Decree on the establishment of the Annual Water Status Monitoring Program for 2026.

This Decree establishes the Annual Water Status Monitoring Program of the Republic of Serbia for the year 2026.
Two different types of monitoring are regulated in this text: 1) surveillance monitoring which is a monitoring carried out to ensure a complete overview of the status of waters and to provide information on long-term trends; 2) operational monitoring that is monitoring carried out to establish or confirm the status of those water bodies that have been identified as at risk in terms of the impossibility of meeting the set environmental objectives and to assess any change in the status of these water bodies as a result of the programme of measures. The number and position of measurement profiles on surface waters, the number and position of piezometers and other facilities for measuring the quantity and level of groundwater, the method and number of measurements of the quantity and level of surface waters and groundwater, the method and procedure for testing water quality, the number and conditions under which testing the quality of surface and groundwater is carried out and the content of the report on the determined water quality are all determined by this Program.