Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management www.polj.sr.gov.yu
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management is responsible for agricultural development and protection, use and promotion of agricultural areas, forestry and water, flora and fauna; rural development; the food industry; water economy and water management (except water distribution);
as well as other activities specified by the law.
Within the Ministry, the Directorate for Forests specifically deals with forestry policy, improvement and use of forests and game, execution of measures for protection of forests and game, control of seeds and seedlings in forestry, as well as other tasks determined by law.
The Directorate has a normative and regulatory function, operating through two departments:
• Department for Inspection Coordination
• Department of Forestry and Hunting

Ministry of Economy www.mpriv.sr.gov.yu
Ministry of Economy’s competencies among other include: business and financial restructuring of enterprises; privatization; bankruptcy; structural adjustment of the economy; creating proposals of economic policy measures aimed at ensuring growth of overall industrial production and of specific branches; proposals of investment incentives; SMEs development; coordination of activities relating to capital value appraisal; coordination of activities relating to creation of ownership ties between Serbian
enterprises and strategic foreign investors; drafting of regulations in the fields of entrepreneurship and
enterprises, privatization and bankruptcy and other regulations relating to the overall market reform;
impact of economic policy measures on developments in the overall industrial production.

Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection www.mntr.sr.gov.yu
The main task of the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection is to foster the development of science and new technologies in Serbia, at the same time caring for the environment trough Directorate for the Environmental Protection (www.ekoserb.sr.gov.yu).
It is responsible for overall environmental protection; protection of the environment from pollution; protection against ionizing and non–ionizing radiation; noise and vibration; production, sale and disposal of hazardous substances, etc, through the concept of effective ecological support to the economic reforms and development, privatization and infrastructural projects.

Serbian Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) www.sepa.sr.gov.yu
SEPA has been established as part of the Ministry for Science and Environmental Protection of Republic of Serbia and has following objectives:
• Development, regulation and maintenance of the National information system for the environmental protection (monitoring the parameters of the state of the environment, pollutants cadastre, etc.);
• Environmental data acquisition, centralization and processing, reporting about the state of the environment and policy implementation in the field of environmental protection;
• Development of the procedures for environmental data processing and evaluation;
• Management of the information about best available techniques and practices and their implementation in the field of environmental protection;
• Cooperation with the European Environmental Agency (EEA) and European Environment Information and
Observation Network (EIONET), as well as other objectives defined by law.

Public Enterprise for Forest Management – Srbijašume www.srbijasume.co.yu
Established by the Forest Law, Srbijašume’s main responsibility is the management of all state owned forests in Serbia. With a Head office in Belgrade, Srbijašume has forest estates throughout Serbia along with Forest Management Units in the field.
Other Srbijašume responsibilities include:
• Cultivation, protection, conservation and utilization of forests.
• Raising and utilization of game.
• Engineering, construction and maintenance of forest roads.
• Preparation of management programs and plans.
• Technical operations in private forests.
• Advancement and utilization of public–beneficial functions of forests.
• Wholesale and retail trade of forest products.

Public Enterprises of National Parks
Public enterprise (PE) National Parks of Serbia was assembled by the National Parks Law of 1993.
JP “Nacionalni parkovi” (Public Enterprise “National parks"), covers 5 national parks with a total area of 159,525 ha.
• PE National Park “Fruška gora": 25,393 ha, established 1960 (www.npfruskagora.co.yu);
• PE National Park “Tara": 19,715 ha, established 1981 (www.tara.org.yu);
• PE National Park “Kopaonik": 11,809 ha, established 1981 (www.kopaonik.net);
• PE National Park “Djerdap": 63,608 ha, established 1988 (www.npdjerdap.co.yu);
• PE National Park “Šar – planina": 39,000 ha, established 1993.
The forests in national parks are managed in accordance with special programs of protection.

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