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EXPO REAL, 6-8 October 2008, Germany
Macedonian municipalities take part in
“Expo Real” in Germany again this year
T
hree Macedonian municipalities – Centar,
Gostivar and Bitola – and the “Kozhuv”
ski resort participated in the
EXPO REAL Fair in Munich, Germany, in the
period from 6 to 8 October 2008. This International
Commercial Property Exhibition is
attended by a large number of potential investors
from all over the world, and this year,
too, they were interested in “discovering”
attractive projects and favourable investment
conditions despite the ongoing global
economic crisis. The presentation at the Fair
was organized by GTZ (German Association
for Technical Support) and the Foreign Investments
Agency, Invest Macedonia.
The Municipality of Bitola presented its project
on the “Zabeni” industrial zone and a
hotel; Centar Municipality took part with its
project on “Cable Railway to the Millennium
Cross,” and Gostivar Municipality – with the
project “Business Centre and Sports Complex”.
Presented at the Fair were projects of
a total of 12 municipalities from Macedonia,
including Aerodrom Municipality, which had
sent seven projects: “Nice Hotels,” “Business
and Residential Centre,” “First Skyscraper
in Macedonia,” “Shopping Mall,” “Sports,
Recreational and Entertainment Area,” “IT
University” and “International Training and
Research Centre”. Radovis Municipality sent
its project “Trade Mall – Closed Market”; Valandovo
Municipality – the project for “Housing
and Business Complex”, Kocani Municipality
– the projects for “Industrial Zone,
Light Industry” and “Thermal Aqua Park”.
Stip Municipality took part with the project
“Kezovica Thermal Spa Complex”; Krusevo
Municipality – with the project “Musica Ski
Resort,” and Ohrid Municipality – with the
project titled “Bavarian village”. The Municipality
of Sveti Nikole presented its projects
titled “Devil’s Wall” and “Spa Tourist Resort,”
and Rosoman Municipality presented its
project titled “Rehabilitation Centre”.
A ZELS representative presented the projects
of all the municipalities, particularly
those that did not have their own representatives
attending. Also presented at this Fair
was Macedonia as a whole, as the positive
place for investment. The Fair’s organizers
welcomed the Macedonian delegation officially.
On 8 October, in addition to the successful
projects that presented Macedonia,
a cocktail was organized as well, where the
guests could taste the Macedonian wine.
The cocktail was opened by the Deputy
Minister of Local Self-Government, Faruk
Feratoski.
ZELS
Project “B-Integrated Ecological Permits”
Inter-municipal Cooperation
– Necessity in Issuing
B-Integrated Pollution and
Preventive Control Permits
In the first stage of realization of the “B-Integrated Ecological
Permits” Project, ZELS implemented eight trainings
on the procedure of issuing and preparing B-Integrated
Permits, which is under the municipalities’ competence. Due
to the conclusion that certain municipalities do not have defined
capacities to implement this procedure, a special session
was held at which the possible manners of establishing
a mechanism of inter-municipal cooperation in this field was
presented. The team of experts that worked with the representatives
of the municipal administrations, concluded after
the realization of the trainings that about 50 per cent of the
total number of B-Integrated Pollution and Preventive Control
(IPPC) installations are deployed in several municipalities:
Veles, Bitola, Prilep, Kicevo, Kumanovo and the City of
Skopje. In line with the legal regulations referring to human
resources at the national level, the issuance of B-permits
requires employment/appointment of a minimum of 85 persons
in the local administrations (84 municipalities and the
City of Skopje). Under the current conditions, this requirement
poses a serious burden on most of the municipal administrations.
At the same time, it is frequently the case that
an employed person in charge of IPPC also performs various
other tasks that are not in direct relation to the IPPC. This
problem results in an inappropriate administrative treatment
of the issues related to B- Integrated Permits. From the aspect
of inappropriate human resources appointment, particularly
in the municipalities with a small or medium number of
installations (two to five), there is no IPPC-designated official
or an officer is designated but is also burdened with other
tasks. This category of municipalities has an urgent need to
establish cooperation with the municipalities that are in a
Contrary to Government’s
Local Governance Units
Have Twice Bigger Needs
for Waste Containers
In accordance with the Law on Public Hygiene, which came into
force on 22 September 2008, the Government of the Republic
of Macedonia has announced a bid for the procurement of about
22,000 garbage containers, through a procedure that is to be completed
in January next year.
For this purpose, ZELS has estimated gathered and systematized, in
figures, the needs of the local governance units in the country for
garbage containers. At the moment, the municipalities in Macedonia
need about 5,000 plastic and metal containers, the size of 1,100
to 5000 liters. The households in the country need about 34,000
waste bins the size of 80 to 600 liters, and the cities need about
12,000 urban waste bins the size of 80 liters.
For the time being, the local governance units in Macedonia need about
50,000 garbage containers, which is twice more than the figure planned
by the Government to assist the municipalities. The municipalities will
have to purchase the remaining quantities from their own budgets.
more advanced phase of implementing the IPPC regime.
Due to the administrative set-up that includes ten ‘urban’ local
governance units, the City of Skopje is a specific example
of inter-municipal cooperation. The competences regarding
the IPPC regime are located in the city administration. This,
in turn, requires intensification of cooperation with the city
inspectorate in the process of analyzing/processing the B-
permit applications, particularly with regard to control of the
application data. The experts recommended, in the case of
Skopje City, to establish regular, institutionally established, cooperation
between the IPPC unit of the City of Skopje and the
environment units in the municipalities of the City of Skopje.
The process of filing applications with the installations and
the issuance of B-Permits on the part of the municipalities is
of great importance. To illustrate, the installations concerning
the sectors of slaughterhouse, farm and butchery will not be
able to apply for the relevant parts of the IPARD Fund unless
they have a B-Permit. And most of the existing B-IPPC installations
belong to the following sectors: mineral industry, food
processing and intense poultry and ham production farms.