In the dispute before the Commercial Court regarding the lawsuit filed by the company "BB Hidro" (BBH) against the state, the representative of Montenegro requested additional time yesterday in order to respond to the prosecutor's submission that arrived on June 5, so the preliminary hearing was postponed to July .
The company BBH is asking the state for compensation for damages and lost profits, because they were prevented from building a small hydropower plant (MHP) "Slatina" on the watercourse of the river of the same name in Kolašin, despite the fact that they were issued an energy permit for that.
Lawyer BBH - the company of which he is a co-owner Blazo Djukanovic, the son of the former president Milo Đukanović, she suggested that the plaintiff's representative be heard on the circumstances stated in the lawsuit Ivan Burzanović i Slaven Burzanović, as well as witnesses Bojan i Ljubiša Bošković. She also proposed the expertise of the economic and financial profession, the subject and scope of which will be specified later.
The representative of the state said that since June 5, when the prosecutor submitted the submission, the eight days stipulated by the law had not passed, so she requested an extension of the deadline in order to make a statement. The judge Marija Adzic on that occasion postponed the preliminary hearing to July 7, while giving the defendant eight days to respond to the new files.
The company BBH believes that the state has damaged them because in 2021 the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism (MEPU) rejected their appeal, i.e. confirmed the decision of the urban and construction inspector who stopped the approval procedure for the construction of a small hydroelectric power plant.
In May 2015, "BB Hidro" asked the then Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism to obtain urban planning and technical conditions (UTU) for the construction of MHP. Department, which he managed at the time Branimir Gvozdenović he refused their requests, with the explanation that no hydrological research was done for the watercourse of the river Slatina, with the emphasis that it is necessary to do a location study. At the beginning of 2017, BBH again submitted requests for UTU, which were then issued.
Vlada Duško Marković then made a decision on determining the public interest in the expropriation of real estate for the construction of the MHE "Slatina", which stipulated that the Real Estate Administration expropriate 600 square meters of land owned by old local families in the cadastral municipality of Raško - Mioska and thereby enable the realization of the project.
In December 2020, BBH submitted an application to the urban planning and construction inspection for the construction of "Slatina", after which the inspector stopped the verification process of the submitted construction application with the explanation that the work group is waiting for the completion of the procedure control procedure and the legality of the concluded concession contracts for small hydropower plants formed at the Ministry of Capital Investments.
In May of the same year, MEPPU, which he managed Ratko Mitrović, rejected BBH's appeal and confirmed the urban-building inspector's decision. Government Zdravka Krivokapića gave consent in mid-January 2021 to terminate the approval procedure for the construction of small hydropower plants, including "Slatina".
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