288 paragraph ...Read More »
By Mirjana Jovanović (Belgrade Open School), Mirko Popović (Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute) and Viktor Berishaj (CAN Europe) 28 December 2021, Belgrade – The recent collapse of the coal based energy system in Serbia, debunks the popular myth of coal’s reliability. On December 12, 2021, the electricity production in Nikola Tesla coal fired thermal power plants, the energy ...Read More »