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HEP ANNUAL REPORT 2010
CHAPTER 8 - REPORTS BY OTHER HEP GROUP COMPANIES
APO d.o.o., USLUGE ZAŠTITE OKOLIŠA
DAMIR SUBAŠIΔ
DIRECTOR
APO d.o.o. usluge zaštite okoliša (APO Environmental Services) is a consulting and engineering company specializing
in environmental protection. In 2010, APO’s business operations were influenced by a number of negative
parameters. The greatest problem was the general economic crisis and recession, manifested as lack of cash for the
financing of services offered by APO on the market and as a decrease in the prices of services almost to the level of
unprofitability. There was a lack also of services, and thereby no planned income from the services provided within
HEP Group, which APO partly compensated by the increasing of income outside HEP, thanks to greater efforts made
in the external market.
At the end of last year, thanks to APO’s professional references and staff, the Ministry of Environmental
Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, on the basis of the Rules on conditions for the issuance of consents
to legal persons for the carrying out of environmental protection activities issued to APO the authorizations for the
preparation of 15 different documents in the area of environmental protection. The authorizations relate to professional
activities of preparing strategic studies, engineering solutions for plants concerning integrated environmental
requirements which include the activities of preparing of studies on engineering solutions and the activities of
preparing and processing of documentation for the request for the determination of integrated environmental
requirements, including preparation of preliminary analyses and studies, safety reports, environmental protection
programs, reports on the state of the environment, action plans and other documents, which together with existing
authorizations and concessions open the opportunities to APO for expansion of activities to include preparation of
almost all environmental and nature protection documents.
The main groups of services provided by APO were:
- preparation of basic documents on environmental protection system
- preparation of environmental protection studies, reports and plans
- hazardous waste management
- cleanup of contaminated areas
- site selection and investigation
- state of affairs reports in line with provisions of the Regulation on Integrated Environmental Requirements
– IPPC
- eco-auditing and EMS and ISO 14.000 introduction
- preparation of safety reports
- general environmental protection consulting
- sustainable development
- decommissioning, radioactive waste and radioactive materials
- public relations relating to environmental protection and sustainable development
In 2010, either prepared or under preparation were 96 studies and documents from the area of environmental
protection and waste management (strategic documents and programs, safety reports, integrated environmental
requirements, environmental impact studies, environmental protection programs, plans and rules on waste management).
Supervision was carried out over clean-up of three locations. Waste, mainly hazardous, in the amount of
538,173, was disposed of.
APO followed and promptly reacted to new requirements posed by legislation on companies in 2010. APO’s
expert team prepared several environmental protection studies for IPARD competition, namely, for the measures
101 and 103 for which the greatest number of calls for proposals has been published so far.