Banja Luka to Doboj Road

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Project ID 41370

Status Signed

Location

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Business Sector

Transport

Notice Type

State

Project timeline

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

Project ID 41370

Status Signed

Location

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Business Sector

Transport

Notice Type

State

Environmental Category

Approval Date

04 Oct 2017

Disclosure date

22 Jun 2011

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."

Translated version of this PSD: Bosnian

Project Description

Provision of a sovereign loan in the amount of up to EUR 195 million to Republika Srpska Motorways (RSM) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to finance the construction of a motorway section between Prnjavor and Doboj, 37 km in length, which is part of the motorway section between Banja Luka and Doboj with an overall length of 76 km.

Project Objectives

Support of BiH's economic development by improving connectivity between its main cities and between BiH and neighbouring countries through Corridor Vc, which is BiH's strategic transport corridor.

Transition Impact

Moderate Good

Promotion of participation of the private sector in the development of RS motorways through the preparation and award of a public private partnership (PPP) concession for the construction and maintenance of a section of Corridor Vc in RS and the introduction of tolls in RS motorways as the motorway network is expanded.

Client Information

MOTORWAYS OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

The Client is Republika Srpska Motorways, a limited liability company wholly owned by the government of Republika Srpska.

EBRD Finance Summary

EUR 195,000,000.00

A sovereign guaranteed loan to the Company.

Total Project Cost

EUR 498,000,000.00

Environmental and Social Summary

Categorised A (2014). An Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) was required in accordance with Appendix 1 of the 2008 EBRD Environmental and Social Policy.

Information reviewed

Independent consultants undertook a review of the existing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), land acquisition plans, permitting and design documentation. A series of site visits were also undertaken to assess the potential social impacts of the Project as a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is not required under national regulatory requirements.

Environmental and Social issues

The EIA approval process was completed in March 2011 and the Environmental Permitting process is currently underway. The route was selected using a multi-criteria analysis which considered environmental and social impacts and feedback from stakeholders. Full project preparation documents including the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the Banja Luka to Doboj motorway are available on the Republika of Srpska Motorways website.

The non-technical summary for the Project has been updated and provides additional information on social issues. The main impacts of the Project are expected to be:

i changes to noise and air quality during construction and operations; i traffic disturbance, diversions and nuisance during construction;

i worker and public health and safety during construction; and

i land acquisition and associated involuntary resettlement.

Although the EIA anticipated that no habitats of rare or endangered species would be impacted by the Project, due diligence has identified that limited baseline surveys have been carried out within the corridor route. The EIA Decision has identified the need for further study supported by detailed reconnaissance. Additional pre-construction surveys will therefore be undertaken and used to inform specific mitigation measures to be adopted for the Project based on the precautionary principle approach.

The EIA took an approach, based on the assumption that a significant proportion of vehicles would
be using leaded fuel, to assess potential soil pollution at the roadside. As a result the EIA identified
the potential for prohibiting the use of land outside the Project area primarily for agricultural purposes,
due to predicted concentrations of heavy metals, salt & organic pollution of soil. Following changes
to regulations on technical accuracy of vehicles, use of engines with catalytic converters and use
of unleaded fuel it is now expected that the potential overall contamination will substantially reduce
the potential negative impact. A revised and more detailed assessment is to be prepared to enable
updated mitigation/restrictions to be identified for this issue and suggested changes to be approved
by the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Civil Engineering and Ecology.
Approximately 600 ha of land for the motorway has been acquired in accordance with the Republika
Srpska legislation. Negotiated settlements with individual owners were reached wherever possible.
Independent consultants have reviewed the land acquisition process to date and have confirmed
that the land acquisition has been implemented in accordance with the main requirements of
Performance Requirement 5 (PR5) and a Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) / Livelihood Restoration
Framework (LRF) is not required.
Consultations during the EIA and planning processes were carried out in accordance with the
Republika Srpska legislation requirements. However, a Stakeholder Engagement Plan has been
developed in accordance with EBRD's Performance Requirement 10 (PR10) to ensure that all
stakeholders have been identified, sufficient information about issues and impacts arising from the
Project are disclosed and a grievance procedure is in place for the Project.
Environmental or social opportunities
The Project is expected to reduce travel time for passengers and freight thus reducing transport
costs, lead to improvements in road safety and support development of local economies.
Environmental and Social Action Plan
An Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) has been developed and disclosed for the Project
to address issues identified during the due diligence.

