City of Zrenjanin issues permit for Linglong warehouse without EIA

The complaint was filed with the Vojvodina Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection against the decision of the Zrenjanin city administration.

In early April, the city of Zrenjanin allowed Linglong to build a non-hazardous waste storage facility as part of its future tire factory, without conducting an environmental study - which is in violation of the law, said the NGO in a press release.

The complaint seeks that the city's decision be annulled and that it be established that the City of Zrenjanin does not have authority to decide on this Linglong's request.

Also emphasized in the complaint is the need to conduct a comprehensive, integrated environmental impact assessment study of the Linglong tire factory, “which the Chinese investor has been avoiding for years,” said the Gradjanski Preokret NGO.