CITY OF SUBOTICA MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECON. PROGRAMME

Overview
Project Summary Document
Environmental and Social Documentation
Procurement
Complaints

Project ID 26807

Status Complete

Location

Serbia

Business Sector

Municipal Infrastructure

Notice Type

Public

Project timeline

Exploratory
Passed Concept Review
Passed Structure Review
Passed Final Review
Board Approved
Signed
Implementing
Completed

Project ID 26807

Status Complete

Location

Serbia

Business Sector

Municipal Infrastructure

Notice Type

Public

Environmental Category

Approval Date

19 Oct 2004

Disclosure date

02 Jul 2005

As per section 1.4.2 (iii) of the Directive on Access to Information: "For Projects approved by Bank management where the Board of Directors has delegated the approval authority, the PSD shall be disclosed at the start of the relevant no-objection notification period to a member country of the Bank in accordance with Article 13 (iii) of the Agreement Establishing the EBRD."

Project Description

The proposed project comprises the rehabilitation and modernisation of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the City of Subotica. This will increase the treatment capacity of the WWTP, introduce removal of phosphorus and nitrogen and improve sludge treatment.

The operation has environmental objectives to restore the ecological balance and increase the recreational value of Lake Palic. It will also ensure higher quality water supply and sewerage service to citizens in the region and improve the financial and operational sustainability of the water company.

Transition Impact

Commercialising of the water industry in Subotica
The operation will introduce a Service Contract between the City and the water company to determine the level of service standards, and set targets for financial and operating efficiency.
Demonstration effect
The project is developed together with the Serbian Municipal Infrastructure Agency, which will help spread best practices for project identification and preparation to other municipalities in Serbia.
Procurement
Enforcement of the Bank’s Procurement rules will result in the use of competitive and transparent procurement procedures.

The Client

Subotica Vodovod i Kanalizacija, the City of Subotica’s municipal water utility enterprise. The utility enterprise provides water supply and sanitation services to the City of Subotica.

The City of Subotica is located in the region of Voijvodina in north-western Serbia close to the Hungarian boarder. The City has 100,000 inhabitants.

EBRD Finance

Sovereign guaranteed long-term loan of up to € 9 million.

Grant co-financing is expected from the European Agency for Reconstruction, and from local contributions

Project Cost

€ 12 million.

Environmental Impact

The project was screened B/0, requiring environmental analysis, which may include an environmental action plan. The project will help improving environmental, health and safety management of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.

When fully implemented and operational, the investment project will bring environmental benefits to the population of the city of Subotica by:

(i) improving the quality of the effluent
(ii) reducing pollution of the Lake Palic.

Technical Cooperation

Technical and environmental due diligence assignment 48,000 Euro funded from the Bank’s Austrian Technical Cooperation Fund
Preparation of technical designs and tender documents and Procurement Support 150,000 Euro funded from the Bank’s Technical Cooperation Funds Programme from the Netherlands.
Project Management and FIDIC engineer Euro 600,000 funded from Italy/EBRD Trust Fund for private sector development in Western Balkans
Institutional development programme for the Company and the City, expected to be provided by the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR).

Transition impact

ETI Score:60

PSD last updated

01 Feb 2019

Business opportunities

For business opportunities or procurement, contact the client company.

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Public Information Policy (PIP)

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Text of the PIP

Environmental and Social Documentation is not available for this project.

Selected procurement notices related to this project may be shown below. Further procurement opportunities related to this and other projects, if available, maybe be viewed in the EBRD Procurement Portal.

The EBRD's Environmental and Social Policy (ESP), Access to Information policy (AIP) and Project Accountability Policy (PAP) enable sound and sustainable development in its projects. The Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM) deals with complaints about environmental, social and disclosure matters related to the Bank’s investments.

No complaints about this project have been made so far.

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