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The Administrative Court of Belgrade has ruled that the Ministry of the Environment must decide again on the appeal of the investor of the small hydroelectric power station “Zvonce” against the decision that prohibits him from carrying out works, announced the Center for Investigative Journalism (CINS).
The verdict, which the CINS published on its website, was issued on September 8 and establishes that the investor’s claim was founded, because the Ministry of Environmental Protection did not correctly interpret the deadline to present objections to the Act of the inspection carried out.
Subsequently, the Ministry rejected the investor’s appeal as unfounded, which the Administrative Court of Belgrade has now annulled with this verdict and returned for a new decision.
In a statement to CINS, the owner of SHPP “Zvonce”, Goran Belic, says that he hopes that in the appeal procedure, the Ministry will annul his first decision, which prohibited him from carrying out works.
According to Belic, this verdict does not affect the second process in which it is decided whether the construction permit will be revoked or not.
This procedure is being carried out before the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure and is still ongoing.
Let’s not drown Belgrade: Stop the construction of SHPP throughout Serbia
The “No to Belgrade” initiative announced that it demands that the construction of mini-hydroelectric plants in the whole of Serbia be stopped, they said, “unequivocally and without delay.”
The statement said that they demanded that the existing rivers be freed from pipes and that the total destruction of the environment be stopped “for the benefit of people close to the authorities,” as well as that the existing legislation in that area be regulated exclusively in the sense of environmental protection.
They considered the decision of the Administrative Court that annulled the decision of the Ministry of Environmental Protection on the extraction of pipes from the Rakitska River as “a kind of violence against the citizens of all Serbia who are resolutely opposed to the construction of mini hydroelectric plants in our country” .
“The great struggle of the population of Stara Planina, but also of the people of Sirogojno, Zlatibor, Kokin Brod, Gledićki planini, Resavski kraj, Knjaževac, Nišava district, Raška, Valjevo, Kraljevo or Kamena gora, as well as the support of Every part of the country and abroad tells us that “mini hydroelectric plants are being built against the public interest and exclusively with the intention that people benefit by endangering public and natural assets”, said Ne da (vi) mo Beograd.
They added that in all the regions mentioned, as well as in other places in more than 850 localities, the rivers are “in danger by pipes and concrete”, while the life of birds, fish, but also of other animals and people is in danger. “for the benefit of a small group. people close to the authorities.”
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