# Ministry of Mining and Energy of the Republic of Serbia

Under minister Zorana Mihajlović, in 2013 it allocated 293 sites for small hydropower plants, some of them, according to CINS, to companies with hidden offshore ownership and to companies owned by officials in a possible conflict of interest. It opposed a legal ban on lithium exploration, and after eight miners were killed at the Soko mine it filed a criminal complaint against 14 people, but no proceedings followed. The prosecutor's office dismissed its complaint against Grčić over the collapse of EPS.

## Affairs

- [The collapse of EPS under Milorad Grčić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/eps-kolaps-grcic)
- [Gudurica Peak: protection reduced for a private wind farm](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/guduricki-vrh-radar-vetropark): Asked who is behind the Samoš wind farm, it referred journalists to the provincial secretariat
- [The „Jadar“ project and the persecution of locals and activists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jadar-rio-tinto): It said the project "must be discussed" and called the demand to halt geological exploration a "rash idea"
- [Sale of the “Jaroslav Černi” Institute to Milenijum tim](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jaroslav-cerni-milenijum-tim)
- [Small hydropower plants and Stara Planina](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/mini-hidroelektrane): In 2013 it allocated 293 sites for small hydropower plants; because the checks were incomplete, companies with hidden offshore owners also received sites
- [Deaths of eight miners at the Soko mine](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rudnik-soko): The inspectorate found work without approval, and the ministry filed a complaint against 14 people
- [Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/telekom-kupovina-medija)
- [Zijin in Bor and Majdanpek: pollution, relocations and workers](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/zijin-bor): In 2022 it backed relocating the entire village of Krivelj; according to CORE, the mining inspectorate never visited the damaged cemetery

## People

- [Dubravka Đedović Handanović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/dubravka-djedovic-handanovic): minister of mining and energy
- [Jovanka Atanacković](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/jovanka-atanackovic): state secretary at the Ministry of Mining and Energy
- [Zorica Vukadinović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/zorica-vukadinovic): national mining inspector
- [Zorana Mihajlović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/zorana-mihajlovic): Minister of Mining and Energy
- [Aleksandar Antić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/aleksandar-antic): minister of mining and energy
- [Zorana Mihajlović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/zorana-mihajlovic): Minister of Energy, Development and Environmental Protection

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/ministarstvo-rudarstva-i-energetike  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)