FOURTH NATIONAL REPORT OF MONTENEGRO TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Nature protection and biodiversity conservation (hereinafter: biodiversity) in Montenegro are under frequent changes because country emerged economic and social transition. In a very short period after getting independence (2006), Montenegro improved protection and conservation of its natural assets and sustainable use of biological resources. Significant progress has been made in the development of legislature, building up more efficient institutional framework and improvement of the system of protection and management the natural / biological resources.

By joining the Convention on Biological Diversity in June 2006, Montenegro has committed to protect the overall biological and genetic diversity in the manner prescribed by the Convention. Based on the Convention, the first National Strategy and Action Plan for the period 2010 – 2015 has been just recently adopted, on 29 July 2010. The strategy is the fundamental document for protection of nature, which determine long-term goals and numerous actions for protection biological diversity and protected natural assets, as well as ways of its implementation coherent with overall economic and social circumstances in the country.Prior to Strategy adopted, a new, modern Nature Protection Law (2008) has been adopted in order to transpose relevant provisions from various international agreements in the field of nature protection, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the relevant regulations of EU.

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