Stakeholders
Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of Republic Serbia
Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning deals with governmental and vocational issues, such as: system for natural resources protection and sustainable use, development of strategic documents, plans and research programs in the field of sustainable use of natural resources; provision of material and other requirements for realization of those programs; system for environmental protection and improvement; basic activities related to the environmnental protection; nature protection; establishment and implementation of the protection of natural complexes of relevance for Republic Serbia; approval of international traffic of endangered plant and animal species; official supervision in the field of sustainable use of natural resources, environmental protection and other relevant fields; envrionmental supervision on borders, as well as other activities determined by law.
One of the main aims of the Ministry is also sturgeon species protection and sustainable exploitation of their populations within the territory of Republic Serbia. Within this field, beside the national legislation, Ministry also implements stipulations of the international documents, regarding sturgeon protection especially the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES). Within the Ministry, there is the Department for nature and biodiversity protection, which works on fishery related issues, as well as on the implementation of CITES.
Contact
Address: Nemanjina 11, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 3617 717
Fax: +381 (0)11 3617 722
E-mail: info@ekoplan.gov.rs
URL: http://www.ekoplan.gov.rsInstitute for Nature Protection of Serbia
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inititation of protective procedures, development of the scientific basis for natural values protection (data gathering and processing, area boundaries establishment, natural values valorization, provision of protective measures and protected area categories);
- conducting research and biodiversity and geodiversity assessment as a starting point for protection and improvement of endangered and rare plant and animal species and geological heritage objects;
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expert supervision and monitoring of the state of protected areas and conduction of active and passive protective measures, with provision of expert help and cooperation establishment with protected area managers;
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international cooperation through networking and data exchange, work on international conventions implementation and participation in international programs and projects;
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publishing activities, museum activities, database development and environmental impact assessment for urbanistic, forestry, water management and fishery plans, as well as for other documentation.
Head office of the Institute is in Belgrade, with local offices in Novi Sad and Niš; local office in Priština is not currently in function.
Contact
Address: Dr Ivana Ribara 91, 11070 New Belgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 2093 801; +381 (0)11 2093 802
Fax: +381 (0)11 2093 867
E-mail: beograd@zzps.rs
URL: http://www.zzps.rs
(Contact person for sturgeon protection issues - M.Sc. Nenad Sekulić)
Serbian Environmental Protection Agency
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Development, regulation and maintenance of the national information system for the environmental protection (monitoring parameters of the state of the environment, pollutants registry, etc.);
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Environmental data acquisition, centralization and processing, reporting about the state of the environment and policy implementation in the field of environmental protection;
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Development of the procedures for environmental data processing and evaluation;
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Management of the information about the best available techniques and practices and their implementation in the field of environmental protection;
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Cooperation with the European Environmental Agency (EEA) and European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET), as well as other objectives defined by law.
Contact
Address: Ruže Jovanovića 27a, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 2861 080
E-mail: office@sepa.gov.rs
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republic Serbia
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republic Serbia conducts agricultural husbandry registration. Only registered agricultural husbandries can use resources designated for grants, subventions and crediting, which are financed from the national budget, as well as services of governmental advisory services. Enrolling in the Registry of agricultural husbandries can be conducted by persons, agricultural enterprises, agricultural cooperatives, other subjects that are authorized for agricultural production and scientific and research organizations working on agricultural issues. Review of data from the Registry is officialy conducted by the agricultural inspection.
Beside fields, orchards and pastures, other types of terrain that are usable for agricultural production can be also considered as agricultural land, such as fish ponds, reeds, and swamps. Agricultural husbandry must have at least 0.5 ares, but areas designated for fish production can be smaller.
Republic Directorate for Waters, located within the Ministry, is responsible for all water protection and utilization related issues.
Ministry also works on the agricultural development strategy and related programs and plans within the Ministry, provision of subventions, grants and credits, and on the establishment of agricultural stations network and development of the knowledge and experiences that will most efficiently reach producers.
Contact
Address: Nemanjina 22-26, 11000 Bеlgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 361 6580; +381 (0)11 363 1878
Fax: +381 (0)11 361 6285
E-mail: office@minpolj.gov.rs
URL: http://www.minpolj.gov.rsThe National Park “Djerdap”
The National Park "Djerdap" is the longest composite valley and the biggest and the oldest water breakthrough in Europe, including three gorges, two canyons, and three valleys, as well as the biggest, oldest and the best preserved refuge with the relict flora, fauna and vegetation. About 9% of the surface of the National Park, i.e. 5500 ha, accounts for the area along the Danube River. This makes the National Park "Djerdap" also a riverine national park. National Park was declared in 1974 and it stretches along the right bank of the Danube, for about 100 km, from the Golubac to Karatas near the Kladovo, covering a narrow strip of forested hills, about 2-8 km wide.
