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Government allocates RSD 5m for promotion of organised tourism

Belgrade, 11 June 2021

The Serbian government adopted today the Bill on amendments to the Law on nature protection, which defines more precisely the procedure of the Evaluation of acceptability for the ecological network and the provisions on ecological network.

In this way, one of the most important processes in the protection of nature, and that is the process of establishing the ecological network of Serbia, i.e. of the European Union NATURA 2000, is defined in line with the requirements of the Directive on the protection of natural habitats and wild flora and fauna and the Directive on protection of wild birds.

A provision is introduced which prescribes that the region of an ecological network, which is at the same time a protected area or is located within the border of the protected area or borders it, is managed by the manager of that protected area.

Legal solutions also allow for the formation of the Council of users of the protected area. In this way, a further harmonisation with regulations of the European Union is carried out.

The government also adopted today the Bill on the confirmation of the Partnership, trade and cooperation agreement between the Serbian government and the UK government, of the Joint declaration on trilateral access to the rules of origin and of the Joint declaration on the connection between the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland and the Partnership, trade and cooperation agreement.

Given that tourism industry has suffered the greatest losses during the coronavirus pandemic, the government adopted the Decree on the conditions and ways of allocating and using funds for the promotion of organised tourism in the territory of the Republic of Serbia.

On the basis of this Decree, by which a budget totalling RSD 5 million has been earmarked, the right to subsidy belongs to tourist agencies that are registered in the territory of Serbia and have a valid licence, after they complete organised trips of tourist groups of domestic or foreign tourists (a group must contain at least 15 tourists).

The value of the subsidy for the completed three to four nights for an organised tourist trip, i.e. for the completed two to four nights for an international congress /international corporate event, totals €15 per foreign tourist, whereas the value of the subsidy for the completed five or more nights for an organised tourist trip, i.e. for an international congress /international corporate event totals $20 per foreign tourist.

The government made the decision to donate 5,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the Tuzla Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the aim of helping citizens of that canton in the fight against coronavirus and reaching herd immunity.