BELGRADE - Minister for Environmental and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic said on Monday that Bor (photo) is presently the most polluted municipality in Serbia.
This relates to the eastern Serbian town and its surroundings' water, air and soil quality.
Dulić addressed a session of parliament's Committee for Environmental Protection to present a report for 2007.
The ministry will continue with strict control of the biggest polluters in Serbia, Dulic added.
BELGRADE - Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic (photo) stated that in the upcoming period an entirely new environmental policy will be formed in Serbia.
At a press conference marking the Ministry’s first 100 days in office, Dulic announced that from March next year the Ministry will carry out a campaign to raise citizens’ awareness and incite them to clean their surroundings.
He said that in the first 100 days the Ministry removed 60 illegal facilities put up on sites under the state’s pr...
OSIJEK - A boat carrying euro-diesel fuel from Novi Sad has run aground near the border town of Apatin.
The boat ran aground yesterday because of the Danube’s low water-level, while according to a statement from Croatia’s Emergency Center, owing to the danger of an oil spill, the fuel will be pumped out of the boat today.
The procedure will be carried out using floating dams to prevent any leakages in a joint operation between the Serbian Portal Management and their Croatian counterparts.
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Milan Markovic (photo) said today that the relation between the state and NGOs should be institutionalised and proposed setting up an office within the government to deal with this.
At a meeting themed “Strategic Guidelines and Institutional Cooperation between State and Civil Sector” held at the Sava Centre, Markovic said that the Law on associations, currently undergoing parliamentary procedure, marks the beginning of this relationship,...
BANJA LUKA - Academic association Eko-logic from Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina together with partner organization EkoForum from Belgrade, Serbia have launched the project "Protection of urban forests and green areas".
The project was selected from the West Balkan region by the regional SECTOR programme "Supporting Environmental Civil Society Organisations in Southeastern Europe". This project is enabled through a grant given by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe's SECTOR Programme f...
BELGRADE - Sixty five ethnic Roma pupils from the Gazela settlement, recently enrolled for primary school, received backpacks, textbooks, other school supplies and winter clothes at an event organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission and Belgrade city authorities today.
The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, and Darko Bozicu, a member of the Belgrade City Council, took part in the event. The 20,000 euro donation is part of the OSCE Mission's Roma ...
VIENNA - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said in Vienna on Tuesday that he had agreed with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei that the Agency give its full support to Serbia's efforts to relocate from Serbia the remaining spent nuclear fuel from the Nuclear Institute "Vinca" (photo). It will require funds worth $25 million.
Speaking to the press in Vienna where he is taking part in the 52nd International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference, Djelic...
BELGRADE - Minister of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic announced today that the government will start several campaigns aimed at raising citizens’ awareness on climate change and global warming.
During a visit to the Climate Change Caravan set up at Trg Nikole Pasica in Belgrade, Dulic stressed that the state must stimulate production of energy from renewable sources through subsidies.
Serbia is not an economic power and does not emit a lot of carbon-dioxide and other harmful gases...
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BELGRADE - Oliver Dulic has supported the nomination of Djavolja Varos to become one of the seven wonders of the natural world.
The Environment Ministry has sent an official letter of support to Djavolja Varos (Devil’s Town) in its bid to be voted one of the seven natural wonders.
The environment minister said that it was one of the efforts being taken to improve Serbia’s image in the world, and to make the country’s assets become renowned worldwide. Djavolja Varos is currently ranked 14th on the list.
BELGRADE - In Serbia, only 15% of waste is recycled, putting the country at the foot of the European table, writes daily "Vecernje novosti".
With the adoption of two key laws governing this area - the Law on Waste Management and the Law on Packaging Waste - the Environment and Spatial Planning Ministry plans to form a brand new economic sector in Serbia which, via the collection and separation of waste, its recycling and return to production, will not only create a large number of new jobs but generate a significa...
BELGRADE - Half the overall energy supply could be made out of renewable energy sources. Serbia can provide half of its overall energy capacity from renewable energy sources, which is currently 18%.
The biggest share might belong to biomass that can provide 1/4 of total energy supply in Serbia, but large quantity of energy may come from hydro energy, the sun, and the wind.
Accordingly to data from Ministry for Coal and Energy, Serbia can produce 4,89 million tonnes of equivalent oil (ten) per year, from renew...
BELGRADE - The Head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, said today he supported the efforts of the authorities of the City of Belgrade to identify alternative accommodation for families of the Roma settlement under the Gazela bridge.
"I have been closely following the relocation planning process, and believe that the implementation of the relocation plan is a potential win-win situation for everyone concerned. It is shocking to see famili...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic said that the national sustainable development strategy recommends that by 2014 funds for environmental protection should be 1.5% of GDP.
Djelic, who is also president of the Council for Sustainable Development, said in an interview for the American Chamber of Commerce magazine Perspective that according to the strategy, in 2017 funds for environmental protection should be 2.5% of GDP, ...
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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...
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