Directorate of the National Park is also responsible for the regulation and implementation of complete fish fauna protection on the National park territory and, due to their importance, protection of strugeon species has a special place in protective measures. National park also has a management authorization for one part of the fishery district "Danube III" (Park shares it with Public Enterprises "Srbijašume" and "Vojvodinašume").
Contact
Address: Kralja Petra I 14a, 19220 Donji Milanovac, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)30 590 788; +381 (0)30 590 778
E-mail: office@npdjerdap.org
"Hydroeletric Power Stations Djerdap" d.o.o. Kladovo
During the period 1964-1985, two large hydroelectric power stations were constructed in the Djerdap gorge, "Djerdap I" and "Djerdap II". Dams were built in cooperation with Romania, and they are today a part of the Economic enterprise "Hydroelectric Power Stations Djerdap" d.o.o. Kladovo, which is a part of the Public Enterprise "Electrical Industry of Serbia".
Construction of the "Djerdap I" dam started in 1964, and the whole system became operational in 1972. As in the case of "Djerdap II" dam, it was built together with neighbouring Romania, based on the principle of equal participation in the construction and exploitation. Main structure of the "Djerdap I" complex is symmetrical, with the water overflow in the middle of the river course, and with one power station and a ship lock on each side of the dam. Six power units were installed in each power station, with the total power of 1140 МW. Before construction of the Hydropower and Navigational System "Djerdap", there was Sip channel located upstream. Ship locks are two-staged, 310 m long and 34 m wide.
Construction of the "Djerdap II" dam started in 1977, and first power units became operational in April 1985. Complex consists of power station, ship lock, water overflow and a motorway over the dam. Installed power units have total power of 270 МW. Dams are situated at the 943 ("Djerdap I") and 863 river kilometer ("Djerdap II").
Electric power production within the d.o.o. Kladovo, reaching total value of 7365 GWh, represents 21% of the total electric power production within the Electrical Industry of Serbia, and 67% of the total hydropower potential of Serbia.
Unfortunately, dam construction has hinderede migrations of anadromous sturgeon species to the upstream localities, where they used to spawn. Based on the existing knowledge, this represents one of the main threats for their survival. One of the possible solutions for this problem would be to enable their upstream and downstream passage at dams through the construction of fish passes, fish elevatros, etc. Nowadays, anadromous sturgeon species (beluga, stellate sturgeon and Russian sturgeon) can be caught on the territory of Republic Serbia only downstream from the "Djerdap II" dam, on 17.8 km long river stretch.
Contact
Address: Trg Kralja Petra 1, 19320 Kladovo, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)19 801 131
Fax: +381 (0)19 801 650
E-mail: info@djerdap.rs
Public Enterprise "Srbijašume"
Beside forest management as the main activity of the Public Enterprise "Srbijašume", it also manages fishery waters, conducts their supervision and issues fishing licenses. Enterprise is authorized for the management of fishery districts "Serbia - west", "Serbia - east" and others. According to the "Business Activities Plan for 2006", Enterprise was planning to issue 11,700 fishing licenses in mentioned districts in 2006, of which 520 for commercial fishing and 10,650 for recreational fishing.
Responsible department for all fishery related issues is the Fishery Department, part of the Forestry, Hunting and Environmental Protection Sector.
Contact
Address: Bulevar M. Pupina 113, 11070 New Belgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 311 5037, +381 (0)11 311 5034
E-mail: marketing@srbijasume.rs
(Contact person - Petar Nećak, Administrator of Fishery Department)
Public Enterprise "Vojvodinašume"
As in the case of Public Enterprise "Srbijašume", although the main activity of the Public Enterprise "Vojvodinašume" is forest management, they also manage fishery waters, perform fish and fingerling rearing, conduct supervision of fishery waters and issue fishing licenses in supervised districts. Enterprise is authorized for the management of parts of the fishery district "Serbia - Vojvodina". According to the"Business Activities Plan for 2006", Enterprise was planning to issue 6,680 fishing licenses in mentioned districts in 2006, of which 280 for commercial fishing and 6,400 for recreational fishing.
