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00:00:00to Dodik, because Dodik is not Republika Srpska,
00:00:03it even seems to me that in the BH entity Republika
00:00:06Srpska, it is one of the few places
00:00:10where citizens of Serbia with voting rights could
00:00:13vote uh in elections where Aleksandar
00:00:16Vučić actually won more votes than the student
00:00:20list, correct me if I'm wrong. Uh,
00:00:23yes, that's also, that's another good example of what they were doing,
00:00:27so, not only were they fighting us with, let's say, all our neighbors,
00:00:30but they literally almost brought about, as perhaps a collateral
00:00:34effect, but probably intentionally, to make the
00:00:37citizens of Serbia who live
00:00:40in Serbia fight with Serbs who live in Republika Srpska,
00:00:44almost at one point it was dangerous for some animosity to appear, because
00:00:48they were buying votes through their political connections,
00:00:51importing, even in the previous elections 23 of them
00:00:55literally brought people by bus to vote in
00:00:58local elections in Serbia. "which is terrible, but these are
00:01:02those daily political entanglements and manipulations that
00:01:06then practically deepen the crisis on all
00:01:09sides, it even led to Serbs from Republika
00:01:12Srpska and Serbs from Serbia, so that there is some
00:01:15conflict there on that relation, because someone
00:01:18decided it suited them to get more votes. Uh,
00:01:22Mr. Tošković, will we please, for the end, a short question,
00:01:26see you in the government or will you be in the National Assembly?".
00:01:31"I don't know and actually I honestly don't care,
00:01:34I this, we're just entering that process,
00:01:38we will vote,
00:01:41I think I can contribute to both sides,
00:01:45so depending on how we agree, I really have
00:01:48no preferences in that regard, so it's important that we enter
00:01:52the beginning of this process, I always say from the first to
00:01:55the 250th on that list from Ilija to
00:01:58Nenad, everyone would be..." great and both ministers and prime ministers
00:02:02and MPs, so it's important that things
00:02:05function, names are the least important here, of course they are important
00:02:09to maintain
00:02:12some kind of stability, to continue implementing
00:02:14the program, but they are really secondary, the essence is that
00:02:18the program of institutions functions, Mr.
00:02:21Tošković, thank you very much for your time for
00:02:24this interview for N1 Croatia, we will certainly
00:02:27be in touch, once again this would be... Oliver Tošković, one of
00:02:31the winning candidates from the student list
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00:03:07Will the lithium processing plant in Gospić be left without
00:03:11a building permit? While waiting for the decision of the authorities, the investor
00:03:15who invested more than 10 million euros in the project, announces
00:03:18a lawsuit, and citizens warn about
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00:07:20next guest is Mr. Vjeko Bušić from the initiative
00:07:24Gospić Our Home, Mr. Bušić, good morning and welcome to
00:07:36Bušić, we now have a new story when Gospić is
00:07:39concerned, on the one hand, the remediation has
00:07:43started, I would certainly like to hear your
00:07:46opinion and statement on that, but on the other hand
00:07:49there is a story about a factory which is not new, let's be clear,
00:07:53but we have new uh some new
00:07:57moments in that story, it's about a lithium factory,
00:08:00that is, a lithium processing plant in Gospić,
00:08:04will it be left without a building
00:08:06permit,
00:08:09well, our position on that is actually very...
00:08:12clear on February 27th
00:08:16of this year when the ministry's opinion
00:08:19that such a project does not need
00:08:22an environmental impact assessment was overturned
00:08:26and when the investor was instructed, he was returned to
00:08:30the environmental impact assessment procedure, then finally on
00:08:33August 3rd when it was announced that he must prepare an environmental
00:08:37impact study, it is clear that according to the law on general
00:08:40administrative procedure... the building permit must be
00:08:44overturned given that a building permit
00:08:47cannot exist without a prior
00:08:51environmental impact study, I think the law is very clear there.
00:08:54Mr. Milinović actually clashed with you
00:08:58there, as far as I understand,
00:09:02uh, he even accused certain members of the initiative
00:09:05of some possible connections with other investors, i.e.
00:09:09other waste disposal sites.
