Teams of the Montenegrin Electric Distribution System (CEDIS) and subcontractors, with the assistance of the police, entered the private plots of land in Bjelasica, at the location Kolašin 1450, yesterday, in order to identify where the cables were broken and start repairing the fault."
"Vijesti" has learned from sources who are familiar with this problem that there is no estimate for when these works will be completed.
On the private plot 904/47, at the beginning of November, cable lines of voltage levels 35 kV and 10 kV were broken, as a result of which the state ski resort Kolašin 1600, a private hotel in the immediate vicinity, and the Radio Broadcasting Center and facilities of the Black Army were without electricity for weeks. Up on Rabbit's Head, as well as the Gorge Tunnel. The owners of the plot claim that the installations were damaged during preparatory construction work, and they neither knew the number of lines nor the place where they were buried on their land.
The police, who yesterday secured the works of CEDIS and subcontractors, unofficially said that they were doing so based on the Government's conclusion from December 2. With that act, the Government tasked the Administration for Capital Projects to, in cooperation with CEDIS, find a technical solution for the rehabilitation of damaged cable lines as soon as possible. The police administration was tasked with providing help and assistance to CEDIS in repairing the malfunction.
Diletantism
Plot owners and their lawyers have announced that they will file criminal charges against all persons who participated in entering the plot yesterday, including the elders and policemen of the Kolašin security department (OB). They called the actions of CEDIS and the police, as well as the Government's conclusion, "dilettantism".
The owners of the plot have not allowed the CEDIS teams to repair the defect until now. They asked the state for a written guarantee that the expropriation will be carried out before the repair of the defect begins.
Srđa Anđelić, one of the owners said that he perceives what was done as legal violence, arrogance and irresponsible behavior of the state.
"For weeks, the state has not shown any intention to solve this problem in a law-based way. We only asked the state to give us a written guarantee before the end of the legal procedures regarding the expropriation that the process will indeed be completed within a certain period, which they determine. The Kolašin court has not yet decided on CEDIS's proposal for a temporary measure, which would allow them to enter the plots and eliminate the defect. We said that we will respect the decision of the Kolasin Basic Court. You saw what happened, today we were not allowed to approach our plot, and the police did not show us the document on the basis of which they acted like that," Anđelić told Vijest.
A statement similar to his was given by several representatives of the other co-owners of the land where the accident occurred. They repeat that they were never shown the documentation on the basis of which the lines were buried in their plot, and they claim that they were moved from other private plots during the construction of one of the hotels in the immediate vicinity.
"At the hearing held according to the proposal for a temporary measure, the representatives of CEDIS did not have any paper for those cables, so no legal act on laying the cables on the route, as well as proof that the technical acceptance of the transmission line was carried out. The court gave them five days to submit that documentation," Anđelić said.
The owners of the plot say that they are in favor of resolving the dispute and that they repeated this several times at meetings in one of the government departments. They claim that they have always shown good will to solve the problem, but as they explain, "numerous failures of the state, laziness and inaction have led to this".
"We ask if this is the way the government will solve problems. Express conclusions and arbitrariness? Is this how they will solve the problem of the road, that is, the approach to the Jezerine transformer station (TS). Will they get to that building by force and through our property, given that they "closed" two approaches to that building, one by building a garage, and the other by the fact that those plots are now the private property of one of the investors in Bjelasica", say the owners. .
They claim that they have not received the Government's conclusion, nor has anyone informed them that, as they say, "an arbitrary invasion of their property will take place."
Request for property valuation
In conclusion, a few days ago, the government tasked, among other things, the Administration for Capital Projects to submit to the Administration for Real Estate a request for the preparation of an assessment of the value of the property, which was the subject of the Decision on determining the public interest in the expropriation of immovable property.
"The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property is tasked with preparing and submitting to the Government changes to the Decision on determining public interest in the expropriation of immovable property for the purpose of building a road from the roundabout to the substation TS 35/10kV Kolašin 1450-1600. The Administration for Capital Projects, as a beneficiary, upon receipt of the Decision, is tasked with initiating the expropriation procedure at the Real Estate Administration - Regional Unit Kolašin," it says, among other things, in the Government's conclusion.
At the first hearing where a decision was taken on CEDIS's proposal on a temporary measure, the judge of the Basic Court in Kolašin Mirjana Čepić Among other things, she tasked an expert from the geodetic profession to determine the position where the damage to the lines occurred, and an expert from the electrical profession to determine who is the owner of the cables and whether they were placed on the route, for which there is project documentation...
CEDIS is obliged to submit, within five days, for the purposes of expert examination, a legal document from which it is determined that it is authorized to maintain the cables, that is, the transmission line of which they are an integral part. Čepić also obliged that company to submit complete project documentation related to the transmission line or any legal act on the installation of cables on the route, as well as proof that the technical acceptance of the transmission line was carried out.
The expropriation has been under negotiation with the owners of the plots, where the electric lines were torn out, for two weeks already by several government departments. The last meeting on that topic was held on Monday, December 2, in the premises of the Ministry of Spatial Planning. According to the minutes of that meeting, which "Vijesti" had access to, the estimated value of the property to be bought from a private person in Bjelasica is 205 euros per square meter.
The state is preparing to expropriate more plots
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", the state is preparing to expropriate, in addition to parts of Popović's and Anđelić's plots, parts of three more, one of which is owned by the MN group, and the rest are owned by Ski resort Kolašin 1450. According to the information, the reason for this is " Vijesti", the fact that currently CEDIS cannot reach TS Jezerina, because the access to that facility is interrupted by a garage, which is being built by the state. The total value of the expropriation, according to the price of 205 euros per square meter, should be close to 400.000 euros.
About 230 meters of cables on private plots are allegedly still the property of the Capital Projects Administration, i.e. the Ministry of Finance.
As they unofficially told "Vijesta" in CEDIS, at the end of 2020, when the company purchased the Jezerine substation, it also purchased the 230-meter long line, which was interrupted. Allegedly, proper documentation (construction and use permit, geodetic survey of the cable...) was not submitted for that part of the infrastructure.
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