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Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning has translated more than 75 rules in the field of environment, while preparing the answers for European Commission Questionnaire.

The first Serbia-European Union Forum was held on September 9, 2011 in Belgrade, where the Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Oliver Dulic, stated that both Green Economy and Sustainable Development imply huge investments in this sector, which should contribute to new job openings and better living standards in the country, but also rationalize the use of natural resources.

Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning has translated more than 75 rules in the field of environment, while preparing the answers for European Commission Questionnaire.

Serbian citizens consider that the country has made major development in environmental area, which has also been confirmed by the Serbian European Integration Office SEIO research. As a result of a research that has been conducted in the period of time between June 16, 2011 and June 23, 2011, 14 percent of the citizens have stated that environmental sector is making the biggest steps forward. As a reminder, one-third of all the regulations which are required to synchronize with European Union legislation fall under the environmental region.

Swedish Ambassador to Serbia, Crister Aps and State Secretary of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Ivica Radovic, have signed a contract which agrees on help and support of infrastructural investments in the environmental protection sector, in cooperation between Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency SIDA and the Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning.

Serbian Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Oliver Dulić and Azerbaijani Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Huseingulu Bagirov signed an agreement on cooperation between the two countries in the field of environmental protection.

The agreement was signed at a meeting between the delegations of Serbia and Azerbaijan. Another 11 agreements related to other important issues (cooperation in case of emergencies, customs procedures and mutual assistance, investments, education, youth affairs and sport, agriculture, tourism, etc.) were also signed at the meeting.

Promotion of green economy, sustainable growth and cost-effective use of resources are the only answer to the current crisis, said Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Mr Oliver Dulić in Vienna at the investment forum "Serbia", organized by the chambers of commerce of Austria and Serbia.

In Bratislava on 27 May 2011, at the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians, Republic of Serbia signed two protocols of the Carpathian Convention - Protocol on sustainable Forest Management and Protocol on Sustainable Tourism. On behalf of the Government of Serbia, the aforesaid protocols were signed by Danko Prokic, Ambassador in Slovakia.

"Setting up of the Environmental Management Center (EMC) in Serbia will enable efficient decision - making processes related to the environment and environmental issues that will be based on current and relevant information," said Mr. Oliver Dulić, Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning at the "Reporting for Sustainability" conference, held on May 19, 2011 in Belgrade and thus officially announced launching of the project "Setting up Environmental Management Center in Serbia".