Contact
Address: Preradovićeva 2, 21131 Petrovaradin, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)21 431 144
Fax: +381 (0)21 6433 139
E-mail: info@vojvodinasume.rs
Institute for Multidisciplinary Research
Institute for Multidisciplinary Research (former Center for Multidisciplinary Studies) is a scientific, research and higher education public establishment, founded by the University of Belgrade and the Parliament of the Republic Serbia in 1970, with the aim to promote research and postgraduate education of young scientists in borderline disciplines and multidisciplinary areas of science and research.
Scientific staff of the Institute is engaged in areas such as biophysics, neurosciences, biomedical engineering, environmental protection, material sciences, surface phenomena and electrochemistry, aritificial intelligence and information technologies. At the same time, the Institute is the institutional coordinator in the organization of postgraduate education (Masters and Doctoral degree) in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary areas defined by the University of Belgrade. Its scientists are engaged, amongst others, in postgraduate teaching, and its laboratories and facilities are also used to provide the necessary experimental setting for a part of the postgraduate students enrolled at such studies.
Sturgeon species research is being conducted at the Department of natural resources and environmental sciences, at the Laboratory for Ichthyological Research. Laboratory for Ichthyological Research team members have participated in significant number of scientific projects related to research and protection of sturgeons, as well as in the development of the Action plan for sturgeon species management in fishery waters of Republic Serbia.
Contact
Address: Kneza Višeslava 1a, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 2078 475; +381 (0)11 2078 477
Fax: +381 (0)11 3055 289
E-mail: lenhardt@ibiss.bg.ac.rs
URL: http://www.imsi.rs
(Contact person: dr Mirjana Lenhardt)
The Faculty of Biology of the Belgrade University
The Faculty of Biology became an independent faculty of the Belgrade University in 1995, but the higher education in the field of biology had been present since 1853. Activities of the Faculty of Biology are organized at the three Institutes: Institute for Zoology, Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry and Institute for Botany, as well as at the Botanical Garden "Jevremovac".
Sturgeon population research has a very significant place within the ongoing ichthyological research at the Faculty of Biology, and it is being mostly conducted at the Department of Animal Morphology, Sistematics and Phylogeny.
Contact
Address: Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 2186 635
Fax: +381 (0)11 2638 500
E-mail: pedja@bio.bg.ac.rs
(Contact person: dr Predrag Simonović)
The Faculty of Agriculture of the Belgrade University
The Faculty of Agriculture, founded in 1919, is a teaching and research institution whose activities cover all spheres of agricultural production and food technology. The Faculty conducts research and professional activities through the basic, applied and developmental investigations, studies and projects, engineering, expertise, consulting, attesting, issuing licenses and certificates.
Fishery and fishery development related research, including sturgeon aquaculture devlopment, is being conducted within the Institute for Animal Science.
Contact
Address: Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)11 2615 315 (loc. 166);
Fax: +381 (0)11 2193 659
E-mail: poleksic@agrif.bg.ac.rs
URL: http://www.agrif.bg.ac.rs
(Contact person: dr Vesna Poleksić)
"Feniks" d.о.о. Negotin
A private sturgeon hatchery was founded in 2003 by the Company "Feniks" from the Negotin. Hatchery is located in Kusjak, not far from the "Djerdap II" dam, and it is currently the only existing sturgeon aquaculture in Serbia. So far, hatchery was used for the rearing of beluga and Russian sturgeon.
Contact
Address: Feniks d.o.o., 19300 Negotin, Serbia
Phone: +381 (0)19 541 980, +381 (0)63 401 419
E-mail: feniksbs@ptt.yu
International Association for Danube Research (IAD)
The International Association for Danube Research (IAD) was founded in 1956 with the goal of promoting and coordinating activities in the fields of limnology, water management and water protection in the Danube River basin. Twelve countries in the Danube basin are currently members of the IAD: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova.
Beside the scientific research, IAD actively disseminates new findings to the general public and works on the environmental awareness improvement. In July 2005, in cooperation with the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Office, IAD organized a workshop meeting where the "Action Plan for the conservation of Sturgeons (Acipenseridae) in the Danube River Basin" was developed. Action plan was later adopted as the official document of the Bern Convention.
Contact
Address: Am Zunderfeld 12, A-4073 Wilhering, Austria
Phone: +43 727 47 888
Fax: +43 727 47 888 4
E-mail: h.kutzenberger@tb-kutzenberger.com
URL: http://www.iad.gs
International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR)
The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River, founded in 1998, works to ensure the sustainable and equitable use of waters and freshwater resources in the Danube River Basin. The work of the ICPDR is based on the Danube River Protection Convention, the major legal instrument for cooperation and transboundary water management in the Danube River Basin.
