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European
Green Party
7th COUNCIL MEETING
Vienna, 12-14th October 2007
Adopted resolution
Stop the plans for a regional waste disposal centre in sensitive
nature region in Dalmatia, Croatia Background Plans to establish
a Regional Waste Center in the community of Lecevica in the Dalmatia
region of Croatia have met with fierce opposition from the local
population. For seven years now, all kind of public and legal actions
have been undertaken. This case shows great neglect of the environment,
good governance, respect of law and implementation of agreements
with the European Union and other European institutions. After a
long struggle in Croatia the spokespersons of the concerned environmental
and communal groups and institutions feel obliged to call upon the
European institutions to make proper investigations and stop their
support for this project.
The Council of the European Green Party, meeting in Vienna:
Considering:
• the status of the Republic of Croatia as an applicant country
to the European Union
• the agreement between the European Union and Croatia on the protection
of karst areas and underground waters
• the approval of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
of 1.8 million Euro for the envisaged Waste Disposal Centre
• the legal documents of the Republic of Croatia such as: the Strategy
on Disposal of Waste, the Act on the Protection of Nature, the Act
on Protection of Waters, the Act on Waste, the Act on Local Self-Government,
the Act on the Protection of Speleological Caves
• the absence of legally necessary decisions according to Croatian
law concerning investigations and planning
of a Regional Waste Disposal Centre in the community of Lecevica
• the still pending case at the Constitutional Court of Croatia
concerning the procedural legality of the County Area Plan
• that the area in question is a highly sensitive karst region,
causing absence of a surface hydrologic network,
• that it is an important region of underground waters for four
rivers, making the area a strategic water reserve
• that it is an seismic active region
• that the environmental investigation was not only carried out
without the approval of the local community which Croatian law requires
but even against the specific forbiddance of those investigations
by the local community (3rd of October 2000)
• that the above mentioned investigation was not carried out in
full as was foreseen in the specifications of this research
• the outcome of the scientific symposium on the disposing of wast
in Dalmatian Hinterland, 7th of May 2005 calls upon the European
Commission, the European Parliament, the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development and other interested European institutions:
• to immediately withold its support for this project
• to carry out a full investigation concerning all aspects of this
project such as protection of the environment and precautionary
principle, good governance, respect of law as well as the possible
misuse of allocated funds
www.europeangreens.org/cms/default/dokbin/201/201692.stop_the_plans_for_a_regional_waste_disp@en.pdf
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