Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI)

The Regulatory Institute for Renewable Energy and the Environment, whose complaints led to Zijin being convicted several times for illegal construction and to the prosecutor's office ordering Zijin to pay a million dinars for polluting the Mali Pek river; acting on its lawsuit, the Administrative Court annulled a government decision that had allowed Zijin to avoid an impact assessment of the entire project. It also filed criminal complaints against the investor in the small hydropower plant in Rakita, and established that there is no legally required programme for the privatisation of the "Jaroslav Černi" Institute.

Affairs

• Gudurica Peak: protection reduced for a private wind farm: It warned that the state is moving the radar for the sake of an investor and called on institutions to annul the decisions on the radar
• Sale of the “Jaroslav Černi” Institute to Milenijum tim: It said there was no privatisation programme for the Institute as required by law
• Linglong granted permit despite hazardous chemicals: Reported Linglong's construction without a permit to prosecutors and challenged the environmental approvals before the Administrative Court
• Small hydropower plants and Stara Planina: Reportedly filed criminal complaints against the investor in Rakita and Pirot's leaders; the court dismissed its lawsuit over the permit
• Zijin in Bor and Majdanpek: pollution, relocations and workers: The Administrative Court upheld its lawsuit and annulled the Government's decision that separated Zijin's overburden disposal project