Useful links

Aarhus Convention

Internet presentation of the Secretariat of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.

https://unece.org/environment-policy/public-participation/aarhus-convention/introduction

 

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection is an autonomous public authority, who exercises his/her powers independently and whose competences are focused on ensuring free access to information of public importance and personal data protection.

http://www.poverenik.rs

 

Environmental Protection Agency of the Republic of Serbia

Environmental Protection Agency performs professional tasks related to the development, coordination and management of the national information system for environmental protection, the implementation of the national air and water quality monitoring, collection and integration of the environmental data, development of reports on the state of the environment and the implementation of environmental policy, as well as other tasks stipulated by the law.

http://www.sepa.gov.rs

 

Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia

Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia, beside other activities within the field of environmental protection, is also active in implementing the Aarhus Convention stipulations that are related to the right of free public access to environmental information.

https://www.ekologija.gov.rs/

Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia

Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia is the governmental institution that conducts the activities in conservation and development of natural heritage of Serbia.

http://www.zzps.rs

 

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) – Mission to Serbia

The Mission advises on the implementation of laws and monitors the proper functioning and development of democratic institutions and processes in Serbia; it assists law enforcement bodies and the judiciary in training and restructuring.

http://www.osce.org/serbia

 

National Library of Serbia

National Library of Serbia is the major national institution engaged in library and information related activities, as well as in activities related to the protection of old and rare library materials.

http://www.nb.rs/

 

COBISS – Co-operative Online Bibliographic System & Services
COBISS represents an organisational model of joining libraries into a uniform library information system with shared cataloguing and with a number of other functions of the so-called virtual library, with the possibility of using advanced system of content search.

http://www.vbs.rs/cobiss/

 

KOBSON – Consortium of libraries for integrated acquisition

KOBSON represents national consortium of libraries in Serbia, established with the aim to optimize acquisition of foreign scientific information, transfer from printed to electronic publications, to improve access to electronic information and to promote national scientific publishing.

http://kobson.nb.rs

 

SCIndeks – Serbian Citation Index

SCIndeks is the Serbian national citation index, developed to serve as an add-on to the international citation indices; it is indexing locally published journals classified as periodicals of scientific character, and it currently contains more than 1.5 million references from more than 100,000 articles, of which nearly a half is accessible as a full text.

http://scindeks.ceon.rs/

 

Archive of Serbia

Archive of Serbia collects, preserves, protects and maintains the archive material and enables its use for scientific and other purposes.

https://arhivsrbije.rs/en

 

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia performs the expert tasks related to the organization and conducting of the statistical surveys, collecting, processing, statistical analysis and publishing of the statistical data, development, maintenance and usage of administrative and statistical registers of the Republic, as well as other tasks stipulated by the law. 

www.stat.gov.rs

 

RHMS - Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia

Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia is the referential organization for developing and presenting weather and hydrological forecasts, and for issuing severe weather warnings. Internet presentation contains current hydrological, meteorological and other data that are collected on daily basis.

http://www.hidmet.gov.rs

 

Aarhus Centre Kragujevac

Aarhus Centre Kragujevac was founded with the aim to establish cooperation between the general public and local government, as well as to establish democratic processes within the field of environmental protection; target groups of the project are citizens and representatives of the local government and  media.

http://www.aarhus.org.rs

 

Regional Aarhus Centre Subotica

Regional Aarhus Centre Subotica works on the aim of establishing cooperation between the local government and citizens, as well as the improvement of their access to information and education to enhance their involvement in decision making processes, as well as to provide for democratic processes within the field of environmental protection.

http://www.aarhussu.rs

 

Aarhus Centre Novi Sad

Aarhus Centre Novi Sad was founded with the aim to establish cooperation between the general public and local government based on the Aarhus Convention stipulations, which promote right of public access to environmental information, public participation in decision making processes and access to justice.

http://aarhusns.rs

 

Aarhus Centre for Southern and Eastern Serbia

Aarhus Centre for Southern and Eastern Serbia was founded with the aim to establish cooperation between the general public and local government in this region based on the Aarhus Convention stipulations, which promote right of public access to environmental information, public participation in decision making processes and access to justice.

http://www.aarhuscentarjis.rs

Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities 

Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities is an alliance of towns and municipalities in Serbia with the mission to work on fulfilling interests of the local government, to provide high quality services and to support development and improvement of the local government in accordance with the European standards.

http://www.skgo.org/

 

The Right of Free Access to Information – A Guide for High School Pupils in Serbia

“The Right of Free Access to Information” is an Internet presentation designed for high school pupils, with the aim to improve their awareness with regard to the right of free access to information of public importance and the active use of that right; presentation was established by the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection.

http://www.pravodaznam.rs/

 

INSPIRE – Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

INSPIRE represents a European Union spatial data infrastructure, that enables the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations, and better facilitation of the public access to spatial information across Europe.

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

 

SEIS - Shared Environmental Information System

The Shared Environmental Information System is a collaborative initiative to establish an integrated and shared EU-wide environmental information system, that would tie in all existing data gathering and information flows related to EU environmental policies and legislation.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/

 

Eionet - The European Environment Information and Observation Network

Eionet is a partnership network that provides the delivery of timely, nationally validated, high-quality environmental data from individual countries, which serve to support environmental management processes, environmental policy making and assessment, and public participation at national, European and global levels. Internet presentation contains accessible database of all reports submitted by Serbia.

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/

 

Eurostat

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union, established to provide the statistics at European level that enable comparative assessments among countries and regions. 

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu

 

GMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

GMES deliver information on environment and security which correspond to identified user needs, with the data covering a range of disparate issues including land, sea, atmosphere climate change and border surveillance.

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/gmes/

 

Serbian Biodiversity Portal

The Serbian Biodiversity Portal is a part of the global information exchange network established by the Convention on Biodiversity (Clearing House Mechanism - CHM), with the purpose to offer directly or provide links to the information on biodiversity.

http://biodiverzitet-chm.rs/

 

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species; the Internet database contains detailed information for each of the classified species

http://www.iucnredlist.org/

 

CITES species database

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) has aim to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival; species database contains data on the status of listed species per each country.

http://www.cites.org