REGIONAL WORKSHOP "AGRICULTURAL NUTRIENT POLLUTION CONTROL IN BLACK SEA DANUBE PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES"

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REGIONAL WORKSHOP "AGRICULTURAL NUTRIENT
POLLUTION CONTROL IN BLACK SEA DANUBE
PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES"

• Ministry of the Agriculture and Water Management
• Ministry for the Protection of Natural Resources
  and Environment of the Republic of Serbia

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Summary

• Background
• Country Eligibility
• Description of the Project
• Nutrient Pollution from Enterprises
• Institutional and Legal Framework
• Conclusion

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Background

• The section of the Danube that flows through
  Republic of Serbia is 588 km long of which about
  138 km constitute the state border with Croatia
  and about 213 km with Romania.
• Danubes largest tributaries, Drava, Sava and
  Tisa, empty into the Danube on Serbian territory
  increasing its flow about 2.5 times. Other
  significant tributaries that empty into the
  Danube on Republic of Serbia territory include
  Velika Morava, Tamis.

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Country Eligibility

• Serbia and Montenegro has signed and ratified on
  January 2003 the Convention on Cooperation for
  the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Danube
  River (Danube Convention) (1994, Sofia). SAM is
  also member of the International Commission for
  the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) and
  was in full cooperation with ICPDR during the
  1990s
• It participated in the preparation of the Danube
  River TDA, prepared a National Review and held a
  National Planning Workshop in 1998, and
  contributed a national action plan for SAM to the
  Five Year Nutrient Reduction Action Plan (2000).

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• In December 2002, SAM signed together with
  Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia the
  Sava River Agreement, which aims to institute
  integrated river basin management in the basin
• The Report on the State of the Environment in
  2000 and Priorities in 2001 for Serbia
  published by MENR in June 2002 identified water
  pollution in the Danube River system as a major
  environmental problem that requires immediate
  action.
• In August 2002 World Bank support in preparing an
  investment project under the GEF WB Investment
  Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Black
  Sea/Danube Basin.

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Description of the Project
The Danube Pollution Reduction Programme has
identified over 30 municipal hot spots of water
pollution in the Danube basin The project would
reduce nutrient pollution from hotspot
enterprises on the Danube River and its
tributaries through investment in cleaner
production and better waste management
technologies as well as institutional and
monitoring enforcement development Main point
source nutrient discharging enterprises in ROS
are fertilizer factories, slaughterhouse and meat
processing industries, and large pig and cattle
farms.
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• Large Livestock Farms

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Fertilizer Factories and Agro-processors

• (i) the IHP Prahova Phosphate Fertilizer Factory
• (ii) the HI Zorka Sabac Fertilizer Factory
• (iii) HIP Azotara Pancevo which was previously
  part of the large Pancevo Industrial Complex
• The objective of the Reduction of Enterprise
  Nutrient Discharges Project (RENDR) would be to
  reduce nutrient pollution from hotspot industrial
  enterprises, increase Republic of Serbias
  capacity to effectively control water quality and
  thereby meet its international commitments as
  well as harmonize with the European Union
  Directives

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Reduction of Enterprise Nutrient Discharges
Project would consist of four components (i)
Investment in Industrial Nutrient Reduction
(incl. fertilizer factories, agro-processors, and
large-scale livestock farms), (ii) Policy Reform
and Capacity Building, (iii) Awareness Raising
and Replicability Strategy and (iv) Project
Management and MonitoringThe project would fund
the policy and legal reforms that will support
reduction of industrial nutrient pollution and
support Republic of Serbia in its goal to
gradually harmonize its environmental laws and
regulations with those in the EU aquis. In
particular, the project would support
harmonization of the relevant laws and
regulations with EUs Nitrates Directive.
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Institutional and Legal Framework

• A New System Law on Environmental Protection
  has been designed to overcome some of the
  institutional shortcomings that so far have
  hampered the effective implementation of
  environmental policy including water protection.
  The Law also provides for the establishment of an
  Environmental Protection Agency that will, inter
  alia, lead to more systematic monitoring,
  enhanced environmental information, and stricter
  inspections and enforcement, including for water.
• The Draft System Law on Environmental
  Protection is in harmony with EU's Directive
  concerning integrated pollution prevention and
  control, also known as the IPPC Directive
  (96/61/EC).

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Conclusions

• According to the Rio Conference, Johannesburg
  Summit and Kiev Ministerial Conference, we
  undertake obligation to actively cooperate in the
  field of protection and sustainable use of
  international water currents, first of all the
  Danube, Save, Tisa and Ibar River, by means of
  strengthening the joint initiatives, developing
  plans for joint monitoring.
• The objective of the Reduction of Enterprise
  Nutrient Discharges Project (RENDR) would be to
  reduce nutrient pollution from hotspot industrial
  enterprises, increase Republic of Serbias
  capacity to effectively control water quality and
  thereby meet its international commitments as
  well as harmonize with the European Union
  Directives.