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THE COUNTRY: PUBLIC GOODS<br />
ues of suspended particles<br />
PM10 and PM2.5 in urban<br />
zones in Pljevlja, Nikšić, and<br />
Podgorica. According to scientific<br />
presumptions, other municipalities<br />
in central and<br />
northern region of Montenegro<br />
have the same or similar<br />
problem. Precisely in that part<br />
it is important to improve<br />
monitoring through a national<br />
network of automatic stances,<br />
in order to react appropriately<br />
and protect health and quality<br />
of environment. The national<br />
strategy for management of<br />
air quality, which was created<br />
by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourismin cooperation with the Agency for Environmental<br />
Protection, had to deal quite more with the concrete measures and include more institutions<br />
in the part on overtaking of responsibilities for needed measures and planned activities.<br />
When it comes to waste disposal, both municipal and industrial, the current disastrous situation<br />
in which only two regional sanitary waste dumps exist in Podgorica and Bar, whose capacities<br />
were used faster than was initially planned, is one more proof of the lack of serious and systematic<br />
approach to this problem and consequences that uncontrolled waste disposal has on the<br />
environment and public health.<br />
The national plan for waste disposal that should offer the road map for the creation of an adequate<br />
system, respecting the high recycling goals set by the EU, did not meet expectations.<br />
Citizens do not participate in decision-making processes<br />
Photo: www.ozon.org.me<br />
Uncontrolled waste disposal at the landfill in Šavnik – waste disposal in<br />
the river Bijela<br />
One of the important segments of public policies in the environmental area that needs significant improvement,<br />
is implementation of the three pillars of the Aarhus Convention, which guarantee the right<br />
to adequate and timely information, participation in decision-making processes from the environmental<br />
area and right to legal protection in cases of rights abuse. At the moment, good communication between<br />
the Agency for Environmental Protection and an interested public does not exist, because data that<br />
should be public are not at the disposal of nongovernmental organizations that are dealing with the environment<br />
and that are trying to contribute to improvement of the current situation.<br />
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