The Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism announced today that the Regulation on the termination of the validity of the Regulation on entrusting part of the work of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism to the Capital City of Podgorica, as well as the Regulation on entrusting part of the work of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism to local self-government units, should enable better control over the implementation of plans and the preparation of technical documentation, with the aim of protecting the space from degradation and reversing the trends of deterioration in the living conditions of the inhabitants, especially in urban areas.
They said that the government department, after a detailed review of personnel capacities and scope of work of the secretariat for urban planning of local self-governments, planned in the near future, in agreement with local self-governments, will review the possibility of re-entrusting part of the work, in accordance with the established optimum.
"By the Decree on the termination of validity of the Decree on entrusting part of the work of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism to the Capital City of Podgorica, the Decree on entrusting part of the work of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism to the Capital City of Podgorica ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", number 116/20), which of the state administration under the competence of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, which refer to the approval of the conceptual solution for buildings with a gross construction area of 3000 m2 and more from Article 88 paragraph 2 of the Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction entrusted to the Capital City of Podgorica (Article 1 of the Regulation). in this way, these tasks are returned to the scope of the Chief State Architect, while the tasks related to the approval of the conceptual solution for buildings with a gross construction area of up to 3000 m2 remain in the scope of the Chief City Architect of Podgorica. local self-governments must be equal, but above all with concern for the quality of architectural solutions of larger buildings, especially residential buildings, whose uniform aesthetics, derived from extremely utilitarian functional solutions, has extremely negative consequences for the urban morphology of Podgorica", the ministry states.
They said that the reason for the termination of the Regulation on entrusting part of the work of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism to local self-government units lies in the fact that the issuance of urban-technical conditions represents the final step in spatial planning.
"Given that according to Article 21 of the Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Buildings, the preparation and adoption of planning documents are under the competence of the Ministry, and that, according to Article 74 of the Law, the Ministry is also responsible for issuing urban planning and technical conditions, this kind of decision has a lot legal foundation. The proposed Regulation should enable better control over the implementation of plans and the preparation of technical documentation, with the aim of protecting the area from degradation and reversing trends in the deterioration of the living conditions of residents, especially in urban areas. After a detailed review of the personnel capacities and the scope of work of the secretariat for urban planning of local self-governments , planned in the near future, the Ministry, in agreement with the local self-governments, will review the possibility of re-entrusting part of the work, in accordance with the established optimum," the announcement states.
The ministry notes that before adoption, both decrees were submitted for opinion to the Secretariat for Legislation, the Ministry of Public Administration, Digital Society and Media and the Office for European Integration, and that none of those institutions had any objections to them.
"We especially want to point out that the passing of the aforementioned decrees will in no way jeopardize the ability of space users to exercise their rights within the time limit provided by law and that the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism will carry out all the tasks undertaken in connection with the approval of conceptual solutions and the issuance of urban planning - technical conditions to perform professionally and up-to-date, striving to establish a highly professional and cooperative relationship with all local self-governments," the announcement concludes.
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