Normative - Legal protection of water

Spalević, Žaklina and Knežević, Mirjana and Dimitrijević, Duško (2013) Normative - Legal protection of water. Metalurgia International, XVIII (8). pp. 117-121. ISSN 1582-2214

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Abstract

Water Framework Directive belongs to the basic EU legislation; it regulates water protection and preservation in Europe and ensures its long-term quality use through precisely determined standards that member states must reach by the set deadlines. The Directive applies to surface, transitional, coastal and ground waters. Water protection in the Republic of Serbia is legally regulated by means of the Law on Environmental Protection and the Law on Waters. The Law on Environmental Protection prescribes the adoption of the National strategy for sustainable management of natural resources and domains and of the National program of environmental protection as basic strategic documents. This law introduces the category of special state interest area in the field of environmental protection. The Government is the competent authority which establishes the criteria and identifies the area of special state interest in the domain of environmental protection and determines the amount and manner of payment of the compensation for environmental pollution in these areas. The Law on Waters regulates the legal status of waters, integrated water management, management of water objects and land, sources and the manner of financing water management as well as other issues pertaining to water management. The existing legislation should represent a foundation for further legal work in the field, in order to ensure water quality, water management, irrigation and drought management. Harmonization of the legislation of the Republic of Serbia with the legislation of the European Union, which primarily concerns more intense environmental protection, is developing in the direction of conforming to the understanding of water as a strategic resource in Europe.

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