Category: Land, water and workers
Period: from 25 Jun 2025
Outcome: No one investigated (as of 14 Mar 2026)
On 19 February 2026 the Assembly of AP Vojvodina adopted an amendment to the Fruška Gora spatial plan that allows a special-purpose facility for the Serbian Armed Forces on Pavlasov čot; the plan covers 19.21 hectares within the national park. The plan was paid for by a private company, Wind park Samoš, the same company that paid for the amendments to the plan for the Vršac Mountains. The “Defend the Forests of Fruška Gora” movement claims that a private interest was presented as a public one. The province says the plan was drawn up solely in the public interest.
In a decision of June 2025, the Assembly of AP Vojvodina launched an amendment to the plan for the Fruška Gora special-purpose area under a shortened procedure. The plan's stated vision is for the “Pavlosov čot” special-purpose facility to ensure continuous, unobstructed surveillance and control of the airspace. Its goal is to relocate the existing facility, that is, to build one at a new site.
According to the documentation, the facility is meant to ensure continuity of the operational and functional capabilities of the Serbian Armed Forces. The plan covers 19.21 hectares in Beočin, Irig and part of Sremska Mitrovica.
According to the Assembly's decision, the funds for drafting the plan amendments are provided by Wind park Samoš, a Novi Sad company. The decision was allegedly also initiated by the Ministry of Defence, which sent the initiative to the Agency for Spatial Planning and Urbanism, the body drafting the plan.
The company is allegedly owned by Lazar Lazendić. The same company is also paying for an amendment to the Vršac Mountains plan to relocate a radar, which is the subject of the Gudurički vrh affair.
The Assembly adopted the plan on 19 February 2026 by 77 votes to 17. Deputy Provincial Secretary Dušan Panović said the amendments were being made to implement a 2025 conclusion of the Government of Serbia. He said they had been drawn up “exclusively in the public interest”, for a defence and national security project.
Opposition members claimed the plan was financed by a private investor. The Assembly's president allegedly reprimanded members whenever they mentioned the investor's name.
The “Defend the Forests of Fruška Gora” movement claims that all of its objections to the draft were rejected. According to the movement, the Government's conclusion is not available on the Government's website, and no decision on overriding public interest was adopted. It also says the state-owned sites of Crveni čot and Brankovac were not considered, even though they are already degraded and built on.
The movement also says the plot on Pavlasov čot was returned to the Serbian Orthodox Church through restitution.
The movement claims that the Kačarevo military radar centre technically interferes with the operation of a future wind farm owned by Wind park Samoš. That, according to the movement, is why the radar is being moved to Fruška Gora. Published reports contain no response to that claim from the company, its owner or the military.
As early as July 2025, the 021 portal recalled that the same investor had financed the amendments to the Fruška Gora plan, in an article about moving the radar to Gudurički vrh.
On 14 March 2026, the Serbia Centre party asked the competent authorities to establish who is financing the plan and whether coordinated changes to plans are opening the way for the same business circle. Dragana Arsić, a representative of the movement, claims that the decision will cost about 19 hectares of forest, that the complex will be fenced off and closed to the public, and that the decision has already been made.