The process of self-monitoring of the healthiness of water for human use is not only not monopolistically assigned to the Institute for Public Health (IJZ), but on the contrary - it is made possible for all laboratories that meet the conditions stipulated by law, and "Vodovod" Pljevlja not only violated a number of legal regulations, but has to a certain extent endangered the health of the inhabitants of the municipality of Pljevlja by assigning the tasks of self-control of water for human use to an institution that does not have the appropriate authority for it.
This was stated by the IJZ in the clarification of the text "The government says that they do not have a monopoly", which states the government's decision to propose to the Constitutional Court to reject the initiative for the review of the constitutionality of the provisions of the Law on the provision of sanitary water for human use, which was submitted by the Pljeval company Vodovod.
With this initiative, the company believes that the Law gave the Public Health Institute a monopoly position for the analysis of water samples and excluded all other laboratories that meet international standards and have certificates.
"The process of monitoring drinking water, which is defined by the Law on provision of health-safe water for human use, referred to as "Vodovod" Pljevlja, represents a special public health procedure that differs and must not be equated with regular monitoring and provision of health-safe water, the so-called self control.
In accordance with the Drinking Water Directive, EU states are obliged to ensure regular monitoring of the quality of water for drinking and human use.
In order to fulfill the provisions of the Directive as well as the monitoring requirements defined in it, competent authorities (in the specific case the Ministry of Health) must establish appropriate monitoring programs and ensure that the quality of analyzes is at the highest possible level within the framework of the public health system.
Therefore, the Law foresees that the monitoring process is carried out in the laboratories of the IJZ, as the only national reference laboratories and the only public health microbiological laboratories at the tertiary level of health care.
Unlike monitoring, the process of self-control is carried out by a laboratory of a health institution or other legal entity that owns a water testing laboratory, accredited and authorized by the Ministry of Health.
The laboratory of the Institute of Public Health in Užice does not have the conditions stipulated by law.
Calling for an examination of the constitutionality of the provisions of the Act is nothing more than diverting attention from the specific problem and an attempt to protect the business relations of "Vodovod" and the Institute for Public Health in Užice".
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