Drinking water to get its own law

If wine and beer can have their own laws, and seeing how milk might get one too, it's high time water got regulated as well. Although the field is already regulated by certain laws and bylaws, the question of water for human consumption does not yet have a concrete, itemized solution, Politika writes.

A discussion about the Draft Law on Water for Human Consumption was held at the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia (CCIS) this Thursday, March 15, 2018, and legal solutions were presented and discussed.

– This is the first time that such a law is being prepared in Serbia. The work group, which featured members of the Public Health Institutes of Vojvodina and Nis, the Batut Institute, the Public Health Institute of Belgrade and the Ministry of Health, prepared a draft law on the health safety of the drinking water for the public water supply and the health safety and quality of water in original packaging. This is very important, as our legal framework regulates water for human consumption through two laws – the Law on Food Safety and the Law on Waters – in two different ways. The question of water is also regulated by certain bylaws, among other by the Decree on the manner of preparation and adoption of technical regulations and running a register of those regulations. This treats water as a technical device, like a TV set, and not as something for human consumption – said Zvonko Platisa, independent adviser at the Ministry of Health and the president of the work group which prepared the Draft Law on Water.

He noted that, as an EU candidate, Serbia had an obligation to harmonize its legal framework with the laws of the European Union, including the field of water, the Belgrade-based newspaper writes.

Ministarstvo zdravlja Republike Srbije

Institut za javno zdravlje Vojvodine

Institut za javno zdravlje Srbije Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut Beograd

Gradski zavod za javno zdravlje Beograd

Privredna komora Srbije

CCIS

Draft Law on Water for Human Consumption

law on water for human consumption

water for human consumption

drinking water safety

public water supply

drinking water

tap water

Law on Food Safety

Law on Waters

Decree on the manner of preparation and adoption of technical regulations and running a register of the regulations

Zvonko Platisa