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C H A P T E R 8
P R I O R I T I S AT I O N O F I N F R A S T R U C T U R E P R O J E C T S — T H E P E I P L I S T S
S T R AT E G I C M O V E S
In Kosovo (as defined under UNSCR 1244), four projects were removed as
a result of securing sufficient funds to complete their respective feasibility studies
(EUR 8 million in total) and additional funds to start implementation (EUR 10.6
million in total). Three of the projects were from the waste sector and one from the
water sector, although a common denominator in all four projects was hazardous
waste (ash landfills and mine waters). The three projects from the waste sector are
components of one larger project for the rehabilitation of the ash landfills of the
Kosovo A and B power plants. The project was added to the PEIP lists in 2005 as
a set of three projects that included the transportation of ashes from the existing
landfills to the Mirash and Bardh mining sites; the complete recultivation of the existing
ash landfills; and the installation of an ash wetting system (hydroseeding).
Since the pre-feasibility studies for the whole set of projects were completed and
adopted (at a total cost of EUR 5.5 million), the World Bank allocated an additional
EUR 9 million and the projects are now in the implementation phase and
have therefore been removed from the PEIP lists. A total of 700,000 inhabitants
will benefit from the project. The water sector project on wastewater treatment at
the Trepca Artana lead and zinc mine was introduced to the PEIP lists in 2005.
Polluted wastewater from the mine is being discharged directly into the river Marec
(and consequently into the rivers Sitnica, Ibar and Danube and the Black Sea).
After the completion of the feasibility study (EUR 1.5 million), UNEP allocated
an additional EUR 1.6 million for this project, which is now in the implementation
phase and has thus been removed from the PEIP lists. A total of around
100,000 inhabitants will benefit directly from project implementation.
In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
even though none of the projects are deemed to have made sufficient progress
to be removed from the PEIP lists, significant funds have been committed for PEIP
projects in the 2007–2009 period overall (around EUR 53 million), although none
of the projects have been fully financed. For the project for the construction of a
wastewater treatment plant for the town of Prilep, EUR 6 million were committed
by the IPA and EUR 4.5 million from the state budget. The remaining EUR 11
million should be secured from loans. The feasibility study for the project was completed
in the 2007–2009 period. A full tendering procedure (second step) is currently
in place for developing the detailed project design. The project for a sewerage
network and wastewater treatment plant in Skopje has also progressed significantly
in terms of project documentation and the securing of funds, as has the project for
the modernisation of the municipal landfill through degasification and the utilisation
of landfill gas in the Skopje (Drisla) landfill.
In Montenegro, two waste projects successfully secured complete funding. The
first phase of the project for remediation measures for Mojkovac mining waste disposal
site has been completed, and the EUR 7.5 million second phase has secured
sufficient funds from the state budget and assistance from the Government of the
Netherlands. The remaining EUR 5.55 million are expected to be financed from
the 2009 state budget. The first two phases of the EUR 11.78 million project for
the closure and remediation of the existing waste disposal site and the construc-