28 January 2011
28.01.2011- In the premises of Hotel Prishtina, the closing ceremony of the project Mapping the Water Polluters Cadastre of Kosovo was held, a project financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and implemented by the Regional Environmental Center- REC Office in Kosovo in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, specifically the Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency.
On this occasion, the Report on the Water Polluters Cadastre as well as the Cadastre Database were also promoted.
The Minister of the MMPH, Mahir Yagcilar, in his speech among other things emphasized that identifying potential water polluters and preparing the cadastre of these polluters is a very important step in solving the problem of polluted waters in Kosovo. Therefore, in the future, the MMPH will support and promote similar projects for the treatment of wastewater and the monitoring of wastewater discharges into surface waters.
The director of the REC office for Kosovo, Mr. Zeqir Veselaj, thanked all those who contributed to the completion of this project, highlighting the possibility of continuing the project in its second phase, while Ambassador Mr. Sverre Johan Kvale, from the Embassy of Norway in Pristina, emphasized that the management of polluted waters is just one of the many challenges that await Kosovo in the future and expressed satisfaction that the Norwegian Government contributed to the realization of this project. In the concluding part of the project, certificates from the training on operating the cadastre and water pollutant database were also distributed, as well as the submission to AMMK of forms completed from fieldwork and some technical equipment.