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CROATIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT AFTER SOCIALISM AND WAR

REPORT OF A VISIT HELD IN MAY 1996
TO ASSESS THE NEEDS AND CAPACITV

OF THE CROATIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

AMSTERDAM, OCTOBER 1996 AUTHORS : MARGA VERHEIJE, PAUL KOSTERINK STICHTING MILIEUKONTAKT OOST-EUROPA

The foundation is an initiative of: Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) Landelijk Milieu Overleg (LMO, National Environmental Forum) Stichting Natuur en Milieu (SNM, Netherlands Societv for Nature and Environment! Vereniging Milieudefensie (FoE-Netherlands) World Information Service on Environment and Development (WISE)

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This report gives an outsider's view on the development and present situation of the environmental movement in Croatian society. It is a reflection of dozens of discussions which the authors had with active people from the movement and environmental experts from 26 April tili 2 May, 1996. Purpose of the discussions was to get a good insight view on the needs and capacity of the Croatian environmental movement, and to assess the possibilities for support. The study could never have been successfully completed without the participation of many individuals and NGOs in Croatia. AH persons we met provided us with information and openly shared their opinion with us. From many sides we received support in making practical arrangements. But above ali we were surprised by the hospitality and friendship we received. We especially would like to thank here the following persons: - Igor Markovic our guide, interpreter and companion during our trips outside Zagreb. - Toni Vidan and Kata Japuncic who helped with making arrangements and helped to put ali the different stories we heard into perspective. - Lydia Pavic who gave a good, general overview of the Croatian movement. - Vladimir Lay who showed us beautiful Istria and increased our understanding of the social situation in which Croatian environmental groups have to operate. - The staff of the Society of Improvement of the Quality of Life (especially Nenad Maljkovic and Zlatko Pejic) who invited us to come to Croatia and \velcomed us during the Green Forum. - Joep Wijnands of the embassy of the Netherlands and Robert Dijksterhuis of the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs who made it financial possible to make this study. They also gave us valuable background information on the political situation in Croatia.

CONTENTS
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CHAPTER l
1.1 1.2

INTRODUCTION
CAUSE AND GOAL OF THE VlSIT

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.1.3

CHOICE OF Visrrs ABOUT THE REPORT TOWARDSINDEPENDENCE POLITICAL SITUATION ENVIRONMENTAL SlTUATION
Main Features Tendeny During Last Decades

CHAPTER 2
2.1 2.2 2.3

SOME RELEVANT COUNTRV CHARACTERISTICS 7

7 7 8
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2.4

MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Drinking Water and Rivers Coastal Waters Soil Air Forests Natural areas

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CHAPTER 3
3.1

ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
HlSTORY

3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5

SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES CURRENT NGO'LANDSCAPE' AcnvrnES OF NGOs

NGO COOPERATION

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Croatian Green Alliance Green Forum KRUG-NET Working group of action oriented NGOs Other forms of eooperation (second-hand Information)

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3.6
CHAPTER 4
4.1 4.2

EXPRESSED NEEDS

SUPPORT TO ENVIRONMENTAL NGOs

SUPPORT FROM FOREIGN SOURCES SUPPORT FROM DOMESTIC SOURCES

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CHAPTER 5

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Role of Milieukontakt Oost-Europa

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ANNEXES:

I: H: IH: IV: V:

List of Organisations and individuals met Short description of NGOs which were met List of Croatian Environmental NGOs MapofCroatia Used literature

CHAPTERl
1.1

INTRODUCTION

CAUSEANDGOALOFTHEVISIT

The direct cause of the visit was a request from the Croatian NGO Society for Improvement of Quality of Life (SIQL) for support from the Dutch support program "MATRA", run by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and (in the ae of Croatia) the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Zagreb. The request from SIQL for support concerned the project called "KRUG" to set up a service centre for Croatian NGOs. Condition from MATRA to support any project is the participation of a Dutch organisation. Therefore Milieukontakt Oost-Europa was asked to become involved in the "KRUG" project of SIQL. Milieukontakt Oost-Europa is an independent organisation founded in 1988 by four Dutch and one international environmental NGOs to support environmental movements in Central and Eastern Europe, and to stimulate bilateral contacts betvveen organisations from the Netherlands and Central and Eastern Europe. Milieukontakt is currently active in 10 CEE countries, but did not work in Croatia since 1993. ., In order to assess if and how Milieukontakt could give a constructive contribution to the "KRUG" project, or in general to the environmental movement, we noticed that we first need to know what the current capacity and needs of the movement are, especially after the rapid changes due to the postsocialism circumstances and the Vugoslav war. Therefore we paid a visit to Croatian organisations and individuals familiar with and active in the environmental movement. Thus, the goal of the visit, held from 26 April tili 2 May 1996, was to get a good inside vievv on the needs and capacity of the Croatian environmental movement, and to assess the possibilities for support.

