Vujičić: Spajić and Mujović are building Podgorica based on 67 planning documents that have ceased to be valid

The Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milojko Spajić, and the Mayor of Podgorica, Saša Mujović, are building the Capital City of Podgorica based on at least 67 planning documents that the Constitutional Court, in Decision U-II No. 24/14, determined to have ceased to be valid upon the expiration of the period for which they were adopted, Božidar Vujičić, a representative of the Budva-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Civic Action, announced today.

"Anyone with time can simply go to the Register of Planning Documents on the website of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property and find 67 planning documents on the basis of which Mayor Mujović charges utilities and the competent services issue documentation for the construction of facilities, which is also done by the competent ministry for larger facilities, contrary to the final and enforceable decision of the Constitutional Court, by which the court determined that these 67 planning documents ceased to be valid upon the expiration of the period for which they were adopted and published in the Official Gazette," Vujičić pointed out in a statement.

He added that "expired plans that cannot produce legal effect are being used without legal basis by the Prime Minister of Montenegro and the Mayor of the Capital City, only by the will of a former minister, Mr. Gvozdenović, from whose office a professional instruction was sent in 2014 that the plans remain valid until new ones are adopted."

"I call on the representatives of the EU Delegation to Montenegro to check these allegations, so that they know how Montenegro respects the final and enforceable decisions of the Constitutional Court, how it cares about space, about the rights of citizens to spatial planning, about the protection of space, etc. Mr. Spajić and Mr. Mujović, you should be ashamed if you are aware of these facts, and if you are not familiar with the facts, you must urgently stop the practice of creating rights without a legal basis, that is, from wrongdoing," Vujičić stated.