The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property issued a building permit to the Transport Administration on March 21st for the reconstruction of the Đurđevića Tara bridge. The permit was needed so that the Chinese company Shandong Luqiao Group could begin work on the more than 80-year-old bridge in May.
The Administration submitted a request for this permit at the end of January, while the Ministry requested the removal of deficiencies in the application at the beginning of February. The Traffic Administration told "Vijesti" that they then submitted the necessary documentation on February 12th.
The building permit, which "Vijesti" had access to, also states that the Ministry headed by Slaven Radunović in mid-late February, requested the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Heritage to issue approval for the main project. It is emphasized that according to the Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Facilities, they must obtain evidence, approvals and opinions.
"Since the competent authority did not submit the requested evidence within the legally established period of 15 days from the date of receipt of the request for submission of the requested evidence, the conditions for the application of Article 181, paragraph 6 of the Law have been met, i.e. it is considered that they are in accordance with the revised main design," the Ministry's explanation states.
The deadline for these works is eight months, with no work during the winter. The bridge renovation is being carried out with a donation provided by the People's Republic of China, which signed an Agreement with the Government of Montenegro in 2018 regarding the reconstruction of the Đurđevića Tara bridge, and the legal basis for the start of the project is the conclusion of a grant agreement signed in December 2020. The agreement has the character of an intergovernmental agreement between the two governments. It defines that China will select a contractor, and that country will donate 7,05 million for the reconstruction.
The document also states that the permit was issued in accordance with the Spatial Urban Plans (SUP) of the Municipalities of Pljevlja and Žabljak, and that the investor is obliged, upon receipt, to display a sign at the construction site with information about the designer, contractor, investor, professional supervision, and authorized engineer.
"The reconstruction work on the Tara bridge will be carried out according to the main project prepared by Professor Radenko Pejović, a graduate civil engineer and the companies “Institute for Civil Engineering, “Via ing”, “Geo max group” and “Paming”. The audit of the main project “rehabilitation and reconstruction of the bridge near the village of Budečevica and access roads to the bridge”, was carried out by the auditor who led the audit of the technical documentation Radivoje Mrdak and the Commission for auditing technical documentation," the document states.
Supervision of the works will be carried out by the Podgorica-based company "Construction Supervision and Laboratory Testing".
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