1.2

CHOICEOFVlSITS

Because of limited available time we had to choose which organisations to visit in order to get a representative picture of the movement. Apart from NGOs in Zagreb, visits to NGOs in the northwestern (akovec) and \vestern part (Bakar, Rijeka, Opatija, Pula and Oprtalj) of Croatia were arranged (see also map in Annex IV). Travelling to the South-East and North-East was not possible in the given time. However, the visit coincided with the annual Green Forum, where several NGOs from outside Zagreb could be met (Osijek, Dubrovnik and ibenik). One of the authors paid visits to environmental NGOs ali over Croatia in October 1994, through vvhich second-hand information about other NGOs and regions could be put into perspective. Most of the NGOs vvhich were met can be considered to be the 'new generation' of environmental organisations in Croatia; they mostly have young, enthusiastic members who started to become active during the last few years. Authors are aware that apart from these NGOs based on the younger generation, there are many other type of environmental NGOs vvhich could not be visited. Thev are shortly described in chapter 3. Next to visiting NGOs, we paid visits to other organisations or individuals dealing with the environmental movement: - Mrs. Lidija Pavic, Croatian office of Regional Environmental Center (REC); - Mr. Velemir Pravdic, Professor at the Center for Marine Research and member of Croatian Ecological Society; - Mrs. Branka-Marija Muvrin, radio journalist of environmental programs; - Mrs. Vesna Terelic, active in the peace movement and member of REC Local Advisory Board; - Dr. Inge Perko-eparovic, Professor at the Political Faculty and former president of Croatian Green Alliance; and

- Mr. Joep Wijnands, Royal Netherlands Embassy (who runs part of the MATRA program for supporting civil initiatives in Croatia). Unfortunately the visit to the State Agency for Environmental Protetion of the Ministry responsible for environment didn't take place because of a double appointment from their side. A complete lists of organisations and individuals met can be found in Annex I.

1.3

ABOUT THE REPORT

We gave this report, which is a reflection of the visit, the title "Croatian Environmental Movement after Socialism and War; Report ofa Visit Held in May 1996 to Assess the Needs and Capacity ofthe Croatian Environmental Movement". The input to the report is a mixture of information from publications, discussions and own observations. Especially that last ingredient (information from ovvn observations) gives this report a subjective character. This is done on purpose: in order to understand the situation in Croatia better, we need to interpret the information and put it into perspective. We realise that we might have misunderstood or misinterpreted certain things. We would appreciate you teli us if and where we did, or would like to hear your opinion. Because this report is not meant to be a factual study, but rather a starting point hovv best to support the environmental movement in a developing civic society. The contents ofthe report is as follows. A good understanding ofthe development and present situation of the movement should be seen in the light of the environmental, social and political conditions. Therefore, we first give a short overview of these external factors the movement has to deal with in chapter 2. In chapter 3 we take a closer look to the environmental movement; this chapter is primarily based upon the visits to the variou organisations. Chapter 4 gives a brief overvievv of the support that environmental organisations already receive or can turn to. In chapter 5 we come to the conclusions and recommendations. In the annexes please find data such as lists of NGOs and organisations met, a map of Croatia and a list of some used literature. Finally, we apologise that we did not manage to use ali the proper Croatian characters in the Croatian names in this report. The characters C, C, and Z had to be denoted as C, C, and Z, respectively.

CHAPTER 2 SOME RELEVANT COUNTRV CHARACTERISTICS

In this chapter we give some characteristics of the country which are of direct influence of the development of the environmental movement, such as the effects of the war in Yugoslavia over the past years, the current political situation and the environmental problems the movement is confronted with. The references to the used literature is in italics between brackets; a list of used literature can be found in Annex V.

