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Title: Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia


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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
Development of the Ecoregister, a national
metaregister for environmental information in the
Republic of Serbia
Tina Janjatovic and Ivan Jaric
Geneva, December 2013
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Ministry of Energy, Development and
    Environmental Protection of the Republic of
    Serbia and the Environmental Protection Agency of
    the Republic of Serbia, with the support of the
    Organization for Security and Co-operation in
    Europe (OSCE), have implemented a project of the
    development of the first National Metaregister
    for Environmental Information.
  • Project of the development of the first national
    metaregister for environmental information lasted
    for eight months, from May 2012 to January 2013.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • A project implementation team was established,
    consisted of four experts who worked in
    cooperation with the representatives of the
    Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
    Protection and the Environmental Protection
    Agency on database design, development and data
    gathering.
  • Metaregister was given the name Ecoregister, to
    make it more accessible to the general public.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • During the Ecoregister designing and
    development, non-governmental organizations
    engaged within the field of environmental
    protection have been timely consulted.
  • A questionnaire was sent to over 100 NGOs with a
    wide range of questions, such as those related to
    the type of environmental information they need
    during their work, as well as the types of
    information they consider important to be
    included in the Ecoregister.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Ministry also organized a public discussion with
    non-governmental sector representatives, where
    they had an opportunity to become acquainted with
    the Ecoregister development project, and to
    present their views and opinions about the
    planned contents of the database.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Regarding the legal framework for the
    Ecoregister establishment, Republic of Serbia has
    ratified the Aarhus Convention on 12th May 2009,
    which in the Article 5, paragraph 2, prescribes
    the establishment of the register for
    environmental information.
  • In 2003, a Directive 2003/4/EC of the European
    Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003
    on public access to environmental information was
    adopted, which is harmonized with the Articles 4
    and 5 of the Aarhus Convention.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • The Article 3, paragraph 5 of this Directive,
    prescribes the establishment of the registers or
    lists of the environmental information held by
    public authorities or information points, with
    clear indications of where such information can
    be found.
  • Based on these regulations, a national Strategy
    for the implementation of the Aarhus Convention,
    adopted by the Government on 31st December 2011
    (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia,
    No. 103/11), prescribed the establishment of a
    national metadata register of environmental
    information within the Measures related to the
    establishment of the efficient information
    system.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Ecoregister was installed as a subdomain of the
    Internet presentation of the Environmental
    Protection Agency of the Republic of Serbia, on
    the following web address www.ekoregistar.sepa.go
    v.rs

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Ecoregister represents an electronic database
    and a portal to the existing databases and
    documents with environmental information that are
    available on the Internet.
  • Ecoregister comprises environmental information
    that is kept and maintained by responsible
    ministries, agencies, local governments,
    protected area managers, as well as the available
    data on the state of all segments of the
    environment (air, water and soil pollution),
    waste, pollution emitters, flora and fauna, etc.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • The main aim of the Ecoregister establishment is
    to provide quick, easy and simple public access
    to environmental information, and to improve
    general availability of such information for the
    general public.
  • The provisions regarding the establishment and
    maintenance of the Ecoregister are incorporated
    into the Law on Amendments to the Law on
    Environmental Protection, which is in the
    adoption procedure.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Ecoregister contains two types of entries

Relevant institutions
Relevant documents
  • Institution types

- ministries, agencies, departments, institutes,
museums, etc.
- cities, municipalities, public utility
companies, etc.
- protected area managers
- business entities
- non-governmental organizations
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Major document types

- legal documents, strategic documents and plans
- databases, registries, information systems
- studies, reports, projects
- informational and educational documents
  • Database developed both in Serbian and English
    language

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Each document entry is characterized by several
    parameters

- document name, publication year
- document type (study, legal document, report,
etc.)
- areas covered by the document (biodiveristy,
air, soil, water, pollution, energy sources, etc.)
- language (Serbian, English or other)
- Internet link (if available)
- responsible institution(s) with their contact
data
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • For the information that is not available
    online, Ecoregister provides information about
    institutions that are responsible for their
    publishing and maintenance, with the contact data
    of responsible persons in those institutions, and
    the description of the application procedure for
    the access to information.

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Five types of data search

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Five types of data search

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Database search by maps

Protected areas
Municipalities
Enterprises
Cities
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Other Ecoregister website contents

Key national institution that ensures free public
access to information
- description of the Commisioners
responsibilities and powers
- description of public free information access
rights, and procedures for filing complaints in
case of a refusal to grant access to information
- download links for official forms for making
access to information requests and for filing
complaints
- download of relevant legal documents and
informational material
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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Currently, Ecoregister contains entries for over
    700 institutions and more than 4000 documents.
  • Ecoregister fully operational since December 2012
  • Significant number of visitors during the last
    year, but efforts are currently made to further
    improve its visibility

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
  • Major weakness of any database is the constant
    need for data updating
  • Ongoing project for Ecoregister updating, funded
    by OSCE
  • Beside contacting all relevant institutions to
    check for updates and corrections, and extensive
    Internet search, a new system for automatic data
    updating is currently being developed

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Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental
Protection of the Republic of Serbia
Thank you for your attention!
www.ekoregistar.sepa.gov.rs
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