BELGRADE - Rolling Stones concert won't take place at the city racetrack to avoid upsetting hundreds of horses stabled nearby.
The concert organizers announced a change of venue on Wednesday. The event, scheduled for July 14, will instead take place at Belgrade's Ušće riverside bank at the confluence of the Danube and the Sava rivers, Raka Marić of Music Star Productions said.
The Stones decided to change the location of the concert after animal protection society ORCA raised their concerns.
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ZAGREB - Croatia's parliament on Friday ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which commits nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The former Yugoslav country that hopes to join mainstream Europe in 2009 signed the Kyoto treaty in 1999, but held off ratification until getting approval last year for a higher limit of annual carbon dioxide emissions.
Without the higher limit, "our economic progress would be slowed down significantly," said Nikola Ruzinski, a state secretary in the Environmental Ministry.
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PANČEVO - Serbian Minister of Science and Environmental Protection Aleksandar Popović said today that reconstruction of loading stations at Pančevo oil refinery, which will reduce the emission of hazardous particles by over 90%.
Popović told a press conference that new equipment produced by Dutch OPV has been installed and added that this is not the end of investment planned for the Pančevo refinery.
General Manager of Serbian oil company NIS Srđan Bošnjaković said that nearly €50 million will be allocated for ...
KRUŠEVAC (Serbia) - Kruševac-based Nikolo company has opened a “Recycling Park” in Kruševac industrial zone, first of the kind in Serbia.
Nikolo Company that specializes in plastic packaging production and plastic materials recycling will plant a tree for each tone of processed plastic waste.
“We herewith wish to express our gratitude to the local community that has been our major support ever since we set up a recycling unit in our plant,” company owner Nikola Kotur said at the park’s opening.
“We were ...
BELGRADE - Under the project “Strengthening of Environmental Reporting in Serbia and Montenegro”, supported by the OSCE, the EkoForum, with express permission by the Reuters Foundation, offers the journalists reporting on environmental issues a variety of materials necessary for their work, translated into Serbian language.
The materials were written by experienced reporters from the Reuters (UK based news agency) and include practical advise for journalists covering this field. The material is available for download ...
PIROT (Serbia) - The European Agency for Reconstruction set aside EUR 3mn for the construction of a waste disposal site in the Pirot area (Eastern Serbia).
Pirot city manager Milorad Spasić said that the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) would set aside funds for the projects so as to enable all four municipality of the Pirot region successfully tackle the problem of solid waste management.
Bela Palanka and Babušnica municipalities will invest additional EUR 180,000 each in the project, Dimitrovgrad EUR ...
BELGRADE - Serbia plans to construct four small hydroelectric power plants with a combined capacity of 4.3 MW in the next two years.
News agency SeeNews has cited an official from the state-owned power monopoly, Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS), as saying that the plants will be built to increase the share of renewable energy sources in overall electricity production in Serbia.
The project is currently in the design stage. The EPS official noted that the new plants will be built near existing power plants because t...
SUBOTICA (Serbia) - Public utility company “Vodovod i kanalizacija” from Subotica has signed on 30th March 2007 €4.7 million contract with Dutch company DHV along with its partners: Fideco and Gemax from Belgrade. The contract is for the construction of a complete sludge processing line for the wastewater treatment plant in the city of Subotica (Northern Serbia).
DHV will design and construct the sludge processing line in Subotica over the next 2 years. The contract is an extension to the currently ongoing € 9.9 millio...
BELGRADE - Serbia's customs authorities seized a shipment of 98 rare butterflies from the Solomon Islands intended for illegal sale, the country's environment protection office said on Tuesday.
The dead butterflies, wrapped in paper and stuffed into a cardboard box, belonged to species listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, meaning that special licences are needed for their trade.
"After checking with the services of the Solomon Islands... it was determined...
PRAHOVO (Serbia) - Bulgaria set out to receive damages for an oil slick that polluted the Danube River in September 2006. The demand for compensation has been voiced in a meeting of high-ranking officials from the environmental ministries of Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia in the Serb town of Prahovo near Bulgarian border, where the pollution first originated from.