2.1

TOWARDSINDEPENDENCE

After the fali of the Habsburg-Hungarian empire (First World War), the territory of Croatia became part of the newly formed state Yugoslavia. After the Second World War the partians under leadership of Josip Broz (Tito) formed the communist party which ruled Yugoslavia since. Together with Slovenia, Croatia was among the vvealthier republics of Vugoslavia. Important factor in this was tourism, which boomed especially along the Adriatic coastline during the seventies. Yugoslavia preserved its natural assets and developed its environmental policy quite well during communist rule, especially when compared to other Central and Eastern European countries. This, added with the own political course (independent from Soviet Union), relative freedom of travelling and speech, and the existence of some kind of opposition, makes Yugoslavia uncomparable to any of the other Central and Eastern European countries, also when it comes to the environmental situation and development of civil initiatives. Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. The Serbian population of Krajina rebelled against this independence by proclaiming its own Serbian Republic of Krajina. A civil war broke out the same year. Altogether about one-third of the country was occupied by Croat Serbs, including the Krajina and vvestern and eastern Slavonia. The Croatian national army failed to reconquering the occupied territories at the beginning of 1993. Shortly after a truce was agreed upon which lasted tili 1995. The Croatian army managed to reconquer most of the territories in 1995: vvestern Slavonia in May and the entire Krajina in August. To date, a diplomatic solution is still sought for Serb held eastern Slavonia. The civil war had of course immense impacts on the country, also affecting environment related issues. For instance, the annual inflation rate in 1993 was around 1500%, and 40% of public spending went to defence [European Forum]. This left no room for necessary investments for e.g. municipal waste water treatment facilities and environmental policy. Three national parks and great part of Croatia's national values were in occupied territories, some of the areas were damaged or destroyed, others not taken care of (this also had positive effects because pressure from tourism ame to a halt). Some industrial objects were hit or destroyed during attacks, such as the Sisak refmery and the povver plant in Osijek, in both cases oil spills occuired. The direct impact on settlements was tremendous, many of them are completely destroyed. Last consequence we mention here, which is of direct influence to the environmental NGOs activities, is that political and public attention was drawn primarily to the civil war and its effects, leaving little space for dealing with environmental problems.

2.2

POLITICAL SITUATION

The Croatian parliament is dominated by HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) of which President Tudjman is also the founder and party leader. HDZ gained 45.2% of the votes in the October 1995 elections, and through the complicated electoral system has a majority in the House of Representatives [European Forum]. Hence HDZ does not need a coalition party to form a government. HDZ is also the major party in local governments. Through the one-sided political situation it is often hard for opposition parties and interesi groups to influence policy, or even communicate with decision makers both on the national as local level.

The government controls almost ali the media; television, radio and most of the printed press is either run, controlled or censored by the government. The Croatian government so far has made only minor steps to privatise state property; most companies and services are still state owned.

2.3

ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION

Maio Features
The Republic of Croatia territory covers 56*538 sq. km., it comprises three main regions; the Pannonic zone, the mountainous zone, and the littoral zone. The pannonic part of Croatia comprises the northern part of the region, with the Sava, Drava, and Danube rivers as its boundaries. The soil is, for the most part, very fertile, suitable for farming, animal husbandry and livestock breeding, its parts covered with well-preserved, highly valuable forest vegetation. A part of the area concerned is characterised by the greatest concentration of Croatian cities and industries. The mountainous area occupies the centra! part of Croatia, which is also the most forested one. It is the most sparsely populated, least developed area. The littoral area is a relatively narrow coastal zone by the Adriatic Sea. Tourism is especially developed in this littoral zone. [National Report] Croatia's most important natural resources are fertile soil, forests, surface and underground watefs, the Adriatic Sea, and numerous monumental areas, protected for their specific features and value. The most important energy soiirces include crude oil and natural gas, found in the Pannonic basin and low-lying coastal regions, supplying about two-third of Croatia's requirments in this field [Vidan, pers.]. With the exception of bauxite, no considerable reserves of metal raw materials have been registered. However, there are relatively abundant reserves of nonmetal raw materials. [National Report]

