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The Let's Not Drown Belgrade Initiative on Oct. 30 presented to the media official correspondence on the Vinca incinerator project, incited by a statement by Minister of Environmental Protection Goran Trivan, that the information the Initiative had publicized earlier EIB
was not true and that the European Investment Bank (EIB) had not refused to finance the incinerator construction project.
After the Initiative informed the European Commission and the international and European banks involved in the project, about the damage the construction of a waste incinerator in Vinca would cause for Serbian citizens, they say they received a reply from the EIB that "after due diligence" the bank had decided not to take part in joint financing of the project.
The EU Delegation to Serbia has also confirmed that the incinerator is unacceptable by European standards and its representatives have told the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation that "according to the current project for Vinca, the new facility would have the capacity to incinerate more than half of Belgrade's household waste, which would not incite recycling and would seriously jeopardize Serbia's ability to harmonize with EU legislation," the statement reads.
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