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 »
On 10 July 2020, the City of Zrenjanin issued the third illegal construction permit to the investor Linglong International Europe doo, this time for the second phase of construction of auxiliary facilities within the tire factory complex. On 20 July 2020, RERI filed a complaint to the Secretariat for Energy, Construction and Transport within Autonomous ...Read More »
We demand from the Ministry of Environmental Protection to immediately remove from its Facebook account the statement of Minister Goran Trivan by which the Minister greatly abused the ministry and his public function for political purposes: Minister Trivan, who did not spoke out in situations when regulations in the field of environmental protection were ashamedly ...Read More »
The Ministry of Environmental Protection, after several letters sent by RERI’S legal team, informed the investor that the conditions for the construction of a hazardous waste incinerator on the territory of the City of Požarevac had not been met. The construction of the incinerator, which was announced as the first hazardous waste incinerator in the ...Read More »
The Ministry of Environmental Protection has initiated the procedure of drafting the Fourth National Report on the Implementation of the Aarhus Convention, in accordance with the international obligations of the Republic of Serbia. The Fourth Report is being prepared after 10 years of application of the Aarhus Convention in Serbia, and all interested parties can ...Read More »
RERI condemns the arrest of journalist Ana Lalić and urges all public authorities to obey the laws and provide all conditions for truthful, free and accurate informing of citizens, and to provide full protection to journalists who perform their jobs professionally. The availability of information through free media at this time of pandemic is as ...Read More »
Background On 15 March 2020 Serbian authorities declared state of emergency (“SoE”) on the entire territory of the Republic of Serbia. Upon initial confusion and restricted access to competent authorities and reduced working hours of all institutions, in order to achieve minimal standards of legal certainty, Government of the Republic of Serbia (“Government”) adopted legal ...Read More »
In accordance with the current events in City of Prokuplje and other places in Serbia, where incidents occur due to justified civil resistance to the construction of SHPP, we point out that in December, 2020, the legal team of the Regulatory Institute for Renewable Energy and Environment (RERI), has submitted a request for termination construction ...Read More »
The Government of the Republic of Serbia, two years after NERP began to apply, on its session from 30 January 2020, issued an “improved” NERP in the form of a public policy document, pursuant to Article 38 of the Law on the Planning System of the Republic of Serbia, which came into effect on 28 October 2018, ...Read More »
Last week, two conferences about construction of SHPP – economic justification, rule of law and protection of natural resources were held in Zlatibor and Niš by the Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Previous Next These events brought together over 70 participants – civil sector activists, environmental ...Read More »