Tendenv During Last Decades The Croatian environment was little affected by negative influences before the 60's. Since that time, however, industrialisation increased rapidly, and - like in other European countries - without taking concern about the negative effects on the environment and natural values. The Croatian Republic in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia developed relatively high standards in environmental legislation during the 70's and 80'. However, governmental bodies were not able to counter the environmental pressure from rapid economic development completely with effective environmental policy and measures. Nevertheless, a relatively high degree of public and expert awareness during the last two decades resulted in some positive examples such as adopting a moratorium on building nuclear power plants, excellent mainainance of "Plitvika jezera" National Park, a great number of protected areas and relatively strong monitoring. [Vidan] During the last five years new environmental problems emerged. As mentioned previously, the Yugosiav war had direct negative impact to environmental protection (such as uncontrolled waste disposal, water pollution prevention, transborder problems), or directly damaged nature (e.g. destrution of parks and protected areas) and environment (leakages of chemicals from destructed indrusty, esp. near Sisak). Now that Croatia builds up its damaged regions and economic development is increasing rapidly, the pressure to natural and environmental conditions is also increasing. Examples are the construction of the motorway Zagreb-Rijeka through a nature area, the planned construction of a riew power plant ("Plomin II") and planned dams in the Drava river.

2.4

MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Croatia can be considered a relativelv clean countrv - when compared to Central and Eastern European, and most Western European countries - with many environmental problems. The natural values are rather well protected, though the pressure on nature and environment from economic development is mounting rapidly. In this chapter a brief overvievv of the main problems. Drinking Water and Rivers Despite deficit surface water potentials in her karst part, Croatia has favourable condition for satisfactory and long-term water supplies for urban centres, settlements, and industry. The quality of drinking water is generally good. Because of draught in summers, there is sometimes shortage of drinking water in the coastal and karst areas. The quality of vvaters, however, is increasingly endangered by still insufficient waste water treatments, the dumping of major part of dangerous wastes, and an inefficient control. [National Report] The quality of Croatian rivers are characterised as 15% being of 'good quality'', 60% as 'fair quality'2, 15% as 'poor quality'3, and 10% as 'bad quality'4 [Europe's Environment]. The major rivers, Sava, Drava and Danube, with its tributaries are moderately to heavily polluted. The Sava is the most polluted river ('poor to bad' quality), especially because of untreated waste waters from Zagreb and the industrial city Sisak, and to a lesser extend from the cities Slavonski Brod and Bosanski Brod. The quality of the Drava river is 'fair to poor', while the Danube river on Croatian territory is characterised as being of 'fair' quality. [Vidan]

Coastal Waters The vvaters of the Adriatic Sea along the Croatian shore are generally of good quality. Over 95% of the volume of sea water is extremely well-preserved [National Report]. Hovvever, because of discharge of untreated sewage waters near residential areas, and especially because of industrial pollution and catastrophies near major harbors and industrial areas (Pula, Rijeka, Bakar Bay, Split) the vvater quality in some spots is of poor or sometimes even bad quality. The shallovv vvaters (average depth up to 20 m) of the northern part of the Adriatic Sea (near Rijeka and Bakar) is the most threatened part [National Report]. It is threatened by intensive economic activities and pollution from Italian coastal vvaters. A major oil spill occurred in March 1996 in Bakar Bay. The Bay near Rijeka is often unsuitable as svvimming vvater.

Soil In the Pannonian region (the fertile part of Croatia) soil degradation occurs predominantly because of urbanisation and intensive agriculture. The use of fertilisers and chemicals is mostly uncontrolled. The soils of the karstic area along the Adriatic coast are degraded mainly by erosion. Though these are natural processes, the major cause of these erosions is of logging throughout the last centuries. Acidification of the soil is nation-wide and primarily from transboundary origin. [National Report, Vidan]

'good quality': river reaches with nutrient-poor water, low levels of organic matter; saturated with dissolved oxygen; rich inveitebrate fauna; suitable spanwning ground for salmonoid fish 'fair quality": river reaches with moderate organic pollution and nutrient content; good oxygen conditions; rich flora and fauna; large fish population ; 'poor quality': river reaches vvith heavy orgvanic pollution; oxygen concentration usually lo\v; sediment locally anaerobic; occasional blooming of organisms insensitive to oxygen depletion; smoli or absent fish population; periodic fish kili 'bad quality': river reaches with excessive organic pollution; prolonged periods of very low oxygen concentration or total deoxygenation; anaerobic sediment, severe toxic input; devoid of fish

