Environmental impact assessment

Project description
and objectives:

The Borrower is Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Client is Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Motorways Directorate

Project description

Parallel financing with the European Investment Bank (‘EIB’) of key sections of Trans-European Corridor Vc (‘Corridor Vc’), which is the main north-south Corridor running through BiH.

Project components/locations

• Kakanj to Drivusa section (length = 15.2 km);
• Vlakovo to Tarčin section (length = 18.9 km);
• Pocitelj to Southern Border with Croatia (length = 21.4 km).
• Odzak to Northern Border with Croatia (length = 10.9 km).

Business purpose/transition impact

Support to BiH for the development of the motorway network, through the provision of loan financing, together with a programme of institutional support for the FBHMD and for developing subsequent sections of the corridor using private financing.

There is a project summary document available for this project.

EIA summary:

Executive summary (English)  (1.5Mb)
Executive summary (Bosnian)  (1.3Mb)

Full EIA availability:

The EIA has already been publicly disclosed and two rounds of public consultations were held at 20 locations in project affected communities along the Corridor in the period 2005-2007. Nevertheless EBRD requested the Client to disclose again the EIA and PCDP documents for additional 120 days on the Client’s web site so as to meet the Bank’s Environmental and Public Information Policies requirements.

Full EIA documentation is available locally at:

Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of Communications and Transport
Hamdije Cemerlica 2/13
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tel: +387 33 254 392; Fax: +387 33 222 193
e-mail: z.nametak@mkt.gov.ba
Contact Name: Ms Zejna Nametak

And

EBRD Sarajevo Resident Office
Fra Andjela Zvizdovica 1
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Contact Name: Mr Josip Polic
Tel. +387 33 667 945

And

EBRD's Business Information Centre,
One Exchange Square,
London, EC2A 2JN, UK

Client website: http://www.mkt.gov.ba/bos/aktivnosti/vcplan.php

Enquiries:

Environmental enquiries

1. Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of Communications and Transport
Hamdije Cemerlica 2/13
71000 Sarajevo
Tel: +387 33 254 392; Fax: +387 33 222 193
e-mail: z.nametak@mkt.gov.ba
Contact Name: Ms Zejna Nametak

2. Motorway Directorate of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Terezije 54
71000 Sarajevo
Tel: +387 33 562 702; Fax: +387 33 562 690
e-mail: b.sejla@feda.ba
Contact Name: Ms Sejla Buric

General enquiries

1. Motorway Directorate of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Terezije 54
71000 Sarajevo
Tel: +387 33 562 700; Fax: +387 33 562 690
e-mail: feda1@bih.net.ba
Contact Name: Mr Erdal Trhulj, General Manager

2. Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of Communications and Transport
Hamdije Cemerlica 2/13
71000 Sarajevo
Tel. +387 33 254 392; Fax : +387 33 222 193
e-mail: n.kupusovic@mkt.gov.ba
Contact Name: Mr Namik Kupusovic, Corridor Vc Project Coordinator