The ICPDR is formally comprised by the Delegations of all Contracting Parties to the Danube River Protection Convention, but has also established a framework for other organisations to join. The Contracting Parties to the Covention presently are Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and the European Union. ICPDR members are representatives from highest ministerial levels, technical experts and members of the civil society and of the scientific community.
The ICPDR promotes policy agreements and the setting of joint priorities and strategies for improving the state of the Danube and its tributaries. This includes improving the tools used to manage environmental issues in the Danube basin, such as the Accident Emergency Warning System, the Trans-National Monitoring Network for water quality, and the information system for the Danube (Danubis).
Contact
Address: Vienna International Centre, Room D0412, PO Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 260 60 5738
Fax: +43 1 260 60 5895
E-mail: icpdr@unvienna.org
URL: http://www.icpdr.org
Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
The CITES Secretariat is administered by UNEP and is located at Geneva, Switzerland. It is playing a coordinating, advisory and servicing role in the work of the Convention, and it is assisting with communication and monitoring the implementation of the Convention, arranging meetings of the Conference of the Parties and of the permanent Committees, providing assistance in the fields of legislation, enforcement, science and training.
Secretariat intensively cooperates with a number of other organizations, such as the General Secretariat of ICPO-INTERPOL, the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Customs Organization (WCO), etc.
For more information on Convention stipulations, check page "Legislation".
Contact
Address: International Environment House, Chemin des Anemones, CH-1219 Chatelaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)22 917 81 39/40
Fax: +41 (0)22 797 3417
E-mail: info@cites.org
URL: http://www.cites.org
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
The International Union for Conservation of Nature was founded in 1948 with the mission to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership and possibly the world's largest and most important conservation network.
Main Union's activities include development of databases, assessments, guidelines and case studies, monitoring the state of the world's species through the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, convening multi stakeholder events, information dissemination to the general public and environmental awareness improvement, giving policy advice and technical support to governments, UN organizations, international conventions and other groupings, assessing all new sites nominated for natural World Heritage Site listing, contributing technical assistance to prepare national biodiversity strategies and action plans, as well as for drafting environmental laws and natural resource management strategies.
Contact
Address: Rue Mauverney 28, Gland 1196, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (22) 999 0000;
Fax: +41 (22) 999 0002
E-mail: mail@iucn.org
URL: http://www.iucn.org
Danube-Carpathian Programme Office, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-DCPO)
The WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Office is responsible for leading and to a significant extent implementing WWF's efforts to preserve, restore and sustainably manage the natural values of the Danube-Carpathian ecoregions. WWF-DCPO works across political borders through an ecoregional approach based on model projects, influencing policy, networking, capacity building, communication and crisis response. Its head office is in Vienna, local offices in Bucharest, Brasov, Baia Mare and Sofia, and project offices and representatives and partners in Slovakia, Ukraine and Serbia.
Some of the successful projects were the establishment of the “Green Danube Programme”, facilitation of the Lower Danube Green Corridor Agreement signing (member countries are Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova), as well as, in cooperation with International Association for Danube Research (IAD), organization of the work meeting in July 2005 where the "Action Plan for the conservation of Sturgeons (Acipenseridae) in the Danube River Basin" was developed. Action plan was later adopted as the official document of the Bern Convention.
Contact
Address: Mariahilfer Strasse 88a/3/9, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 524 54 7020;
Fax: +43 1 524 54 707
E-mail: abeckmann@wwfdcp.org (Andreas Beckmann, Programme Director)
"Danube Delta" National Institute (DDNI)
The “Danube Delta” National Institute for Research and Development, located in Tulcea, Romania, was established with the aim to conduct the basic and applied research within the field of ecology and environmental protection in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (DDBR), as well as in other wetlands of national and international importance for the biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Research areas include biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, sustainable use of the natural resources, recovery of some threatened species populations, ecological restoration, GIS development, etc.
Research related to sturgeon populations and work on their protection and recovery represents one of the main activities of the Institute. These research activities are being conducted at the Ecological Restoration Department.
Contact
Address: Babadag Street 165, 820112 Tulcea, Romania
Phone: +40 240 531 520;
Fax: +40 240 533 547
E-mail: office@indd.tim.ro(Contact person: dr Radu Suciu)
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