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STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN, CASE PROJECTS ON KOLUBARA MINE BASIN
Abstract
Public Enterprise Elektroprivre da Srbije (EPS - Electric Power Industry of Serbia), the dominant electricity producer in Serbia, is a 100% state-owned public company. The Kolubara Mining Basin (MB Kolubara) with its open cast mines is one of 11 subsidiaries of EPS. In accordance with the Serbian Energy Strategy by 2015, one of the EPS priorities is a modernization and improvement of the efficien cy of EPS' coal mining operations at the Kolubara basin and significantly improvement the quality and uniformity of the lignite it delivers to EPS’ power sta tions. Further to that, EPS and MB Kolubara develop new projects. All of those projects might have some social and environmental influence on the society. As a social responsible companies, r ecognised the communications with the stakeholders as a very important issue, EP S and MB Kolubara prepared the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP). This SEP has been designed to guide current and future stakeholder engagement activities of EPS a nd RB Kolubara in rela tion to the mention projects. Taking into consideration specifics of the above mention projects, this paper dealing with the detail explanation of the pr oposed SEP. Although EPS has no operational responsibilities for stakeholder engagement and resettlement activities (these are the responsibility of MB Kolubara), it liaises with the relevant ministries and has a strategic oversight role. MB Kolubara is responsible for engagement and implementing resettlement at the local level, in cooperation with the m unicipal authorities and it has a direct relationship with the relevant Minist ries. Throughout this SEP, specific reference is therefore made to both EPS and RB Kolubara depending on the competence.
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Constitution of the Republic of Serbia (OG No. 83/06)
The Law on Free Access to Public Information, (OG No. 120/04)
The Law on Environmental Protection (OG No. 134/04 and 36/09)
The Law on Environmental Impact Assessment (OG No. 134/04, 80/05 and 36/09)
The Law on Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment (OG No. 134/04)
The Law on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (OG No. 134/04)
''Arhus Convention'', Convention on access to information, PP in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters. (1998)
SEP - Stakeholder Engagement Plan, www.rbkolubara.rs
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