Air Quality in Urban Areas in Serbia: Current State and Legal Protection

Batrićević, Ana and Batanjski, Vera (2013) Air Quality in Urban Areas in Serbia: Current State and Legal Protection. In: IIIrd International Conference ―Ecology of Urban Areas, 2013, Ečka – Zrenjanin, 11 th October 2013, proceedings. Faculty of Technical Sciences ―Mihajlo Pupin, Zrenjanin, pp. 58-67. ISBN 978-86-7672-209-9

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Abstract

Satisfactory level of air quality is one of key preconditions for the survival of all living organisms. Due to rapid industrial development, increased traffic and everyday use of toxic substances in industry, agriculture, health care, pharmacy and cosmetics, air pollution, particularly in urban areas, has become a serious global issue. The consequences of this environmental, legal, social, economic and medical problem are long-lasting and devastating. They affect environment as a whole and its integral parts – air, water, soil, living organisms and the entire humankind, including future generations, and represent grave violations of human right of healthy living environment. Annual Reports of Environment Protection Agency show that air quality in the zone of the Republic of Serbia and its agglomerations of Beograd, Bor, Niš and Novi Sad is assessed as ―over polluted‖, which means that tolerable values of one or more air pollutants have been exceeded in these areas, causing serious concern of experts and general public. The authors of this paper provide a brief overview of present state of air quality in Serbia, critically analyze current legislative framework for its protection and explain the mechanism of state reaction to the violation of legal provisions relevant to air protection.

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