00:09:12Well, I don't know how uh how
00:09:15citizens who are actually the whole
00:09:18problem of waste itself and the lithium
00:09:21factory itself raised with their activity, with their
00:09:25reasoned objections actually
00:09:28uh, so to speak, to be publicly available to the entire
00:09:32public with their argumentation for the lithium factory,
00:09:36we are seeking the annulment of the building permit, we even submitted
00:09:3936 pages in the procedure... "in this environmental impact
00:09:43assessment, we presented our objections, wrote down all
00:09:47the inconsistencies and incorrect data that the investor used precisely
00:09:50in order to avoid that study, and as for
00:09:53the waste itself, meaning where we still forced
00:09:57the institutions in some way to work faster, although we are still
00:10:01not satisfied, I don't know how we could be as
00:10:05citizens or as members of this initiative
00:10:08the only main problem about that, well that's a bit unbelievable to
00:10:12me, but well we'll let people judge
00:10:15and there's another moment of these 10 million
00:10:19euros of investor Aleksandar
00:10:21Devčić, he says he invested that much.
00:10:25that if the permit is revoked, he will sue
00:10:28the city of Gospić, now that's another, another
00:10:31dimension, actually that uh well
00:10:35unfortunately we are listening to some threats from the investor, actually
00:10:38the investor all the time again
00:10:41the investor addresses the city, meaning
00:10:45a small local community, although it is actually very
00:10:48clear from the entire chronology of the case how great
00:10:52responsibility and fault actually lies precisely with...
00:10:55the investor, the investor submitted the first request
00:10:58to the ministry in 2023
00:11:02and correctly named his plant then, meaning that
00:11:05it would be a lithium processing plant. When he then received
00:11:09the ministry's opinion that his project should go for
00:11:12an environmental impact study, he abandoned it. He resubmits
00:11:16the request in March
00:11:202024, incorrectly classifying
00:11:23it as a plant... for smelting mineral substances,
00:11:27at the request of the ministry to correctly
00:11:30classify his project because it is a plant
00:11:34for smelting mineral substances, he withdraws his
00:11:38request and then submits a new request, his entire
00:11:40elaborate is uh full of uh this
00:11:44errors, he actually completely incorrectly states
00:11:47the chemical formula with which he presents his project, i.e. he stated
00:11:50only one formula, not two or three that will actually be used
00:11:54in this production process precisely to most likely
00:11:57hide the nature of his process,
00:12:00then what is most important in Croatia
00:12:04is the impact on water on karst soil, on groundwater, he
00:12:07actually copies from the elaborate from the
00:12:11highway junction, Zagreb, Sisak, Žažina junction,
00:12:15so the investor is the one, let's say, who uses
00:12:19one name for the ministry and then says that
00:12:22it is about processing. uh
00:12:25Lithium soda first, then lithium salts, so
00:12:29all these names are not professional names in the chemical
00:12:32industry, precisely in order to somehow conceal
00:12:36the true nature of his process, so as not to
00:12:38reveal that it is actually a classic chemical
00:12:41industry, precisely according to our positive
00:12:44regulations, which are actually copied regulations from the European Union
00:12:48for the chemical industry, an environmental
00:12:51impact study is always mandatory, that the
00:12:55investor was aware of this, we need to go back to February 29,
00:12:582024, when the investor's representatives presented
00:13:02this project at the city council, the investor explicitly
00:13:05clearly said: you don't have to be afraid of anything, for
00:13:09such a project, an environmental impact study is
00:13:12required, if the study does not pass,
00:13:16there will be no project, and that is the risk that the investor
00:13:19takes, so the investor here
00:13:22is threatening with some lawsuits, and in fact, he has been... all
00:13:25the time, so to speak, dancing on the edge of legality,
00:13:29i.e. it is clear how he concealed his true
00:13:32intentions precisely in order to avoid preparing
00:13:35an environmental impact study and I think that actually
00:13:39the city and the ministry and the entire
00:13:42public should very clearly communicate about
00:13:45the investor or his authorized representative who prepared that
00:13:49elaborate for him, obviously in agreement with the investor,
00:13:52so that uh questions... of responsibility must
00:13:55be returned to the investor's side, among other things,
00:13:59of course it is bad in all of this that the ministry, so not
00:14:03the city but the ministry, issued an opinion at one point
00:14:07that such a project cannot, does not have to go for an environmental
00:14:10impact study, i.e. that it is acceptable for the environment,
00:14:14but I say, there too, the question must be asked how
00:14:17much the investor
00:14:21contributed to this, just to conclude, Mr. Bušić.
00:14:25what else does this tell us,
00:14:27I mean, we know each other, we've known each other for a few months, how long have we
00:14:31been following the topic of Gospić, now in the same
00:14:35Gospić, again questionable
00:14:38projects, again falling into
00:14:41the sector of pollution, environmental pollution,
00:14:45what went wrong in Gospić, that these are
00:14:48stories that are now appearing that it seems we will
00:14:51discover and hear more about, please just...