Air
Up to 60% of air pollution in Croatia comes from transboundary sources [National Report]. Other sources are heavy industry, thermoelectric povver plants and traffic. The most important polutants are sulfor dioxide, smoke and specific contamination in the industrial regions (specially Bakar Bay and Kutina). The most affected area is the region of Gorski Kotar (near Rijeka), mainly by acid precipitation and sedimentation of sulphates and nitrates. High air pollution levels have been measured in Rijeka, Zagreb, Sisak, ibenik and Split. Only the Plomin Power Plant (on Istria peninsula) uses coal, while the other power plants are mainly working with oil which results in lower pollution compared to coal driven plants. [Cari in: REC, Report ofVisit..., Vidan]

Forests 36% per cent of Croatia's total area is covered by forests, which ranks her among the fairly forested countries in Europe. Almost 50% of mountain forest are subject to die-back due to the effect of acid rains. According to estimates, Croatia's forest land is annually reduced by a. 1,000 ha (approx. 0.05%) because of urban settlement growth, infrastructure building and the excessive felling of trees. [National Report]

Natural areas Croatia is famous because of its generally well-preserved natural values. The coastal zone and its hinterland are built of a specific geomorphological material, karst. The seven National Parks of Croatia lay in this area and the coastal region. Besides, there are over three hundred specially protected areas (such as nature reserves, forest parks, outstanding landscapes, and natural monuments) ali over Croatia, comprising approximately 7% of Croatian territory. The past war did some damage to natural areas. During the war many protected areas and two national parks vvere in occupied territory, so their maintainance and protection was deferred. Some looting took place, nature and (touristic) infrastructure were damaged or destroyed [National Report, Bralic]

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CHAPTER 3 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

In this chapter we give a description of the development and current state of the environmental movement in Croatia. First of ali a brief historv will be given of the movement. This is mostlv based upon an article by Vesna Terelic (from: "NGO Directorv for Central and Eastern Europe"; Regional Environmental Center). A short summary of the NGOs which were met during the visit is put down in Annex II.

3.1

HISTORV

First civil organisations in Croatia were nature conservation initiatives, mountaineer and scientific associations. For example, in 1874 the Mountaineering Association of Croatia was founded, in 1885 the nature conservation foundation "Hrvatsko Prirodoslovno Drutvo", and in 1898thecitizen organisation "Dub" from Dubrovnik. These organisations were successful in convincing decision makers to protect the nature; several nature reserves such as Plitvice lakes and Velebit mountain were established in 1920s, while several plant and animal species were proclaimed protected. While nature conservation was the main area of activities of civil and scientific organisations, environment only became a topic through international incidents in the seventies and eighties. The first initiatives to tackle environmental problems stem from the early seventies through preparations for the Stockholm Conference on Environment and Protection. Scientific and civil organisations demanded urgent action to stop pollution of the Adriatic Sea after round table discussions tovvards the Stockholm Conference. The second period of civil initiatives was after the Chernobyl disaster. For the first time people openly spoke against communist policy; they demanded use of renevvable energy sources instead. Under strong pressure of some hundreds of local initiatives, supported by the media, the government put a moratorium on nuclear power plants in 1989. Several organisations and initiatives from the anti-nuclear movement continued their activities to deal with other environmental issues. The massive reaction of the public on the nuclear issue, and opinion polis at the end of the nineties made it clear that people are concerned with environmental issues. It made it also easier for local governments to introduce for instance recycling programs in Zagreb and Osijek. Even during the war the public remained concerned with their environment, exemplified by the success of a 'Green Telephone' in Zagreb, run by Green Action Zagreb. The nationalistic wave in Yugoslavia started around this same period, eventually leading to the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. The war put an end to the emerging environmental movement in Croatia. Activists either had to struggle to fmd necessary means for existence, were drafted or became active in the humanitarian and peace work. Some fifty organisations remained (more or less) active during the war. The most active and best known NGOs during the war period were Zelena Akcija Zagreb (Green Action Zagreb), Society Improvement of Quality of Life (SIQL), Croatian Green Alliance (alliance of most Croatian environmental NGOs), SVANIMIR and "Lijepa Naa" from Katela (Society "Our Beautiful Country" from Katela). Other organisations dealing with environmental issues during the war period were scientific organisations such as Croatian Ecological Society and Croatian Ornithological Society, and small local groups in some twenty different cities and towns.
3.2 SPECIFIC ClRCUMSTANCES

