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medium-term projects that have to solve the pressing environmental problems efficiently in
the Republic of Macedonia. |
Air Quality Improvement |
- Reduction of the quantity of lead emissions from motor vehicles and
introducing the possibility to abolish leaded petrol.
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- Reduction of pollution from the lead and zinc smelter in Veles buy
purchasing equipment for controlling and reducing harmful emissions.
- Drafting a programme for monitoring air pollution over Skopje,
detecting major pollutants, and reducing pollution.
- Programme on gradual termination of substances that are harmful for
the ozone layer.
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Water Quality Improvement: |
- Drafting a plan for all water resources in the Republic of Macedonia
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- Developing a waste water treatment system in Skopje and Bitola, and
in the other bigger cities.
- Completing the collector system of Lake Ohrid.
- Building an industrial waste water treatment facility in HEK
"Jugohrom" - Jegunovce.
- Rehabilitation of the river Grasnica by mandatory waste water treatment of the
industrial waters before they are discharged in the river.
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Solid Waste Management |
- Drafting regulations on solid waste management (transportation,
collection and deposition of waste).
- Drafting programmes for recycling solid waste.
- Completing the landfill "Drisla" and improving the landfill
"Vardariste" in Skopje.
- Identifying a location in the Republic of Macedonia for depositing hazardous waste.
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Biodivesity Protection: |
- Drafting an action plan for biodiversity protection.
- Forestration and protection of forests.
- Drafting forestration plans.
- Improvement of forest management by forest management companies and regenration of the
forest fund within the national parks.
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Technical Assistance |
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Coordination between the Ministry of Urban Planning,
Construction and Environmental Protection, the environmental NGOs, Associations of
citizens and others through certain training programmes for action plans and technical
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- The industrial plants that pollute the air must install filters for treating the air,
but also to reduce the share of emissions from motor vehicles in the overall pollution by
using alternative fuels.
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- Very often plants and residential property is built on the most
fertile soil, thus this land is lost forever. Part of the fertile soil is lost due to
erosion. Overuse of fertilizers for bigger yields has a negative impact on the health of
people. The effect of the aerosols and gases from the industrial chimneys is enormous
disruptions of the fertility of soil, thus the living beings. To protect the land, we must
decrease the degree of re-use of agricultural land, prevent the erosion processes, reduce
chemical use in agriculture, and protect the waters and air from pollution.
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