00:14:55briefly, well I'll try to be brief, I think this is
00:14:58actually now uh
00:15:01the right time for all this that is happening, to
00:15:04actually ask
00:15:08the level of the entire country, that in regions like
00:15:12Lika which is rich in actually clean nature, where that is
00:15:16its greatest asset,
00:15:18karst and karst waters and sources of drinking
00:15:22water.
00:15:29Do we need such projects that will exceptionally
00:15:33mean harm the environment, well I hope this
00:15:37will be a warning that in all future projects laws will be strictly
00:15:40respected, that we will not allow
00:15:43such investors
00:15:47uh to somehow succeed
00:15:51in deceiving both our institutions
00:15:54and the public, that our
00:15:57institutions will take these jobs they do much more seriously in the future
00:16:00because we must carefully evaluate every such project,
00:16:04especially those that could be harmful to the environment, and
00:16:08make an exclusively legal
00:16:10decision, Mr. Bušić, thank you very much
00:16:14for this conversation and for clarifying this case,
00:16:17but also for contextualizing it
00:16:21when we talk about Gospić and waste, once again
00:16:24this was Mr. Vjeko Bušić from the initiative Gospić is our
00:16:43Before Split city councilors today are two thematic sessions,
00:16:47one on the operations of the cleaning company during the time of director Ivica
00:16:51Karoglan and the procurement of the controversial biostabilizer, which
00:16:54is the subject of an investigation, started at 9 o'clock, at
00:16:58the initiative of independent councilor Davor
00:17:00Matijević. The second topic starts at 1 PM
00:17:04and talks about Split's Fimi Media, which
00:17:07initiated the largest opposition party, Centar. They want to review
00:17:11the filming contracts concluded with the private company
00:17:15Vision Fasad. It is interesting that no documentation was provided
00:17:18for either session. As things stand now, only the
00:17:22arrival of representatives of the company Vision
00:17:25Fasad is expected. But even without guests, two more political
00:17:28bickerings are expected in which there will certainly be no shortage
00:17:31of drama.
00:17:34The Split mayor is ready for a duel. He expects
00:17:38a political showdown over the Fimi Media affair, at the center of which is
00:17:41Antonio Nikolić, a person for whom Telegram journalist
00:17:45Denis Mahmutović discovered that after Šuta came to power,
00:17:49he experienced a rapid business ascent and, through two companies
00:17:52with which he is connected, began to receive a huge number of jobs
00:17:56from the city and its institutions. These are
00:17:59manifestations such as the celebration of Saint Duje, youth sports games
00:18:03and similar. The method of money inflow was quite
00:18:06imaginative, but... But we had established that those traces
00:18:10definitely led to him and to the companies he is connected with,
00:18:13Mayor Šuta denies his involvement in Nikolić's
00:18:17maneuvers in business with the city of Split and says that everything
00:18:21was done according to law and procedure. Anyone who
00:18:24has violated the law, of course I am against
00:18:27that, but what can be
00:18:30stated is that there was no
00:18:33exceeding of any legal or
00:18:36procedural part. which mm appeared
00:18:39in the public space related
00:18:43to mm purchase orders that
00:18:46were there, so I have nothing more to say than
00:18:49that. Tomislav Šuta insists on that story, but the evidence we
00:18:52have published so far, including a list of
00:18:55numerous jobs they received, testimonies
00:18:58of numerous city employees who saw that young man,
00:19:01were in Banovina, where
00:19:04he regularly made pilgrimages to the city administration building, where he communicated with... city
00:19:07officials, prompted them with solutions, expected them to
00:19:11be fulfilled, absolutely deny the mayor's transparent
00:19:14attempts to protect his close associate. On Monday, a thematic
00:19:18session will be held on this topic, initiated by the Centar
00:19:21party. They publicly expressed suspicions of possible overpayment for services
00:19:25and non-transparent awarding of jobs and
00:19:28demand that contracts, invoices, purchase orders and other
00:19:31relevant documentation be delivered to the councilors.
00:19:35For the needs of Saint Duje, for promotion, when they engaged companies through the tourist
00:19:38board, Antonio Nikolić was again engaged, not only
00:19:42him, but also a company that served to inflate the price,
00:19:45i.e. to offer a higher price than Nikolić himself so that he would be chosen,
00:19:49worked with him and shared it on social networks. I think this case
00:19:52is so clear and simple that I really don't understand why there aren't already
00:19:55arrests, everything has been served to Mr. Turudić and I just call on him to do
00:19:59his job. So this thematic session should not be another
00:20:02political showdown, but an answer to the citizens of the city
00:20:06of Split, whether their money was really used
00:20:09contrary to the law and public interest. Vesela Šegvić
00:20:13Kordić, N1 Split.
