Miodrag Mišić, the Director of the Republic of Srpska Inspectorate and Denis Stevanović, the Director of the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund of the Republic of Srpska, held a work meeting today where enforcement of regulations in the area of packaging and packaging waste management was discussed, which falls under the authority of the Republic of Srpska Market Inspection Service.
The participants concluded that the cooperation of institutions so far has been extraordinary, in terms of professionalism, as well as efficiency, and that the results of the inspection service surveillance in the subject matter has yielded significant progress. Regarding that, continuation of cooperation through continued information exchange and the analysis of conditions in the area enables more efficient implementation of legal provisions.
Chief Republic Market Inspector Vaso Janković, on this occasion highlighted that the inspection service has conducted around 150 controls of packaging waste management last year, where the penalties in the amount of 280,000 BAM were imposed because it was found that subjects did not register the exact amount of packaging waste. Taking administrative measures in these cases and imposing correction of registered amounts, have directly contributed to the growth of paid fees.
All businesses which produce or import, that is place the packaging on the market, including all of the packaging waste created in the industry, craftmanship, retail, hospitality or any other lines of business, or create waste in any other way, are required to handle it in line with the law.
In accordance with the law, obliged entities must pay a fee which is calculated on the basis of annual report on packaging waste management which is submitted to the competent ministry for environmental protection and to the Fund in a statutory deadline.
The meeting concluded that the aim of inspection service is not to penalise and repress, but to continually work on improvement of the subject matter through institutional cooperation, and in a way that businesses perform their legal duty in a timely manner and to deliver reports to the competent authorities.
