The Environmental Protection Agency regularly publishes air quality assessments on its website. It does so on the basis of certain criteria. However, the criteria that you can find today on the Agency’s website differ from those presented to citizens in the Report of the Environmental Protection Agency published on September 7, 2020. Thus, due to ...Read More »
A group of civil society organizations and experts warns the public that the future of Makiško polje, the area where Belgrade’s largest source of drinking water supply is located- is in danger. A complete urbanization of this area is being planned without prior public discussion followed by numerous violations of laws and regulations. Namely, a ...Read More »
RERI’s lawyers filed a criminal charge against the responsible in Linglong International Europe Ltd. Zrenjanin, China Energy Engineering Group Tianjin Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd. and CRE International Ltd. Belgrade due to suspicion that they performed construction works on the construction of the tire factory in the City of Zrenjanin without the construction permit. Due ...Read More »
Ministry of Environmental Protection on 14 September issued the decision that Serbia Zijin Copper is not obliged to develop environmental impact assessment (EIA) study for increase of flotation of the copper mine in Majdanpek. RERI and Association of Young Researchers Bor submitted the appeals to the Government of the Republic of Serbia against the decision ...Read More »
According to the information that RERI obtained from the Institute for Nature Conservation of Voivodina Province, neither the City Administration of City of Zrenjanin nor competent authorities within the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina refered to this Institute, despite the explicit legal obligation to obtain nature conservation conditions for the construction of the tire factory of ...Read More »
Administrative court annulled the decision of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, in administrative dispute initiated by the investor “Small hydropower plant Zvonce”, and established only violation of the rules of procedure, not assessing the factual situation. Administrative court reached a verdict on 8 September 2020 and upheld the investor’s lawsuit, and hence, annulled the decision ...Read More »
Deciding on the request of the Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI), the City Administration of the City of Prokuplje on 23 September 2020 passed a decision initiating the termination of the construction permit, which was issued in 2015 to the investor – RASTING MV d.o.o. Belgrade, for the construction of SHPP Rastovnica, on three ...Read More »
Today, the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, despite obvious organizational shortcomings, tried to hold a public session of the Commission for Plans within the public insight into the draft Plan of the Special Purpose Area for the Construction of the Thermal Power Plant Kolubara B and the Report on Strategic Environmental Assessment. After the ...Read More »
Environmental Protection Agency on 7 September 2020 announced Annual Report on the Air Quality in the Republic of Serbia in 2019 which contains an overview of air quality monitoring results at the national and local level. An integral part of this report is the assessment of air quality by zones and agglomerations, according to which ...Read More »
Today, the City Administration of the City of Zrenjanin prevented citizens from participating in the public presentation of the study on the environmental impact assessment of the tire factory construction of the Chinese company Linglong International Europe LLC. Around 50 citizens and representatives of associations, who submitted comments and suggestions on the environmental impact assessment ...Read More »