00:20:25Let's go now to Zagreb, where Minister of Labor
00:20:28Alen Ružić announced changes to the Labor Law. Our reporter
00:20:32Viktorija Kristić is following this topic.
00:20:35Viktorija, what kind of
00:20:37changes are these when it comes to the Labor Law?
00:20:40pitanju.
00:20:44That's right, Hana, today at 12 o'clock an amendment to the law will be published,
00:20:48which then goes into public debate. My guest Mladen Novosel from
00:20:51the Independent Trade Union, from the Federation of Independent Trade Unions
00:20:55of Croatia, will tell us more about this topic. To
00:20:58start, could you just explain to us what the main
00:21:01changes actually are? Well, first of all, the amendments to the
00:21:04Labor Law go in three directions: harmonization with two
00:21:08European Union directives, namely on pay transparency, on
00:21:12better workers' rights when it comes to aggregators or platforms,
00:21:16and harmonization with one convention of the International Labor Organization.
00:21:2032 on the right to annual leave, when
00:21:23will these changes actually be felt? Well, first of all,
00:21:27what if we were to talk about some of the easiest
00:21:30or simplest changes, then we'll start with this convention,
00:21:34so the worker until now had the right to transfer his annual leave
00:21:38to the next year, so until around June 31st,
00:21:41what the Labor Law will now
00:21:44enable him is that when it comes to some adoptive leave
00:21:48or when it comes to, I don't know... family leave, the worker will
00:21:52be able to transfer his annual leave until the end of the
00:21:55next year, or at the latest 15 months
00:21:59from the realization of the right for the current year, so we are now in
00:22:032026, if for some reason
00:22:06these I mentioned, the worker will not be able to exercise the right to
00:22:09annual leave, he will be able to use it until March
00:22:1331st, 2028,
00:22:16so that is a slightly more favorable right than
00:22:20it was until now, when it comes to work platforms,
00:22:23i.e. aggregators, until now a worker who worked
00:22:26for an aggregator, i.e. for an intermediary, if his
00:22:30employer as an aggregator did not fulfill
00:22:33certain rights, as a rule platforms were not
00:22:36jointly and severally liable for his salary or some lost
00:22:40material right, or they had such a lenient regulation that they
00:22:44could very easily prove that they were not responsible, now that is
00:22:47still strengthened, but we know that a platform is... some
00:22:50imaginary employer, there is an aggregator where the worker
00:22:54is employed, if that worker, if that
00:22:57aggregator or intermediary does not fulfill some
00:23:00material right and so on, the worker will then be able to sue
00:23:04both the aggregator and jointly and severally the platform, so
00:23:07that is more favorable for the worker, now we come to
00:23:10the third directive on pay transparency, which has
00:23:14definitely aroused the most public interest,
00:23:17so now it's about... literally,
00:23:20an obligation of the employer to value
00:23:24every job, so regardless of whether they have
00:23:2820 or more employees, as they used to have an obligation by work
00:23:31rules, or have less than 20 employees, so if they have more than
00:23:3520, they can regulate the valuation of each job by rules of procedure or
00:23:39collective agreement, classically we can call it
00:23:42job systematization, if they don't, if they have
00:23:45less than 20, then they can by special regulation or
00:23:49individually... By employment contract, why is that
00:23:52important? Because if an employee, so we are talking about
00:23:55gender equality, if women, women and
00:23:58men work on almost similar
00:24:01jobs, they must be truly
00:24:04precisely valued, because theoretically it can happen that I as
00:24:08a man might have a slightly higher salary due to
00:24:12some criteria that are established there, it might seem
00:24:15that we do the same jobs, but then the employer must
00:24:19prove it. "You as a woman, if we work on the same jobs, you can,
00:24:23you can ask the employer, meaning that they
00:24:26first of all prove and show
00:24:29you the criteria based on which, to put it plastically, I have a fixed
00:24:33salary, and you will also have the right to ask for my average annual
00:24:36salary, so the average annual gross salary and other
00:24:40benefits, so that you can then compare it with your salary
00:24:43and your benefits, and if you consider, of course, that you are disadvantaged,
00:24:47you will have the right to sue the employer..." either
00:24:50through the works council or through the union, what
00:24:54is the allowed difference there? Some 5% is mentioned between
00:24:57men and women? Well, it's not 5% in some
00:25:01salary amount, but 5% deviation from certain
00:25:04criteria, so that's something that will of course be in practice,
00:25:08as we say, until judicial practice
00:25:11is established,
00:25:14or another, but the fact is that
00:25:17the employer must prove, so... to you, that
00:25:20they prove how big that difference is or why the difference is
00:25:24five or maybe 10% in salary difference, so the employer must
00:25:27prove why I have a 10% higher salary than
00:25:31you, we do almost
00:25:34identical jobs or you replace me when I'm not there, so if if
00:25:37you change me then, then you must be qualified for that
00:25:41kind of work just like me, it's now up to the employer then he
00:25:45proves, how will job advertisements actually look now, and that will
00:25:49change, one needs to have some specific information, can you tell us more about that?
