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Water Law.

Country/Territory
Serbia
Document type
Legislation
Date
2010 (2018)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Framework law Basic legislation Data collection/reporting Financing Freshwater resources management Inland waters Inspection Integrated management Monitoring Offences/penalties Sustainable use Water abstraction Water rights Water supply Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Basin/catchment/watershed
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force eight days after its publication in the Official Gazette, except for the provisions contained in articles 150-195 which will enter into force on 1 January 2011.
Abstract

This Law hereby prescribes various provisions aimed to define the legal status of waters on the territory of the Republic of Serbia, defines the integrated water management approach, rules regarding the management of water facilities and water land, resources and financing of water activities, sustainable use of water resources, supervision, rules related to the surface water and groundwater including thermal and mineral waters, except groundwater from which useful mineral raw materials and geothermal energy is obtained.

Full text
Serbian
Website
www.pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs

References - Legislation

Repeals

Water Law.

Legislation | Serbia | 1991 (1996)

Keyword: Mineral water, Framework law, Basic legislation, Freshwater resources management, Authorization/permit, Hazards, Effluent waste water/discharge, Flood, Freshwater pollution, Groundwater, Industrial water use, Institution, Offences/penalties, Potable water, Surface water, Thermal and medicinal waters, Water rights, Water supply, Pollution control

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Implemented by

River basin management plan for the Danube river basin in Serbia.

Legislation | Serbia | 2014

Keyword: Basin/catchment/watershed, Policy/planning, Groundwater, Surface water, Sustainable use, Financing, Flood, Pollution control, Potable water, Hydropower generation, Water supply, Navigation, Ecosystem preservation, Classification/declassification, Climate change, Freshwater quality/freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation establishing the Water Management Programme for 2020.

Legislation | Serbia | 2020

Keyword: Policy/planning, Waterworks, Financing, Freshwater resources management, Pollution control, International relations/cooperation, Freshwater quality/freshwater pollution, Drainage/land reclamation, Flood, Irrigation, Water supply, Potable water, Data collection/reporting

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the General Plan for flood defense.

Legislation | Serbia | 2019

Keyword: Flood, Policy/planning, Risk assessment/management, Monitoring, Waterworks, Wetlands

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the plan for extraction of river sediments.

Legislation | Serbia | 2019

Keyword: Bed, Policy/planning, Flood, Ecosystem preservation

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the Operational Plan for Flood Defense for 2020.

Legislation | Serbia | 2019

Keyword: Flood, Policy/planning, Waterworks, Risk assessment/management, Disasters

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the annual program for monitoring over the water status for the year 2013.

Legislation | Serbia | 2013

Keyword: Policy/planning, Access-to-information, Basin/catchment/watershed, Data collection/reporting, Ecosystem preservation, Flood, Freshwater resources management, Monitoring, Potable water, Standards, Waterworks, Inland waters

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the content and management of water facilities cadastre.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Registration, Water abstraction, Waterworks, Data collection/reporting

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on emission limit values of pollutants in water and deadlines for achieving them.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Effluent waste water/discharge, Waste disposal, Waste domestic sources, Pollution control, Sewerage, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the boundaries of the water areas.

Legislation | Serbia | 2010

Keyword: Zoning, Classification/declassification, Governance

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the establishment of the National Conference for water.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Institution, Public participation, Monitoring, Policy/planning

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on limit values of priority and priority hazardous substances that pollute the surface waters and deadlines for their achievement.

Legislation | Serbia | 2014

Keyword: Effluent waste water/discharge, Surface water, Pollution control, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Classification/declassification, Hazardous substances, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the conditions in terms of technical-technological equipment and organizational and staff capacity when performing tasks in the field of water management, as well as on the method of keeping records on issued and revoked licenses.

Legislation | Serbia | 2012

Keyword: Waterworks, Drainage/land reclamation, Irrigation, Education, Procedural matters, Water supply, Public health, Public private partnership (PPP), Authorization/permit, Data collection/reporting

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on emission limit values of pollutants in water and deadlines for their achievement.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011 (2016)

Keyword: Effluent waste water/discharge, Sewerage, Waste domestic sources, Pollution control, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on water fees for 2016.

Legislation | Serbia | 2016

Keyword: Royalties/fees, Liability/compensation, Water charges, Drainage/land reclamation, Effluent waste water/discharge, Pollution control, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the Programme for Water Management in 2016.

Legislation | Serbia | 2016

Keyword: Water supply, Policy/planning, Waterworks, Flood, Financing

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the adoption of the operational plan for flood control (2016).

Legislation | Serbia | 2016

Keyword: Flood, Policy/planning

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the operational plan of flood control for 2016.

Legislation | Serbia | 2016

Keyword: Flood, Policy/planning

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the annual Programme for monitoring over the water status for the year 2016.

Legislation | Serbia | 2016

Keyword: Policy/planning, Water quality standards, Water supply, Waterworks, Monitoring

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation completing the Regulation on the content and management of water facilities cadastre.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Registration, Water abstraction, Waterworks, Data collection/reporting

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the content and form for the issuance of water deeds and content regarding the procedure of issuance of water conditions.

Legislation | Serbia | 2010

Keyword: Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Authorization/permit, Research, Water rights, Governance

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining melioration areas and their boundaries.

Legislation | Serbia | 2018

Keyword: Basin/catchment/watershed, Irrigation, Zoning, Inland waters

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on content and form of requests for issuing of water acts, on content of opinion for the procedure of issuance, and on content of reports in the procedure necessary for the issuance of water permits.

