In the Mayoralty Building of the city of Nish, on April
7th, 2009., third assembly of the Working Group for the
Environmental protection of the national convent on
European Union took place.
On behalf of the organizers, the assembly was opened
by the president of European Movement in Serbia / Nis,
Ms. Mila Vujic, stressing out how pleased she is to see
so many participants from the region. The opening speech
was given by the mayor of city of Nis, Mr. Milos
Simonovic. After the mayors address, Mrs. Biljana
Blazevic Zec (Fund for Environmental Protection of RS)
in her thirty minute address presented economic
instruments in the are of the environment. The assembly
was continued with a presentation of the Action plan for
carrying out the National strategy for sustainable
development by professor Slobodan Milutinovic, head of
the Group for socio-economic issues working on the
development of the National strategy for sustainable
development.
Previous presentations were an excellent lead into
the discussion, that all participants took active part
in. It was a very fruitful discussion, and it produced
recommendations that will be distributed to all the
partakers of the Working group, institutions in the
region and institutions in the Republic of Serbia.
The assembly was continued with the presentation from
Mrs. Sonja Popovic (Regional group for waste management
of the Nisava Region) and Mrs. Nela Cvetkovic (City
council for ecology, tourism and catering, city of
Vranje) the theme of which was Issues of financing local
self-government in the area of the environment. The
activities of the organizations and local governing
bodies in the area of the environment in the region, on
this assembly in Nish, were discussed by Ms. Tatjana
Velickovic, head of the City committee for protection of
the environment in Leskovac, as well as Lazar Krnjeta,
president of the Association of Utility corporations of
Serbia Komdel and Ljubinka Kaludjerovic representative
of Standing conference of Towns and Municipalities of
Serbia. Internal expert of the Working group was
professor dr. dragan Todic. Afterwards the discussion
followed, that 11 members of the working group and 20
representatives of local authorities, civil and business
sector of the region took part in; Nish, Leskovac,
Pirot, Babusnica, Dimitrovgrad, Kursumlija, Ecopolis
network.
Summing up the assessments, thoughts and suggestions
brought forth at the assembly new conclusions and
recommendations were reached. |
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