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February 2009 Serbia’s Capacity for Renewables and Energy Efficiency

Report by these guys http://www.jeffersoninst.org/Home.asp
Exact pdf file link at bottom.

Despite these ambitious plans, the lack of the necessary sub-laws and regulations
to enable these laws prevents their full implementation. Implementing agencies lack
qualified personnel to implement existing legislation, resulting in delays and poor
communication among regulatory institutions and private and civic actors.
The Serbian government hopes to complete many of these regulations by June
2009, and they are expected to include financial incentives for renewable energy
production and an improved regulatory framework for the production and transport of
biodiesel, but these deadlines have slipped before. (5)
Despite these ambitious plans, the lack of the necessary sub-laws and regulations
to enable these laws prevents their full implementation. Implementing agencies lack
qualified personnel to implement existing legislation, resulting in delays and poor
communication among regulatory institutions and private and civic actors. (6)
Likewise, the Serbian government is planning to stimulate the production of
electrical power from renewable energy sources by setting higher wholesale prices for
energy produced from these sources (wind, biomass, etc.). In the first half of 2009, the
government plans to adopt regulations on defining “privileged producers” of electricity
from renewable energy sources. These regulations will define the terms of contracts
between the privileged alternative source producer and electrical grid operators that
will buy the electricity and ultimately sell it to the final consumers. The lawmakers
preparing this legislation believe that the higher prices for the alternative energy will
stimulate foreign investors to become active in this industry in Serbia. (7)
Moving forward, the most important step for Serbia is to define the legal advantages that it can offer
producers of alternative energy sources and to define what sort of financial incentives it
will be able to offer to increase their ability to produce this energy.



5 Implementation Program of the Energy Development Strategy 2006-2015, Government of the Republic of Serbia.
6 Interview with representatives of the Group for renewable and alternative energy sources, Slobodan Cvetkovic and
Svetomir Zivkovic, January 19, 2009.
7 Ibid.

http://www.jeffersoninst.org/Documents/serbia_policy_paper.pdf

The good the bad and the ugly...
4 megabyte PDF, worth reading