BELGRADE - Deputy PM in charge of EU integration Bozidar Djelic on Wednesday in Belgrade promoted a book which reports said he "conceived".
Djelic - who is also minister of science in the Cvetkovic cabinet - presented the book, entitled, "Sustainable Development - Our Common Future" to the vistors and reporters at the 54th International Book Fair.
He said that at the international level, Serbia was complimented for its efforts regarding sustainable development, adding that the intensive promotion of the count...
KRAGUJEVAC - Kragujevac, just like the majority of cities in Serbia, had been trying for years to fight the unsolved and often accumulated problems that came from poor treatment of the environment - problems of inadequate waste management, pollution of air and water, zoo-hygiene in the city etc.
When taking about the state of the environment in Kragujevac, as the most acute problems we have illegal construction on the accumulation of Lake Gruza, disposal of waste, especially hazardous waste from the factory grounds ...
SUBOTICA - Subotica is one of the largest cities in Serbia and for a long time it has been struggling with several unresolved problems concerning the environment. One of the key problems is the city’s out-of-date wastewater clarifier. The unprocessed wastewater results in the contamination of Palic Lake and the ever-growing extinction of fish in the summer.
The city garbage dump is situated near the city’s largest settlement, which points out to an inadequate choice of its location, and the exploitation of the garba...
BELGRADE - Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration Bozidar Djelic today stated that the USAID will approve an additional $4.3 million of non-repayable aid for the development of the civil society in Serbia.
At a press conference held at the government building Djelic said that the USA is Serbia’s second largest donor of non-repayable fuds, recalling that since 2001 it has granted over €500 million towards improving Serbia’s administration, the energy system and for other needs of the Serbian citizens and its economy...
SREMSKA MITROVICA - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic and President of the Industricum Company Jan Driessens today signed an agreement on the sale of the bankrupt public company Matroz and a €75 million investment for the construction of a new aluminium recycling factory.
The factory will immediately employ 250 new workers, while another 2,500 will be indirectly engaged in accompanying activities.
This Industricum Company project will be the third such fact...
BELGRADE - Some 20 environmental civil society representatives from northern Serbia are taking part in a communication skills training course that ends tomorrow in Subotica and was offered as part of a project supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia.
The project, Green Info Network, implemented by the Belgrade non-governmental organization Eko Forum, aims to strengthen the capacity of environmental NGOs to communicate better with the media and the general public, and to establish a mechanism for more efficient exch...
BELGRADE - In a series of five seminars conducted by the OSCE Mission to Serbia across the country this year, Serbian misdemeanour judges and environmental inspectors received training in implementing a set of 16 new environmental laws adopted by the Government in May. The training seminars followed up on the success of similar courses the Mission offered last year in response to the country's ongoing reform of its environmental legislation.
One of the most significant new laws is the ratification of the Aarhus Co...
NOVI SAD - Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Milan Markovic announced in Novi Sad that community police will start working across Serbia as of spring 2010.
Speaking at a promotion “Community Police - Providing Order in Serbian Cities”, the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government said that community police will help local authorities implement their decisions more easily.
He said that community police will be the first people that citizens should address in case...
NEW YORK - Serbian Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic stated last night that participants in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was held yesterday as part of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, agreed that the Kyoto Protocol should be replaced with a new agreement on climate changes, to be adopted late this year in Copenhagen.
Dulic, who is attending the UN General Assembly in his capacity as the chairman of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing C...
BELGRADE - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic today opened the international symposium ‘Climate Changes on the Eve of the Second Decade of the Century’, dedicated to the celebration of the 130th anniversary of Milutin Milankovic’s birth.
Opening the symposium at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) Djelic said that Milankovic showed that Serbia can produce ingenious minds and that good results can be achieved by joining individual talents to good s...
BELGRADE - The first in the series of workshops for environmental non-government organizations from Serbia, designed to enhance their public relation skills, will be held in Subotica on 26th September, as part of the project "Green Info Network".
The project "Green Info Network", launched on 5th August 2009, is funded by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and implemented by the association EkoForum from Belgrade.
The project aims to enhance environmental NGOs' activities public visibility, with the goal to include them ...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic is to lead the Serbian delegation at the 53rd Annual Regular Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference, which will be held in Vienna from September 15 to 16.
According to a statement issued by the Deputy Prime Minister’s Cabinet, a trade agreement will be signed on the first day of the session between Serbia and Russia concerning the removal of the spent...
BELGRADE - The OSCE Mission to Serbia together with the environmental NGO "EkoForum" from Belgrade, launched, on 5 August 2009, the project dubbed "Green Info Network", aimed at increasing the visibility of environmental civil society organizations, their public activities and communication with the media.
The project, funded by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and implemented by EkoForum, features a series of workshops designed to enhance public relation skills of environmental non-governmental organisations and render...
BELGRADE - The Office for Sustainable Development of Underdeveloped Areas has launched its website at http://www.kornrp.gov.rs, aiming to provide information about underdeveloped regions in Serbia as well as their strategies and development policies.
The website will also provide updates on the work of Minister without Portfolio Sulejman Ugljanin.
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BELGRADE - Director of the company "Izvor" Radovan Rakovic and Japanese Ambassador to Serbia Toshio Tsunozaki today signed for a donation by the Japanese government to the public utility company "Izvor" from Petrovac na Mlavi.
The donation is worth €66,520 and is intended to improve ecological conditions in the city.
The signing ceremony was also attended by Serbian Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic and Petrovac na Mlavi Municipal President Radisa Dragojevic. The donation will be used to ...
BELGRADE - Thomas Moore, the Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, welcomed today the adoption by the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia of the new Law on Associations.
"This long-awaited Law will regulate the establishment of associations and set up guidelines for their registration and re-registration in line with international standards. The new legislation represents a significant contribution to the development of a vibrant and thriving civil society in Serbia," said Moore.
The OSCE Mission, in co-opera...
BELGRADE - Belgrade will today host a summit of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), with 50 environment ministers from around the world in attendance.
The conference’s opening ceremony will be addressed by Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas, Environment Minister Oliver Dulić and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
Speaking yesterday in Sremski Karlovci, Dulić said that it would be a historic conference as Serbia would be chairing UNEP for the next two years, which was the first time that Belgrade would be presiding o...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration Bozidar Djelic opened today a conference "Friends of Sustainable Serbia", at which more than 100 projects related to sustainable development, environmental protection, social policy and the development of economy and know-how will be presented.
Djelic, who is chairing the conference, said that €100 million is needed for the projects and that they will be implemented over the next three years. He said that some organisations, such as the German Organisation for ...
BELGRADE - "We expect that next week Serbia will have a set of environmental laws which shall regulate all issues related to environmental protection", said Mr. Oliver Dulić, Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, at the opening of conference on "Mass Use of Recycling in Serbia" held today.
Besides creating new workplaces, the adoption of new laws and by-laws, according to his words, shall help create new environmental policies, improve citizens' awareness of the importance of these issues and develop green econom...
BOR - Two filters installed between the melting plant and the factory for manufacturing of sulfuric acid in RTB Bor were set in motion yesterday by the Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulić as a part of the campaign "Let's Clean up Serbia".
By installing two wet electrofilters in RTB Bor plants sulphur dioxide air pollution will be reduced for 12%, because their utilization of such substance will be higher for the exactly the same percent during the copper processing. For the purpose of installing th...
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