The development of the environmental movement can not be seen vvithout taking into account the circumstances the NGOs are in. Where in other Central and Eastern European countries NGO activities boomed after the political changes around 1990, (newly formed) Croatian NGOs were faced with the effects of the war.
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We already described some effects of the war. The war had direct impact on the environment (such as damaged natural areas and industrial sites causing pollution). But maybe even more important were the many indirect effects. International institutions or donors active in other CEE countries didn't run programmes in Groatia or concentrated on humanitarian aid. This and the fact that Croatia is not a PHARE-country means that grant giving programmes for environmental groups are limited (for instance, Croatian NGOs can't get funding from the PHARE Democracy Programme). At the same time prices in Croatia are much higher than in other CEE countries. One reason for this high prices is the introduction of special taxes to cover costs created by the war. NGOs also have to pay laxes on donations and granls they receive. The Croatian government tries to restrict NGO activities. One clear sign are the attempts to change the law on non-profit organisations. Under the new law registration of new NGOs is not longer an administrative affair but will be a polilical decision. Some organisations already now have problems with getting registrated or opening an office because they don't get permission from the Ministry of Public Affairs. NGOs also meet problems when they want to open a bank account. Although the Croatian press is censored and controlled by the government, the environmental NGOs still have good contacts wilh journalisls.The press coverage of environmental NGO activities is extensive. One explanali6n might be that environmental activities are less controversial than activities of the peace movement. JLJnderstandable during the war the general public showed little interesi for environmental mattersr. Several people told us that this has changed. Environmental groups get a good response on iheir activities. People are willing to sign petitions and show interesi when groups have street actions to bring environmental issues under the attention of passers-by. Croatian people are aware of the fact that their country has a very rich and valuable nature. They feel the need to proteci this nalure. Two aspecls partly explain why Ihe changes from a communisl ruled sociely lowards a civil society is in principle nol as big a step as it was for mosl of Ihe other Central and Eastern European counlries in transition. Firstly, under Tito's rule, compared to olher CEE counlries, ihere was relalive freedbm for civil inilialives in Yugoslavia The basis of Ihe Federal Republic of Vugoslavia was in faci 'self-governmenl' on Ihe local level. In Ihis sense, Croalian people have become 'familiar' with civil inilialives already before Ihe collapse of communisl rule in Cenlral and Easlern European counlries around 1989/90, even Ihough mosl inilialives were controlled by communist rule. The response of the public to the Chernobyl disaster, menlioned above, exemplifies Ihe relalive freedom of speech in Tugoslavia al ihal lime. Secondly, Croatia has a high level of educalion and maintained inlensive contacls vvilhin Vugoslavia and abroad. People were hardly reslricled lo Iravel abroad, so Ihat internalional conlacls were mainlained by for inslance scienlific organisations throughout the communisl era. The inlense internalional conlacls gave Croatians more possibilities to discuss issues wilh foreign colleagues.
3.3

CURRENT NGO 'LANDSCAPE'

