Environmental Impact Assessment to Be Done for Construction of Gas Pipeline to Hungary

The Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure has adopted the decision on the preparation of the strategic environmental impact assessment of the spatial plan of the special-purpose area of the two-way main gas pipeline Nis-Batajnica-Horgos-Hungarian border with elements of detailed regulation.

The rough area covered by the Spatial Plan encompasses parts of the territories of the cities of Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad and the municipalities of Ada, Aleksinac, Batocina, Becej, Varvarin, Velika Plana, Zabalj, Indjija, Jagodina, Kanjiza, Lapovo, Paracin, Razanj, Senta, Smederevska Palanka, Svilajnac, Stara Pazova, Titel, Cicevac and Cuprija.

The deadline for the preparation of the strategic assessment is 12 months.

– The expert team for the preparation of the Strategic Assessment will consist of experts of a suitable profile. The strategic assessment is done in line with European and international principles of theory and good practice in the preparation of the strategic environmental impact assessments for the same kind of planning documents – the decision says.

The funds for the preparation of the Strategic Assessment will be secured by the PE Srbijagas.

Ministarstvo građevinarstva, saobraćaja i infrastrukture Republike Srbije

JP Srbijagas Novi Sad

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strategic environmental impact assessment of the spatial plan of the special purpose are of the two way main gas pipeline

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