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Water Law.

Country
Serbia
Type of law
Legislation
Date of original text
Date of latest amendment
Source
FAO , FAOLEX
Abstract
This Law hereby prescribes various provisions aimed to define the legal status of waters on the territory of the Republic of Serbia, defines the integrated water management approach, rules regarding the management of water facilities and water land, resources and financing of water activities, sustainable use of water resources, supervision, rules related to the surface water and groundwater including thermal and mineral waters, except groundwater from which useful mineral raw materials and geothermal energy is obtained.
The Law is divided into 12 Chapters and 68 articles, including offences and related penalties. Chapters are the following: Basic principles (I); Water assets (II); Water facilities (III); Integrated water management (IV); Water Acts and documents (V); Prohibition, restriction of rights and obligations for owners and users of water land and water facilities (VI); Other subjects of water management (VII); Information and water information system (VIII); Funding of water management (IX); Supervisions (X); Penalty provisions (XI); Transitional and final provisions (XII).
Attached files
http://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/srb155330consolidated.pdf
http://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/srb155330.pdf
Web site
http://www.pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force eight days after its publication in the Official Gazette, except for the provisions contained in articles 150-195 which will enter into force on 1 January 2011.
Notes
Consolidated version
Repealed
No
Publication reference
Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia 30/2010-95/2018
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
Zakon o vodama.
Amended by
Law amending the Water Law.
Law amending the Water Law.
Law amending the Water Law.
Implemented by
Decree on the Establishment of the Water Management Program for 2025.
Decree establishing the Water Management Programme in 2023.
Order on establishing the Operational Plan for flood defense for 2023.
Decree establishing the Annual Water Status Monitoring Programme for 2022.
Decree establishing the Water Management Programme in 2022.
Order establishing the Operational Plan for flood defense for 2022.
Regulation determining the river sediment extraction plan.
Action plan for the implementation of the Water Management Strategy on the territory of the Republic of Serbia for the period from 2021 to 2023.
Decree on the establishment of the Water Management Program in 2021.
Regulation determining the Annual Water Status Monitoring Programme for 2020.
Regulation establishing the Water Management Programme for 2020.
Regulation determining the Operational Plan for Flood Defense for 2020.
Regulation determining the plan for extraction of river sediments.
Regulation on the content and manner of keeping registers of protected areas.
Regulation on the leasing of public owned water lands.
Regulation on determining the initial amount of rent according to which water land in public ownership can be leased.
Regulation determining the General Plan for flood defense.
Regulation determining melioration areas and their boundaries.
Regulation determining water units and their boundaries.
Regulation determining water area boundaries.
Regulation on content and form of requests for issuing of water acts, on content of opinion for the procedure of issuance, and on content of reports in the procedure necessary for the issuance of water permits.
Regulation on conditions in terms of technical and technological equipment and organizational and personnel qualifications for obtaining the license for carrying out activities of extraction of river deposits, as well as the manner of keeping records on issued and seized licenses.
Regulation determining the cases in which water permit is required.
Regulation defining the methodology for making the map of vulnerability and flood risk.
Regulation determining the criteria for designation of protected water areas.
Regulation on contents of the special water management plan.
Water management strategy of the territory of the Republic of Serbia until 2034.
Regulation on the annual Programme for monitoring over the water status for the year 2016.
Regulation on the manner and conditions for measuring the quantity and testing of wastewater quality and on the content of the report on performed measurements.
Regulation on water fees for 2016.
Regulation on the adoption of the operational plan for flood control (2016).
Regulation on the Programme for Water Management in 2016.
Regulation on the operational plan of flood control for 2016.
Regulation on limit values of priority and priority hazardous substances that pollute the surface waters and deadlines for their achievement.
River basin management plan for the Danube river basin in Serbia.
Regulation on the annual program for monitoring over the water status for the year 2013.
Regulation on limit values of pollutants in surface and groundwater and sediment and on deadlines for their achievement.
Regulation on the conditions in terms of technical-technological equipment and organizational and staff capacity when performing tasks in the field of water management, as well as on the method of keeping records on issued and revoked licenses.
Regulation determining the methodology for making a preliminary flood risk assessment.
Regulation on the parameters of ecological and chemical status of surface waters and parameters of chemical and quantitative status of groundwater.
Regulation on reference conditions for surface water types.
Regulation on emission limit values of pollutants in water and deadlines for achieving them.
Regulation on emission limit values of pollutants in water and deadlines for their achievement.
Regulation on the establishment of the National Conference for water.
Regulation on the content and manner of managing the water information system, methodology, structure, categories and levels of data collection, as well as on the content of data about which the public is informed.
Regulation determining the boundaries of sub-basins.
Regulation on the content and management of water facilities cadastre.
Regulation on contents and manner of keeping the Cadastre of water bodies.
Regulation completing the Regulation on the content and management of water facilities cadastre.
Regulation on determining of surface and groundwater bodies.
Regulation on the content, manner of keeping and form of the water book.
Regulation determining the boundaries of the water areas.
Regulation on the content and form for the issuance of water deeds and content regarding the procedure of issuance of water conditions.
Repeals
Water Law.