There is an ESIA available for this Project.

The Supervision Engineer and the Client have been monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the ESAP, which has been satisfactory to date. Due to some minor changes to the alignment, there will be some additional limited land expropriation needed, but no physical displacement. The Client is aware that PR5 requirements will need to be met for the additional land acquisition.

Technical Cooperation

No TC's are anticipated for this Project.

Company Contact Information

Dusan Topic, General Manager
info@autoputevirs.com
0038751233680
0038751233700
www.autoputevirs.com
Ul. Vase Pelagi#a br. 10 78000 Banja Luka Republika Srpska Bosnia and Herzegovina

PSD last updated

19 Aug 2019

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Project ID 41370

Status Signed

Location

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Environmental Category

Disclosure date

17 Jun 2011

Purpose of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessments

The EBRD is considering providing a loan of up to EUR 70 million for construction of the 37.8 kilometre long Prnjavor – Doboj motorway section, which is part of the total 76 kilometre motorway from Banja Luka to Doboj.

The objective of the Project is to construct part of the Banja Luka to Doboj road which is the key regional link in Republika Srpska that runs parallel to Corridor X in Croatia and connects to Croatia in the north through Gradiska and at the eastern section, at Doboj to Corridor Vc which is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (‘BiH’) strategic north-south corridor.

The broad transitional theme is to encourage the participation of the private sector through support for development of the Public-Private-Partnership scheme.

There is a project summary document available for this project.

ESIA Summary

Non-Technical Summary (English) (2MB - PDF)

Non-Technical Summary (Serbian) (1MB - PDF)

The ‘Disclosure Package’ for the Project includes the following documents:

EIS Final Study: Banja Luka to Doboj Motorway: January 2011 (& Annexes) (Serbian and English)
Preliminary EIA: Banja Luka to Doboj Motorway: Book 5 : General Design CIP 2005 (Serbian and English)
Route Alignment Report: Banja Luka to Doboj Motorway: Book 1 Vol. 4 General Design CIP 2005 (Serbian and English)
Decision on the Approval of the EIS: Banja Luka to Doboj Motorway: (Decision No. 15-96-135/10) (Serbian and English)
Non-Technical Summary Prnjavor to Doboj Motorway (June 2011) (Serbian and English)
Environmental & Social Action Plan (ESAP) (June 2011) (Serbian and English)
Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) (June 2011) including grievance mechanism (Serbian and English)

English versions are available at the following website:

Serbian versions are available at the following sites:

Full ESIA availability

Full ESIA documentation is available locally at:

EBRD Headquarters in London, environmentandsocial@ebrd.com

And

Full ESIA documentation is available locally at:

Republika Srpska Motorways

Veselina Masleše 22, 78 000, Banja Luka

Tel: ++387 51 233 670

e-mail: ngajic@autoputevirs.com

www.autoputevirs.com

MUNICIPALITY PRNJAVOR

Karađorđrva 2

78 430 Prnjavor

Tel: ++387 51 663 740

http://www.opstinaprnjavor.net/

MUNICIPALITY DERVENTA
Trg oslobođenja 3,
74 400 Derventa
Tel: +387 53 315 106

www.derventa.ba

MUNICIPALITY DOBOJ
Hilandarska 1,
74 000 Doboj
Tel: +387 53 242 022

www.opstina-doboj.ba

MUNICIPALITY LAKTAŠI
Karađorđeva 56
78 250 Laktaši

Tel: +387 51 334 200

www.laktasi.net

And

EBRD Bosnia and Herzegovina Resident Office

15th Floor, Tower B
Unitic Towers
Fra Andela Zvizdovica 1
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Tel: +387 33 667 945, 946, 947
Fax: +387 33 667 950

This document was prepared at an early stage of project development, before consideration by the EBRD Board of Directors. Details of a project may change following disclosure.

Where PSDs include copies of documents produced by project sponsors, the EBRD makes them available without any comment or implied endorsement. Any views expressed or statements made in such documents do not necessarily reflect the EBRD’s views or opinions.

Last updated 19 August 2025

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Banja Luka to Doboj Road

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Translated version of this PSD: Bosnian

Project Description

Project Objectives

Transition Impact

Client Information

EBRD Finance Summary

Total Project Cost

Environmental and Social Summary

PSD last updated

Business opportunities

General enquiries

Public Information Policy (PIP)

Purpose of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessments

ESIA Summary

Full ESIA availability