The Danube harbors to become public domain

Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Bozidar Djelic stated today that the drafting of the Danube strategy was an excellent opportunity to bring order into that sector in Serbia, underlining that, according to the law that was being composed, harbors on the Danube would become public domain.

Djelic said that the Danube strategy implied the adoption of a new law which would help to improve harbor management, because the banks of the Danube River would be made public domain, in line with the EU standards. The banks will be leased out through concessions and harbor operators will be private entities, he specified.

Recalling that legal changes in this sense have already been made, he declared that turning this land into public domain will not harm anyone's private interests because Serbia needs domestic capital to revive the Danube. The domestic legal system must respect private property, he underlined.

According to him, at the latest conference on the Danube strategy, held in Constanta, Romania, Serbia's initiative to hold the session regarding the funding of this project on September 27 in Belgrade was accepted.