00:25:52That's right, so now in job advertisements or at the very
00:25:56first job interview, the employer must explain
00:25:59the criteria for that position to the employee. So, if you
00:26:03are employed in a journalist position, the employer must
00:26:06give you the criteria based on which the salary
00:26:09for that position, skills, abilities,
00:26:12I don't know what else there is that the law
00:26:16has prescribed, among other things, so in any case you must
00:26:19get insight into it, you do not have to then and you will not
00:26:23be able to ask for some other salaries now, you will be able to ask
00:26:26for that when you get employed, then you will have the right to ask based
00:26:29on transparency what are the criteria for
00:26:33some other positions so that you can advance in
00:26:37that institution, work organization or whatever you call it.
00:26:40How do you feel, is this a good step towards actually gender
00:26:43equality? Well, I think it is, in any
00:26:47case, every transparency in itself
00:26:50is a step forward.
00:26:54Of course, the question then always arises how it will function
00:26:58in practice, how effective will
00:27:01the courts be. How much will I really be able to achieve that
00:27:04right, unfortunately it always comes down to this, if the
00:27:08worker is alone as an individual, it will be much
00:27:12harder to achieve that right than in some society where there is either
00:27:15a workers' council or a union, especially a union, that's the classic, as
00:27:19in every other right, it will always be easier to achieve that right
00:27:23through a union, but good heavens, it's up to the worker first and foremost
00:27:27to their good will, whether to be organized or to
00:27:30try to fight for their rights themselves. Thank you very much for this conversation, thank
00:27:34you, we heard the union's position, we bring all new
00:27:37information and we follow the actual announcement of the law at
00:27:4012 o'clock,
00:27:44we certainly continue to follow the changes to the labor
00:27:48law, once again this was our Viktorija Kristić,
00:28:00and now let's listen.
00:28:02The Minister of Environmental Protection Marija Vučković who answers
00:28:06journalists'
00:28:07questions.
00:28:10their program that they
00:28:13listed? Well, today, let me just
00:28:17briefly refer, so we presented a new law on
00:28:20environmental protection, recently we also discussed
00:28:24in the Parliament a draft of amendments and
00:28:27supplements to the Waste Management Act. I will say that we are also working on a new
00:28:31Air Protection Act. Last year we also passed a law, I can
00:28:34briefly call it about climate, that
00:28:38a nature protection law is being drafted, so it is a comprehensive new
00:28:41legislative framework regarding our department,
00:28:45well, if we exclude water
00:28:48management, the environmental protection law is the umbrella
00:28:52regulation, because the environment is everything, everything is a component of the environment, both nature
00:28:55and soil and air, we have dedicated
00:28:59ourselves to this regulation seriously, the working group has...
00:29:02Civil society and
00:29:05those bodies that are uh that are
00:29:09whose whose
00:29:12participation is especially important in drafting the environmental protection
00:29:15law, both national and regional and local, as well as
00:29:19entrepreneurship, and it is necessary to assess the
00:29:22effects in everything, and I think we have
00:29:25uh that we are starting public consultations with a good
00:29:29draft, and it is probable that in this
00:29:32process that is ahead of us, there will be additional
00:29:35improvements. And now, when we talk about
00:29:38the Waste Management Act, we
00:29:41have foreseen certain improvements,
00:29:44enhancements that we have achieved through systematic reviews
00:29:48and work in the last year.
00:29:51Uh, SDP we can
00:29:54presented some program of theirs, I would never call it a
00:29:57program, because we don't have a program, I even tried to get to
00:30:01the pages, and "I apologize to my colleagues from other
00:30:05parties if I didn't study it well, but what
00:30:08I can say is
00:30:11uh, first I will refer to the
00:30:14theory that the entire infrastructure for waste management
00:30:17should be public, there is no successful waste
00:30:21management in any country in the world where
00:30:24there is no, of course, a clear framework, good control and
00:30:28supervision, but also the participation
00:30:31of the private sector, that's why it's called waste
00:30:35management, because there is no management without
00:30:38economy, otherwise, we and
00:30:41SDP promote such theses and theories, I have
00:30:45seen in other departments,
00:30:48that is, for example some socialist
00:30:51way of thinking which with which I do not think
00:30:55is efficient, not at all, the other thing is...
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