Legislation | Serbia | 2017

Keyword: Authorization/permit, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Research, Water abstraction

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on conditions in terms of technical and technological equipment and organizational and personnel qualifications for obtaining the license for carrying out activities of extraction of river deposits, as well as the manner of keeping records on issued and seized licenses.

Legislation | Serbia | 2017

Keyword: Minerals, Authorization/permit, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Registration, Data collection/reporting, Education, Governance

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the cases in which water permit is required.

Legislation | Serbia | 2017

Keyword: Water supply, Sewerage, Industrial water use, Authorization/permit, Pollution control, Effluent waste water/discharge, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation defining the methodology for making the map of vulnerability and flood risk.

Legislation | Serbia | 2017

Keyword: Flood, Zoning, Procedural matters, Risk assessment/management

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on contents of the special water management plan.

Legislation | Serbia | 2017

Keyword: Policy/planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Surface water, Groundwater, Sustainable use

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining water area boundaries.

Legislation | Serbia | 2017

Keyword: Zoning, Basin/catchment/watershed, Sustainable development, Inland waters

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining water units and their boundaries.

Legislation | Serbia | 2018

Keyword: Zoning, Classification/declassification, Registration, Sustainable development

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the criteria for designation of protected water areas.

Legislation | Serbia | 2017

Keyword: Protected area, Zoning, Procedural matters, Ecosystem preservation, Sustainable development

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the river sediment extraction plan.

Legislation | Serbia | 2021

Keyword: Basin/catchment/watershed, Inland waters, Policy/planning, Freshwater resources management, Ecosystem preservation, Sustainable use

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Decree establishing the Water Management Programme in 2023.

Legislation | Serbia | 2023

Keyword: Hazards, Erosion, Flood, Inland waters, Policy/planning, Freshwater resources management, Water supply, Waterworks

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Order on establishing the Operational Plan for flood defense for 2023.

Legislation | Serbia | 2022

Keyword: Hazards, Drainage/land reclamation, Flood, Inland waters, Policy/planning, Risk assessment/management, Freshwater resources management

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Decree on the establishment of the Water Management Program in 2021.

Legislation | Serbia | 2021 (2021)

Keyword: Erosion, Financing, Irrigation, Drainage/land reclamation, Policy/planning, Potable water, Water abstraction, Freshwater resources management, Water supply, Waterworks

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the Annual Water Status Monitoring Programme for 2020.

Legislation | Serbia | 2020

Keyword: Water abstraction, Monitoring, Groundwater, Surface water, Policy/planning, Data collection/reporting, Water quality standards

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the manner and conditions for measuring the quantity and testing of wastewater quality and on the content of the report on performed measurements.

Legislation | Serbia | 2016

Keyword: Pollution control, Effluent waste water/discharge, Monitoring, Data collection/reporting, Standards, Hazardous substances, Water quality standards, Inspection, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the parameters of ecological and chemical status of surface waters and parameters of chemical and quantitative status of groundwater.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Groundwater, Surface water, Water quality standards, Classification/declassification

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the methodology for making a preliminary flood risk assessment.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Flood, Risk assessment/management, Data collection/reporting, Hazards, Climate change, Procedural matters, Protection of environment

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the content and manner of keeping registers of protected areas.

Legislation | Serbia | 2019

Keyword: Protected area, Data collection/reporting, Registration, Procedural matters, Surface water, Groundwater

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on determining the initial amount of rent according to which water land in public ownership can be leased.

Legislation | Serbia | 2019

Keyword: Concession, Aquaculture, Hydropower generation, Irrigation

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on limit values of pollutants in surface and groundwater and sediment and on deadlines for their achievement.

Legislation | Serbia | 2012

Keyword: Pollution control, Water quality standards, Groundwater, Surface water, Hazardous substances, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the leasing of public owned water lands.

Legislation | Serbia | 2019

Keyword: Procedural matters, Public private partnership (PPP), Concession, Contract/agreement

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on contents and manner of keeping the Cadastre of water bodies.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Water supply, Waterworks, Data collection/reporting, Registration, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Inland waters

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the content and manner of managing the water information system, methodology, structure, categories and levels of data collection, as well as on the content of data about which the public is informed.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Water supply, Data collection/reporting, Industrial water use, Business/industry/corporations, Access-to-information, Monitoring

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation determining the boundaries of sub-basins.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Inland waters, Basin/catchment/watershed, Classification/declassification

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on determining of surface and groundwater bodies.

Legislation | Serbia | 2010

Keyword: Inland waters, Surface water, Groundwater, Classification/declassification

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on the content, manner of keeping and form of the water book.

Legislation | Serbia | 2010

Keyword: Data collection/reporting, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Registration, Water rights

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation on reference conditions for surface water types.

Legislation | Serbia | 2011

Keyword: Surface water, Water quality standards, Freshwater pollution, Pollution control

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amended by

Law amending the Water Law.

Legislation | Serbia | 2018

Keyword: Water abstraction, Water rights, Water supply, Concession, Royalties/fees, Waterworks

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Law amending the Water Law.

Legislation | Serbia | 2016

Keyword: Freshwater resources management, Water quality standards, Water rights, Water supply, Offences/penalties, Local government, Policy/planning, Inspection

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Law amending the Water Law.

Legislation | Serbia | 2012

Keyword: Financing, Water charges, Governance

Source: FAO, FAOLEX