The meeting was initiated by Bulgaria's Deputy Environment Minister Lyubka Kachakova, Bulgarian media reported. Minister Kachakova said the pollution from the...
BELGRADE - The Serbian Environmental Protection Directorate has filed charges against a company suspected of shipping radioactive material.
INOS-Balkan, a company based in the western Serbian town of Valjevo, last week shipped containers of scrap iron that measured increased radioactivity.
Regular control discovered the heightened radioactivity levels in the train shipment parked in Novi Sad, destined for Bulgaria, alarming the authorities last Friday.
The Directorate also said it decided to revoke the...
KARLOVAC (Croatia) - Journalists from Croatia and other countries in the region gathered yesterday, March 18, in Karlovac, for a three-day forum aiming to improve the quality of reporting on the problem of waste management in Croatia.
The Forum includes lectures by experts in area of waste management from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Environmental Fund and Croatian Toxicology Bureau, which are to be followed by Q&A sessions, discussions and workshops.
The Forum’s aims to review weaknesses a...
SZENTENDRE (Hungary) - A sub-regional workshop on “Capacity building for the Aarhus Clearinghouse Mechanism and Electronic Information Tools” took place on 8–9 March 2007 in Szentendre, Hungary.
The workshop was organized by The UNECE Aarhus Convention Secretariat, in partnership with the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), which hosted the event.
During the event BlueLink received special acknowledges for “Leading Contributor” to the Aarhus CHM. The appreciation was also for t...
VIENNA - The European Commission and Environment Ministers from all 16 countries sharing the Danube River Basin and Black Sea region today adopted a new Declaration on the Enhancement of Cooperation during a High Level Meeting in Bucharest, Romania.
The 16 countries are Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Each country is a party to one or both of the protection convention...
LIONEL-BOULET (Canada) - The RETScreen Clean Energy Project Analysis Software recently passed the 100,000 users milestone. Mr. Dermot Gibbons of the Kinspan Group plc, a building products manufacturer headquartered in Ireland, was officially the 100,000th registered user.
RETScreen is experiencing exponential growth with demand for the software now expanding at more than 500 new users every week. RETScreen is used in 217 countries, lead by Canada (27,613), with the following countries rounding out the top 20: Unit...
GENEVA - The preparation for the sixth Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, to be held in Belgrade on 10-12 October 2007, has reached last week a new level. A number of draft documents have been improved and the draft Ministerial Declaration is taking shape. The basic format of the draft provisional agenda was welcomed.
The next preparatory meetings are due to take place from 30 May to 1 June (WGSO followed by Execom) and on 2-3 July and 30-31 August 2007 (Drafting Group for the Ministerial Declaration) ...
BRUSSELS - One of the most comprehensive databases on scholarships and grant opportunities for students in South Eastern Europe was launched today (15 February) by the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe as part of its priority work in the area of Building and Fostering Human Capital.
The database offers information for graduate students from South Eastern Europe on available scholarships and grants in the European Union Member States and beyond. While the database was compiled by the Stability Pact, the aim of...
VIENNA - The Spanish OSCE Chairmanship today announced a photo contest under the theme "Land and water, protecting our fragile environment".
The main prize for a single photo (or series) will be an Canon EOS-30D camera kit. Several runners-up will receive cash prizes of $500 each.
Entry forms and rules for the Photo Contest are available on this page or can be downloaded from:
http://www.osce.org/documents/cio/2007/02/23220_en...
PIROT (Serbia) - The Spanish company Sedesa has shown interest in constructing a regional sanitary landfill in Pirot.
Pirot municipal president Vladan Vasić said the company was also interested in establishing the entire communal waste disposal system in the district.
Vasić also said the talks with the company doing business across Europe were preliminary, and that others showed interest as well.
“In ten days we will meet with the representatives of an Austrian company”, Vasić said, adding the municip...
BELGRADE - Director of the Water Directorate at the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Nikola Marjanović announced today that together with the European Reconstruction Agency (EAR) the Directorate will implement three new projects on water management and environmental protection worth €5.3 million.
Marjanović told a press conference that the project titled "Preparation of the Water Management Information System", worth €2 million, will be implemented in two stages in the course of two yea...
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