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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Intensifying steps to improve air quality

Belgrade, 7 April 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic chaired today the Working Group for systemic solutions to air protection issues, which analysed the steps taken by the operational teams since the last meeting.

The problem of air pollution is divided into four basic segments: individual furnaces, traffic, energy efficiency and sources of air pollution from agriculture.

Participants in the meeting established further steps related to afforestation of poorer quality agricultural land in 10 local self-government units, such as Belgrade, Nis, Kragujevac and others, which are among the most polluted when it comes to PM particles.

Brnabic underlined that it is necessary to determine what the additional effects of greater afforestation will be and pointed out that there are already concrete results, but that the intention is to do much more in the future.

The members of the Working Group agreed that in the next 24 months, boiler plants in public institutions that currently use coal, heavy fuel oil and fuel oil for heating, and for which there are technical possibilities of connection to the district heating system or to the gas pipeline, should be shut down.

The Prime Minister noted that the citizens of Serbia are not sufficiently informed about the fact that the government recognises this problem, that it is working intensively on it, and that the entire Action Plan accompanying the Air Protection Programme in Serbia for the period from 2022 to 2030 will soon be presented to the public in order to see the concrete projects that are being implemented.

The members of the Working Group stated that one of the solutions for households is a subsidised transition to ecological heating methods, and when it comes to reducing pollution caused by traffic, 10 new electric chargers will be installed on highways during this year.

At the meeting, it was pointed out that intensive work will be done to make it financially easier for all citizens to switch to environmentally friendly energy sources that do not pollute the air.