Contents of this page: Establishment Staff Budget Achievements Projects Expertise Donors Contact address Project Offices Year of Establishment: 1998 Current Staff: Country Office Director: Jovan Pavlovic Project Managers: Uros Miloradovic Miljana Zekonja Colic Ana Popovic Mira Puric Project staff: Aleksandra Mladenovic Jovana Risovic Office Support: Financial and Administrative Officer Financial Assistant Webmaster Albert Milo Jasmina Marinkovic Zvezdana Lipovac Tihomir Rekic Damir Oravec CO Project Office Managers: Podgorica Pirot Snezana Dragojevic Marjan Djordjevic Annual Turnover in 2005:  Annual turnover of the REC Country Office Serbia shows continuous growth started from 315,000 EUR in 2001, via 663,000 EUR in 2002, 950,000 EUR in 2003, to the expected 1,200,000 EUR in 2004. Around 87% of annual turnover represent direct investment into environmental sector of Serbia and Montenegro. Major Achievements: REC Serbia operates in Serbia as an international organisation, following the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the REC and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of FR Yugoslavia in June 2001. With the government of the Republic of Montenegro the REC signed a bilateral agreement on the REC’s legal status in Montenegro in April 2004. REC Serbia follows the REC’s general mission to assist in solving environmental problems by providing various services, encouraging cooperation among relevant environmental stakeholders (including national and local governments, businesses, non-governmental organisations and citizens), supporting free exchange of information and promoting public participation in environmental decision making. REC Serbia envisions a democratic, developed, and environmentally sustainable society for Serbia and Montenegro as being an integral part of Europe. REC Serbia follows the REC’s strategic goals, taking into account the specific circumstances of Serbia as a pre-accession country to the EU. The strategic goals of REC Serbia are: to provide high quality, innovative, demand-driven services to stakeholders, aimed at the greatest environmental benefits for both Serbia's and the globe, and to implement sustainable development in practice; to provide, at and between national and local levels, a neutral platform for dialogue, networking and cooperation among stakeholders and partners; to maintain the organisation’s independent character through a successful model of governance, international legal status in Serbia, diversified funding and quality of work; and to continue the organisation’s proactive development, thus enabling the delivery of its mission in Serbia’s rapidly changing contexts of political, social and economic reconstruction. The REC SCG Compendium of Achievements 2001/2004 comprises the main facts about REC CO SCG, its activities, main fields of work and covered topic areas. Main Projects: In 2001-2005 Country Office Serbia and Montenegro has implemented numerous projects targeting different beneficiary stakeholders (for the project descriptions, please see the REC SCG Compendium of Achievements 2001/2004). These projects consist of the following: Implementation of the Priority Environmental Investment Programme for South Eastern Europe Facilitating Access to Environmental Information EarthWire Serbia and Montenegro Environmental Resource Centre (ERC) Development of National Information Systems, REReP 1.8 Assistance in Environmental Law Drafting in South Eastern Europe, REReP 1.3/CARDS 1.3 Development of Environmental Legislation in Serbia and Montenegro (YUGOLEX) Capacity Building for Environmental Impact Assessment, REReP 1.4 AIMS - Support for Ratification and Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, REReP 1.12 Capacity to Develop National GHG Inventories in Serbia and Montenegro NAWAMS — National Water Monitoring Strategy Strengthening environmental implementation and enforcement in SEE countries forming part of the stabilisation and association process Support for activities of the Balkan Environmental Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement Network (BERCEN) Supporting the International Sava Basin Commission Initiative Cross-Border Municipal Cooperation: Drina River Basin, REReP, 4.3.27 Development of Project Preparation Capacity for Environmental Investments, REReP 5.3 Assisting community development in three municipalities of Serbia and Montenegro by addressing environmental planning issues Development and Strengthening of NGOs — Cooperative Grants, REReP 2.5.1 Environmental NGO Electronic Networking in South Eastern Europe Support for Developing Strategies for Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in South Eastern Europe, REReP 2.2 Promotion of Networks and Exchange of Experiences in SEE Countries — West Stara Planina, and Skadar Lake, REReP 4.3.23 REMUS — Regional Municipal Waste Management Project SWAMAP — Municipal Solid Waste Management Plan WAMASPO — Designing a Strategic Policy Framework for Waste Management Supporting the Carpathian Convention – Diagnostic Audit and Guide to Implementation of the Carpathian Convention Diagnostic audit – Tisza River Basin assessment of policy, legal and institutional frameworks related to sustainable water management in five Tisza riparian countries Country Office Expertise: Capacity Building Environmental Information Environmental Law and Policy Local Environmental Development and Local Initiatives NGO Support Public Participation Resource Management and Nature Conservation Waste Management and Hazardous Waste Management Climate Change Donors for Projects: Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DANCEE) DEFRA UK Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) EC EuropAid Cooperation Office, Unit A6 Embassy of Netherlands in Serbia and Montenegro European Commission Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of the Republic of Germany (BMZ) Federal Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Germany Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Germany Government of the Republic of Serbia Italian Trust Fund Japan Special Fund Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Ministry of Environment, Italy Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway SDC, Switzerland Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands UNDP UNEP/GRID-Arendal US Embassy, Belgrade US EPA Government of the United States Contact Address: The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) Country Office Serbia Primorska 31, P.O. Box 599 11006 Belgrade, Serbia Tel: (381-11) 329-2595, 329-2899, 329-3010, 329-3011 Fax (381-11) 329-3020 E-mail: office@recyu.org  Web: www.recyu.org Project Office Address: REC Project Office West Stara Planina Srpskih Vladara 104/2 18300 Pirot, Serbia Serbia Tel/Fax:((381-10) 256-68 E-mail: starapl@ptt.yu

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