Ministry of Environmental Protection

In 2019 it banned the investor in the Zvonce small hydropower plant from carrying out works in Rakita and ordered the pipes removed from the river, but the decision had still not been enforced a year and a half later, so local residents broke through the pipe themselves. According to CINS, its inspectors found violations at Zijin in Bor at least five times, but, as RERI warns, never once halted the plant's operations.

Affairs

• Gudurica Peak: protection reduced for a private wind farm: Through a re-evaluation of the protection of the Vršac Mountains, it lifted the strictest protection regime from eight hectares of the summit earmarked for the radar
• Linglong granted permit despite hazardous chemicals: Is due to decide whether to approve Linglong's safety report, submitted in December 2025; did not tell RFE/RL how far it has got
• Small hydropower plants and Stara Planina: It ordered the investor to remove the pipes from the Rakitska river, but a year and a half later it had still not enforced its own decision
• Zijin in Bor and Majdanpek: pollution, relocations and workers: On 29 April 2022, two days after workers died, it gave its approval to the study for a larger smelter, when work was already under way

People

• Irena Vujović: Minister of Environmental Protection
• Goran Trivan: minister of environmental protection