In 1990 Ihere were aboul 60 NGOs working on environmenlal issues regislered under The Law on Associations, a law from 1982. Currenlly Ihere are aboul 150 NGOs in Croatia dealing primaruy wilh environmenlal issues (a lii of NGOs compiled by REC can be found in Annex III). Roughly half of ihem can be considered lo be aclive at the moment, the olher half had difficullies in iheir existence during vvartime, or are not visibly active. To simplify the picture, Ihe environmenlal NGOs can roughly be distinguished inlo three lypes of organisations... One lype of organisations are the expert based socieliesJThese nalional socielies were already formed in Vugoslav limes, and ils members moslly have a scienlific background. Some of ihem have a role in advising the governmenl on specific issues such as Ihe Croalian Ecological Sociely. They do research and publish the resulls. Asked by Ihe governmenl or on Iheir own iniliative they develop stralegies and plans how to prolecl nalure and environmenl. Several of ihese socielies run projects in
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which public awareness raising also plays a role. These projects are often nature conservation projects. The most active societies in this sense are Croatian Society for the Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage "Svanimir", Croatian Ornithological Society and Croatian Ecological Society. They remained active during the war period. The second type of organisations we distinguish here form the majority. These are the NGOs which are usually established around 1989/90 or even long before and whose members are often older, locally influential people.r These NGOs deal with environmental education and local issues such as nature conservation, municipal waste and water protection. Type of activities are for instance educational programs at schools or summer camps, waste programs, tree planting or clean-up actions, lobbying at local level. Among these are Eko Rijeka, Lijepa Naa from Katela, Ecological Society of urevac, Green Istria (Pula), Association of the Friends of Nature 'DUB' (Dubrovnik), and Green Osijek, to mention a few active ones. The last type of organisations which we distinguish are the NGOs whose members are from the, younger generation. Their focus is on environmental awareness raising of the public at large. They not only work on a local scale but are also interested in global environmental issues and international cooperation. With their progressive activities they want to contribute to a democratic and environmental friendly society. Examples are Green Action Zagreb, Zeleni Mir (Dubrovnik), Environmental Society 'Zmergo' (Opatija), 'Nobilis' (akovec) and 'Stribor' (Rijeka). As a consequence of any simplification, these three groups we distinguish are not strict and some organisations do not fit into it. To mention two significant ones, the Society for Improvement of Quality of Life (SIQL; Zagreb) targets their activities on the one hand towards consumers asking for more environmental friendly behaviour and on the other hand tovvards producers. The Croatian Environmental Education Centre (Zagreb) gathers experts on education to develop environmental education in Croatia and gives courses.

3.4

ACITVITIES OF NGOS

As was mentioned before, many NGOs were formed around 1990 when many people took up the task to improve the environmental conditions in their neighbourhood. Due to the war period their activities have gone down from 1991 tili 1995. Half of the NGOs could not manage to continue their activities during this period, especially those which were directly affected by the war (Slavonia, Krajina, and South-eastern part of Croatia). The expert based societies remained quie active. They organised for instance conferences, meetings, panel discussions where also other NGOs participated in. A few of these organisations were especially successful in concrete projects, usually in the field of nature conservation. One should realise that even though there were fights going on in the Krajina and Slavonia regions, most of the country was unaffected, and daily life followed quite normal patterns. That includes the problems you might expect in the environmental field. Hence, the majority of the NGOs which were still active during the war period \vorked on local issues (solid waste disposal, clean-up actions, pollution prevention, nature protection) and educating the young. Green Action Zagreb and SIQL had a significant role to put national issues on the (political) agenda. From discussions with the NGOs, REC Local Office, a board member of REC Local Grants Program and other environmental activists the picture was confirmed that during the last year a boom of NGO activities can be seen. NGOs which were not or hardly active in the previous years have picked up their activities again. Moreover, the impact and quality of their projects have increased considerably. This was not only mentioned by several people we met, but we could also experience this in our visits to the NGOs. More people became involved in these NGOs during the last year, and most notably the impact of their activities are much bigger then the years before. With eye-catching activities they draw the attention of the public and politicians to the environmental problems. There were for instance demonstrations and actions organised because of major oil spills in Bakar Bay, a

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planned highway Zagreb-Rijeka through the nature of Gorski Kotar (North of Rijeka), a planned coalburned povver plant in Istria ("Plomin II"), and against French nuclear tests in the Pacific. Also activities of Iocally vvorking NGOs have increased.

