Kosovo and Macedonia – Established a Joint Commission for environmental protection

In December 2013, Kosovo and Macedonia have established a joint commission for environmental protection and spatial planning, which will be oriented towards processing and proposing joint appropriate measures; organizational, legal and technical cooperation on environment issues. Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of Kosovo, Mr, Dardan Gashi, and Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of[…..]

Environment Report and Literature Collection

ATRC started the process of collecting the Environment Reports, Literature, publication, reports, evaluations etc which will be good tools for having reference, data and source of information regarding different environment topics. The most reports, analyses, environment evaluations are collected from the Agency for Protection of the Environment and same other from the Ministry of Environment,[…..]

Environmental Education for future EU citizens

On December 20th, 2013, at the premises of Journalists’ Association of Serbia (UNS), Environmental Ambassadors organised the seminar „Environmental Education for Further EU Citizens“.  Almost 20 schools participated. This participatory seminar was extremely successful!  Motivated teachers were interesting in all topics; however recycling and upcycling, as well as involving children as the environmental reporters, as the tool to educate[…..]

National Workshop on “Improvement of energy efficiency in residential building in Albania”

Co-PLAN, Ekolevizja, Milieukontakt Albania and Eden Centre co-organized a national workshop on the 12th of December 2013, focusing on aspects of residential energy efficiency, and to fulfill the following objectives: (i) Provide an analysis of the institutional and legislative progress to date, in the energy efficiency sector in condominiums; (ii) Present recommendations to improve the[…..]

Kosovo, demolition of illegal buildings in Prevalla tourist area

Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning in December of the 2013 has begun demolition of illegal buildings constructed in violation of the Urban Regulatory Plan for Prevalla Tourist Area. Tourist areas; Prevalla is declared as a protected area by law since 1986. After conflict in 1999, in this area were build around 200 illegal houses,[…..]

ENV.net region news: European Affairs ministers give green light to Serbia’s EU negotiations

EU ministers for European affairs on December 17, 2013,  in Brussels approved the negotiating mandate for the accession negotiations with Serbia and evaluated the progress on the enlargement and stabilisation and association process. They also agreed for the continuing negotiations on the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Kosovo, noted the important progress on reforms in Turkey and substantial[…..]

Participation on the Workshop for strategic planning of further work SECO mechanism

In the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, on 16 December 2013th , Workshop for strategic planning of further work SECO mechanism is organised. Workshop organizers are: the Office for European Integration of Serbia – Department of Planning, Programming, Monitoring and Reporting on EU Funds and Development Assistance, Office of cooperation with Civil Society – Government of Serbia,  TACSO[…..]