The Environmental Protection Agency did not give consent to the contractor for the ground floor arrangement of the Great Scaffold under Ulcinj's Old Town to the company "Erlang" to dispose of the excavated material on the Suka peninsula, at the place where the "Jadran" hotel used to be.
This is written in the Agency's answer to the questions of "Vijesti".
"Inspecting the list of companies that have been given consent to the waste management plan, it was determined that the company 'Erlang' was not given consent. Also, the mentioned entity did not even submit a request to the Agency for approval of the waste management plan," the Agency's response reads.
As "Vijesti" previously announced, the relevant municipal secretariats did not do that either. In the municipal Secretariat for Communal Affairs, "Vijesti" was told that they met "Erlang" and allowed the passage of trucks through Pristan, but that the department did not issue any permit for waste disposal on Suka.
Article 5 of the Law on Waste Management states that "waste management is carried out in a way that does not create a negative impact on the environment and human health, especially on water, air, soil, plants and animals, in terms of noise and odors, as and to areas of special interest (protected natural and cultural assets)".
Article 28 states that approval of the hazardous waste management plan for amounts exceeding 200 kilograms per year and the non-hazardous waste management plan for amounts exceeding 200 tons per year is given by the administrative body responsible for environmental protection, i.e. Environmental Protection Agency.
The company "Vijesta" was previously told that the landfill on Suka is of a temporary nature and that after the removal of the dumped material, the site will be brought back to its original state at their expense. At the time, "Erlang" did not announce whether they had an official permit for dumping waste on Suka, which is under the authority of the Public Enterprise for the Management of Marine Assets, which invests a million dollar deal on the Velika Skela.
In "Erlang", they claim that already at the very beginning of the works, significant discrepancies between the actual situation on the ground and the prepared project were noted, in the part of the concrete base of the promenade.
"The result of the detected irregularities is the extension of the deadlines, as well as the finding of a new technical solution for the concrete surface of the promenade. Considering that in the new technical solution the mentioned material can be used, our company's proposal was to dispose of the mentioned material at the closest possible location from the construction site. All with the aim of reducing the new unit price of the future position to a minimum, given that the transport of materials, in the circumstances as they are in the field, takes a significant part in the formation of the price, while the deadlines for the execution of future works will be minimal, so as not to interfere with their during the tourist season", they explained in "Erlang" at the time.
In the answer to the questions of "Vijesti", it was written that the proposal was to temporarily dispose of the material at the site of the former hotel "Jadran".
Not even the Public Enterprise for the Management of Marine Assets, which is the investor of the works on the Great Pier, worth almost a million euros in two phases, was directly informed at that time whether permits and consents for depositing materials on Suka had been obtained.
"The contractor's obligation according to the work contract is to remove all excess material and take it to the landfill up to 10 kilometers away, which is intended for this purpose," the JP wrote in a short reply.
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