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 »
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 »
The first snow of the year has fallen and an energy collapse befell. More than 100 thousand people didn’t have access to electricity for several days, the thermal power plant (TPP) Nikola Tesla was out of operation, and the Public electricity company of Serbia (EPS) was forced to import electricity at very unfavorable costs. During ...Read More »
The proposed amendments to the Law on Integrated Prevention and Pollution Control (IPPC Law), which was submitted to the National Assembly without any public debate, demonstrate that the Republic of Serbia and the competent Ministry of Environmental Protection do not have the capacity to implement regulations. The Government proposed to postpone the deadline for issuing integrated permits (IPPC permits) ...Read More »
The Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute („RERI“) is pleased to announce its Advisory Board, which will act as an expert body of our organization, and advise RERI on issues of strategic importance, as well as provide support to RERI’s engagement with the academic, civic, and policy-making communities. We have special honour to welcome the three first members of our new Board: Professors Sanja Bogojevic, Anatole Boute, and Ludwig Kramer, each an expert in Environmental Law and/or Energy ...Read More »
The Minister of Environmental Protection visited the company “Serbia Zijin Copper doo” in Bor on Friday, 3rd of September in order to be convinced of the progress and dynamics of the projects that the company is implementing for the purpose of environmental protection. However, the facilities she visited and in the construction of which she was convinced, do not have a construction permit or environmental impact assessment study approval. ...Read More »
Emissions of sulfur dioxide from the Kostolac B thermal power plant during 2018, 2019 and 2020, exceeded the maximum allowed values prescribed by the National Emission Reduction Plan (NERP). Instead of reducing emissions, TPP Kostolac B in 2020 emitted almost 16,000 tons more sulfur dioxide than in 2019. According to the daily newspaper Politika and the Ministry of Mining and Energy itself, Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said yesterday in Kostolac that “emissions ...Read More »