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The National Solid Waste Management Strategy (2008), as well as the National
Waste Management Plan (2005) and the revised version of this document
contain specifications for the establishment of a regional solid waste management
system (a maximum of eight regions, corresponding to the country’s statistical
regions). Inter-municipal public enterprises will be established for the
purposes of regionalising waste management in order to apply economies of scale
and implement EU standards. Regional companies owning facilities that include
landfills will be established, while individual communal enterprises will be responsible
for fee collection and will pay the respective regional waste management
centre a fee per tonne of landfilled waste.
In Montenegro, municipal publicly owned waste management public utilities
carry out the collection, transportation and disposal of waste. The National Waste
Management Policy, the Strategic Waste Management Master Plan (SWMMP) for
the regional level (2005 to 2014), and the National Waste Management Plan (2008
to 2012) provide a basis for the necessary reform of the waste sector.
According to the 2005 SWMMP, Montenegro is divided into eight waste collection
areas. The future landfill network and transfer stations are based on suggested
groupings and estimated amounts of waste. Each area in which waste is
collected will be using one inter-municipal landfill constructed according to the
requirements of the EU Waste Landfill Directive.
Within the newly established Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environmental
Protection (MSPEP, formerly the Ministry of Tourism and Environment) a project
implementation unit was established in 2008. Its main goal is to provide support
to local self-governments in the preparation of project documentation, and
to assist in securing financing from international organisations and IFIs. It will also
assist in the formation of eight regional waste management public utility companies.
According to the Strategic Waste Management Master Plan, the territory of
Montenegro is divided into eight waste management regions: Bar, Berane, Kotor,
Herceg Novi, Mojkovac, Niksic, Pljevlja and Podgorica.
Currently in Serbia there are municipal publicly owned waste management utility
companies that have been trying to attract private sector participation. In smaller
municipalities, a single PUC covers the water and waste sectors and other communal
services, often cross-subsidising between sectors. As mentioned in Chapter 2,
the 2003 National Waste Management Strategy envisages 29 regional sanitary landfills,
44 transfer stations, 17 recycling centres, seven composting facilities, and four
incinerators. The updated Waste Management Strategy, currently being drafted,
will probably increase the number of composting facilities required, in line with the
waste management hierarchy set out in the EU Waste Framework Directive.
Waste management regions will include three to nine municipalities with between
90,000 and 550,000 inhabitants. There are two ongoing regional projects in
which several municipalities will use the same landfill — in Duboko (Uzice region)
and Muntina Padina (Pirot region). For these two locations there are ongoing
negotiations and procedures for establishing a regional PUC/waste
management centre, but neither of the two RWMCs has yet been established.
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