Serbia, Amendments to the Law on Planning and Construction

Published on 20. February 2023., News

The curve of the construction industry growth trend in Serbia has begun to flatten, and the amendments to the Law on Planning and Construction aim to prevent this from happening and to continue growth, it was announced today at the last in a series of public hearings on this draft. The State Secretary of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Aleksandra Damnjanović, said that the aim of the amendments is to further improve as much as possible and maintain the growth trend in construction in Serbia.

She stated that there are now 120,000 active construction sites in Serbia, and that 2019 was a record year in terms of issued building permits, and added that as a result, construction directly drives the growth of another 22 economic branches.

She added that the goals of amending the law are monitoring world trends in materials and methods of work, eliminating conflicting provisions with other regulations, creating conditions for legal construction, preventive action on new illegal construction, monitoring changes in space and timely response, and further decentralization of administration.

She said that changes to this system law will result in changes to other laws as well, and that all by-laws will be adopted within 60 days.

This is the 11th amendment to the law from 2009, and Damnjanović pointed out that the proposed solutions regulate the relationship between construction and protected cultural and natural assets in a modern way.

These changes include the abolition of the conversion of construction land, as well as the law on linear infrastructure.

She pointed out that the introduction of conversion will not include agricultural and housing cooperatives, social enterprises, sports clubs and associations, as well as everything related to succession agreements.

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