NOVI SAD - The Green Network of Vojvodina said on Wednesday that the construction of a nuclear power plant in Erdut, Croatia, near the border with Serbia, was unacceptable.
The organization invited the public in Serbia to oppose the construction of this nuclear plant.
The Green Network of Vojvodina reminded the Serbian government that the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment, which Serbia ratified last year and Croatia two years ago, had to be observed when it came to construction of such plants in the b...
BELGRADE - Serbian Assistant Minister of Environmental Protection Dusan Pajkic said today that the purpose of celebrating Danube Day on June 29 is to draw public attention to the necessity of taking care of nature and natural resources.
Speaking at a press conference held to present the project “Danube Day 2008”, Pajkic said that marking the day is very important for Serbia also because the country is presiding over the International Committee for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) this year.
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BELGRADE - Today, June 5, is World Environment Day, the slogan of which this year is “Carbon Dioxide Emission-How to Change Habits.”
World Environment Day was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1972, and represents one of the main channels through which the UN stimulates discussion on the importance of increasing activities to protect the environment.
The day promotes the view that the community is the basis for changes in behavior towards man’s immediate surroundings, and the headquarters of the UN Environmen...
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Environmental Protection Sasa Dragin stated today that Serbia has the best system for tracking nuclear accidents in Europe so citizens could be informed on time on any possible nuclear danger.
Dragin told Radio Television of Serbia that the system in Serbia is currently the most state-of-the-art in Europe and that the only country that can be compared with us is France, which gets reports every two hours whereas in Serbia reports come in every half an hour.
He noted that there are te...
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BELGRADE - Minister of Environmental Protection Sasa Dragin signed today with representatives of the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science the Agreement on takeover, transport and storage of radioactive waste material detected in metal waste in the collection process.
Under this agreement, Vinca assumes responsibility that the collection, handling, safe transport and storage of radioactive waste material is performed only by proper technical and health institutions and that they should be available non-stop, 24 hours a da...
NEW YORK - As part of the regular annual session of the UN Division for Sustainable Development, Serbia’s sustainable development strategy has been presented today.
As part of the discussion, the Serbian government received support and appraisal, for the efficient and transparent process in drafting the strategy and its adoption on May 9 at the proposal of Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, from over 20 countries who attended the presentation.
Aside from Montenegro, Serbia is the first country in the region wit...
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BELGRADE - State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of Science Uranija Kozmidis-Luburic said today the ministry will submit a proposal to the government to make a decision at its next session to form a committee for finding a permanent nuclear waste disposal site in Serbia.
Speaking at a press conference regarding the take over, transport and storage of Radium-226 to the Vinca Institute and the design of a programme for the disposal of radioactive waste in Serbia, Kozmidis-Luburic said that if no technical obstacles ar...
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Environmental Production Sasa Dragin said today that the ministry and the Belgrade Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy have completed the draft strategy for introducing clean production in Serbia. The draft has been forwarded to the Serbian government for adoption.
Speaking at a press conference, Dragin said that the strategy will guide the industry towards using clean technology, contribute to environmental protection and make the market more competitive.
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Environmental Protection Sasa Dragin and Head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Serbia Hans Ola Urstad signed today in Belgrade a memorandum of understanding on environmental protection.
Within the framework of the memorandum the ministry and OSCE will cooperate on a project titled, “Strategic support by the Ministry of Environmental Protection for institutional capacity building”.
The basic aim of the project is that the OSCE, as an organ...
BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection stated today that through a public competition it chose a label to mark environmentally friendly products, which was designed by Miroslav Vujovic from Belgrade.
The statement adds that out of 26 submitted designs, the committee elected the one which in its opinion best represents the environment in Serbia.
The label will be a part of the rulebook on granting the right to use the eco-friendly label on environmentally friendly products.
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic announced today that from now on the EU will set aside €16 million for cross-border cooperation projects from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA).
Djelic told a press conference that in the past four years the EU financed 125 projects with around €11 million and added that it has decided to increase the funds since the previous ones were well-spent.
Having recalled that cross-border cooperation is very demanding, he announced that Serbia will ...
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Milan Markovic and German Ambassador to Belgrade Wolfram Maas began today the implementation of a German government programme titled “Assistance to medium-sized Serbian municipalities in water supply and waste water management”.
Markovic told a press conference that the programme includes financial assistance intended to revive the water supply and waste water management systems in Kraljevo, Loznica, Pancevo, Sabac, Smederevo, Sombor, Sr...
BELGRADE - Pancevo, on the outskirts of Belgrade, is Europe’s most polluted town.
Belgrade itself, where traffic is the main pollutant, is in a very bad condition, as is the town of Bor, home to a copper mine.
Experts at an environmental safety and protection conference have warned that other places most affected are those in the vicinity of power stations with ash filters, and metal and chemical factories.
The air, land and water in Serbia are full of ammonia, iron, manganese, methane, carbons and car...
BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection stated that on behalf of Serbia, Minister Sasa Dragin took over the chairmanship over the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) from his Romanian colleague Attila Korodi.
Dragin will be ICPDR president and activity leader this year, according to a statement.
As someone who is responsible for environmental protection in Serbia, I know well how difficult it is, and also necessary to harmonise the needs with sustainabl...
BELGRADE - Bozidar Djelic said last night that a strategy for sustainable development would be drawn up by late February.
"The government is preparing a strategy that will make it possible to balance the economic, social and environmental goals of development", the deputy prime minister said.
In a public debate on the document at Belgrade University’s Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Šelic said that the strategy rested on three pillars - the environment, the economy and social policy.
BELGRADE - The Society for protection of wild birds filed to Special Prosecution criminal charges against former officials of the Republican administration for protection of the environment and Veterinarian Administration for suspicion that they were issuing permits for export of several hundreds of protected birds of prey.
President of the Society Aleksandra Tadic told ‘Blic’ yesterday that hundreds of falcons and eagles were exported illegally.
The price of these birds as well as of the hybrids that comes to...
PANCEVO - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic attended the opening of a public debate in Pancevo, as part of the campaign themed “Sustainable Progress“, and stated that the Serbian sustainable development strategy reflects a balanced relation of ecology and economy, as well as of economic and social progress.
In the course of the debate, in which Minister of Environmental Protection Sasa Dragin, State Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy Ljiljana Lucic and Deputy Prime Minister’s advisor fo...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister’s advisor for sustainable development Srdja Popovic stated today that waste water in Belgrade flows into the Sava and Danube because not a single filter has been set up in the city.
At the presentation of the sustainable development strategy held at the Serbian government, Popovic said that according to a survey conducted by the Strategic Marketing agency, Serbian citizens are not sufficiently informed on pollution-related issues and a third of them feels threatened by the un...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said today that the German government is ready to turn Serbia's debt of €17 million into assistance for projects in the field of environmental protection and sustainable growth.
Djelic told the press after a meeting with German Ambassador to Serbia Wolfram Maas that that is a part of Serbia's debt to the Paris Club of Creditors and that Germany is the only country that has decided so far to renounce that debt and turn it into concrete assistance to Serbia.
BELGRADE - Climate change has had a negative effect on the economy, according to the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
At an international conference on climate change in south-east Europe today, Franz Prettenthaler, from the Austrian research institute Joanneum, said that global production had fallen by 1.33 percent, following a doubling of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.
He said that cooperation between countries in the region was necessary in order to limit the damaging effects of climate cha...
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