Anual report for 2011. of Sector for control and surveillance, download.

The Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and UNDP organized the First Consultative Workshop on Climate Change and Green Economy in the context of the Rio + 20 Summit. The workshop aimed at preparation for Serbia's participation at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in December this year, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held in June 2012.Different stakeholders from various organizations, Ministries, state institutions and civil society attended the workshop.

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.

"On June 4^th, 289,534 volunteers took part in the campaign "Big Cleaning of Serbia" and removed over 150,000 cubic meters of waste from 5,311  locations all over the country," said the Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Mr Oliver Dulić.

 "We are very satisfied with the results of the campaign and we would like to thank all the citizens, i.e. volunteers, who took part in the "Big Cleaning of Serbia". The Ministry and the local self-government units organized this campaign in order to celebrate the World Environment Day. The campaign "Big Cleaning of Serbia" was organized for the second year in a row with the support of numerous business organizations, civil society organizations, schools and media.  Please, allow me to express my sincere gratitude to the main promoter of the campaign, Mr Novak Djoković, as well as to our volunteers," - said the Minister Dulić.

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.

Today, more than 270.000 volunteers took part in the "Let's Clean up Serbia" campaign by cleaning up over 3.000 locations in 169 municipalities in Serbia.

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.