About the project

Project of development of the Ecoregister, National Metaregister for Environmental Information

Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia and the Environmental Protection Agency of the Republic of Serbia, with the support of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), have conducted a project of the development of the Ecoregister, which represents the National Metaregister for Environmental Information. The project was conducted during 2012, and it represented a part of the implementation process of the Strategy for the Implementation of the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters – the Aarhus Convention („Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 103/11). Ecoregister represents an electronic database and a portal to the existing databases and documents with environmental information that are available on the Internet. Ecoregister comprises environmental information that is kept and maintained by responsible ministries, agencies, local governments, protected area managers, as well as the available data on the state of all segments of the environment (air, water and soil pollution), waste, pollution emitters, flora and fauna, etc.
The main aim of the Ecoregister establishment is to provide quick, easy and simple public access to environmental information, and to improve general availability of such information for the general public. For the information that is not available in electronic or other formats, Ecoregister will contain information about institutions that are responsible for their publishing and maintenance, with the contact data of responsible persons in those institutions, and the description of the application procedure for the access to information.

Ecoregister development team:

• Ivan Jarić
• Marija Smederevac-Lalić
• Nada Ćosić
• Nenad Jakovljević (Web Factory), web developer

Other project participants:

• Tina Janjatović, Ministry of Energy, Development and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia
• Dejan Lekić, Environmental Protection Agency of the Republic of Serbia
• Milenko Jovanović, Environmental Protection Agency of the Republic of Serbia
• Elizabeta Radulović, Environmental Protection Agency of the Republic of Serbia
• Olivera Zurovac-Kuzman, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) – Mission to Serbia

Persons who also provided substantial contribution to the project:

• Ljubinka Kaluđerović, Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities
• Maja Radosavljević, Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia