The draft law on legalization stipulates that the registration of property can also be done on illegal construction in national parkhe told The new economy BIRN journalist Radmilo Marković, who had insight into the draft.
The proposal should be presented to the Government of Serbia on Friday, and adoption in the assembly would be by urgent procedure.
"An apartment in the national park will cost 2.000 euros to register the property, and a building in the national park, larger than 200 square meters, will cost 10.000 euros to register the property," said Marković.
As he explains, the condition is that the manager of the national park, the public company that is responsible for it, does not declare against it within seven days.
"The same goes for the army, if the army doesn't announce itself for seven days, then I can register on that as well," says the BIRN journalist.
Law similar to the one from 2015
He pointed out that with the new law, those who built after 2015 will be the happiest and reminded that the former Minister of Construction, Zorana Mihailović, said then that illegal construction is over and that there are one and a half million illegal buildings.
"Now there are five million, which means that in the meantime, 3,5 million buildings were built without a building permit," says Marković.
He emphasizes that it is a draft, and that the proposal that will be presented to the Government does not have to be like that, but at the moment, that is what is written in it.
"You wave at people with those hundred euros in front of your eyes, and here you are going to 'legalize' Tara, Zlatibor, Kopaonik, Fruška Gora, Stara planina..." says Marković.
As he says, in principle it would be good for citizens to register as owners of their property, but it remains to be seen how the law will be applied, because a law with a similar goal was created in 2015.
Also, says Marković, the old requests for legalization were not resolved, but the newer ones, what was not allowed was also legalized "through a connection".
"It seems to me that it will be appropriate to legalize as soon as possible those who remained illegal in the previous round of legalization, and the others when and if it is their turn," Marković said.
The cadastre is a state within a state.
He also warns that all requests should go through the cadastre, where there are already tens, if not hundreds of thousands of old requests that have not been completed for years.
"Given that the cadastre is a state within a state, I doubt that they will just let it all be registered, without them having any influence on who will do it first. From that side, I see a bottleneck in the cadastre," says the BIRN journalist.
He points out that simultaneously with the emergence of millions of illegal properties, there were also those who built according to the law and with all the necessary permits. Marković cites the example of a man who built 12 apartments, and paid a total of 80.000 euros to the state for all necessary permits, taxes and other duties.
"And he asks, 'Am I a fool for doing that?'" Marković pointed out, is the message sent by the state.
A database will be created.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, announced during the weekend that the state will propose a law on legalization without a complicated procedure that will solve the issue of 4,8 million illegal buildings by the New Year, and for about 70 percent of the buildings, the price of legalization will be a total of 100 euros.
The day after Vučić's announcement, the Minister of Construction, Aleksandra Sofronijević, told RTS that there is already a digital platform on which all built objects on the territory of Serbia are recorded, which is updated daily.
As for the procedure, it will be mandatory to apply for the legalization of facilities.
The municipalities will determine the compensation according to the existing zones, Minister Sofronijević announced.
The Spatial Planning and Urban Planning Agency of the Republic of Serbia will create a database that will be available to everyone, she told RTS.
Within 60 days, all our citizens have the right and the opportunity to apply, and an additional 30 days to file objections to the set of data from the database, Sofronijević said.
"We already have a lot when we talk about the application. It is digital and it contains only the basic data about the object, which when you click on it in digital format, that object opens and you identify it, you give the basic data about the object and yourself as the de facto owner, and that's it. Of course, there are situations when the state will ask for some additional things, but those are a little complicated and borderline cases," Sofronijević said.
The Government of Serbia should decide on the law on Friday, and it has been announced that it will be sent to the Assembly and adopted under an urgent procedure.
Source: Nova Ekonomija/N1/RTS