3.5

NGO COOPERATION

Croatian Green AHiance About thirty NGOs have joined the Croatian Green AHiance, the national network of environmental NGOs, which was established in 1990. The AHiance was formed to improve the cooperation and communication among NGOs, and be the 'spokesperson' of the movement. We met the former as well as the current president of the AHiance. The AHiance is not working optimally nowadays. Several reasons were given by different people we met during the visits. An important reason seems to be the fact that the AHiance does not have a permanent office or staff. The ,gffectiveness of the AHiance mostlv depends on the chairperson and secretary, who are very busy people any way1 What we mlssed was a clear profile and strategv^ The main activity of the Alliance this year is to organise the annual meeting. The goal and expected results are not yet set. The member organisatiohs (who in fact form the Alliance) acknowledge the lack of a common strategy but do not see how they can impose improvements. The individual NGOs do not see it as their task to take initiatives for this, because they are afraid to be criticized for it. For a few years already there seems to be this deadlock^Possible improvements mentioned by some people were to establish a permanent staffed office. From this office activities could be organised such as producing a joint newsletter, training sessions, round table discussions on topics, etc. Some people doubt hovvever if the Alliance can be reanimated at ali. To us it seems that it would at least need some people or organisations who will put in renewed energy in order to bring it alive. We noticed thaf the mediocre vvorking of the Alliance hampers other initiatives to improve cooperation and communication among NGOs. When we asked why NGOs do not organise more joint activities for instance, or communicate more intensively, then often they replied that this is the task of the Green Alliance and that this is the reason why the Alliance was set up. Green Forum The Society for Improvement of Quality of Life (SIQL) has taken initiatives to improve the cooperation and communication, by organising a Green Forum every year. During this two-days event the NGOs discuss certain topics with governmental officials and experts (this year about energv), and discuss issues which concerns the movement (this year a.o. a proposed project of SIQL to establish a Netvvork for Development of Citizen's Organizations, KRUGj see next paragraph). We had the opportunity to join this Green Forum. The main importance of Green Forum seems to be that it is one of the few chances that NGOs from ali over Croatia gather together, meet each other and can discuss common issues. Due to limited fmancial support for travel reimbursement only a few NGOs from outside Zagreb could participate this year. As usual at meetings and conferences, most intensive communication was done in between the different sessions in the corridors. The discussions during the sessions were rather guiet, and not as livelv as we experienced in national NGO meetings in other Central and Eastem European countries._As was mentioned by some of the participants, probably because people consider the Green Forum to be a SIQL event rather then a national NGO meeting of ali NGOs. Other reason mentioned for the quiet discussions was that it's not in the tradition of Croatians to have a free and open discussion in public, but rather on a personal level. Still, ali the participants we spoke find the Green Forum an important event. For the success of the Green Forum in coming years it might be a good idea to involve more NGOs i n the organisatioo and
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facilitation of the different sessions and share responsibility for the whole Green Forum. The different sessions could be in srnaller groups (approximately 12 persons) on specific topics, in order to make discussions more lively and focused tovvards a clear result and appointments for follow-up activities.

KRUG-NET SIQL wants to establish KRUG-NET (Netvvork for Development of Citizen's Organisations Croatian Assistance Team). The aim of the project is to strengthen civil initiatives (so not only environmental NGOs, but also other NGOs) by providing Information, advice, training, the publication of a nevvsletter and directories and the organisation of annual meetings. SIQL discussed their idea with some environmental NGOs and introduced their plans during the Green Forum. Most environmental NGOs have their doubts about the project. They don't consider KRUG-NET as a joint activity especially set up to serve them. They also seem to have more demand for training and services especially targeted tovvards environmental NGOs. When we discussed the project with SIQL we advised them to involve other organisations in the execution of the different tasks. This means that responsibilities will be shared and equipment and staff will be stationed not only in the SIQL office.

Working group of action oriented NGOs Several action oriented NGOs of mostly young people have organised a few joint actions during the last year. One was a protest march against the planned construction of a huge coal-burned power plant called 'Plomin IF, referring to the existing one on Istria peninsula called 'Plomin'. The other action was to protect the nature area of Gorski Kotar which is threatened by construction of a motorway from Zagreb to Rijeka. In this action people walked in a protest march of some 200 kilometre from Rijeka to Zagreb. The third one was a demonstration at the French Embassy against nuclear testing in the Pacific. The actions received a lot of media attention. The experiences with these joint activities are very positive according to ali NGOs involved. Last months plans are being discussed among these NGOs (i.e. Green Action Zagreb. Stribor. Zmergo and Zeleni Mir, and possiblv Nobilis as well) to continue the cooperation on a more permanent base. The groups admit that the focus of their activities is ad-hoc and chosen in an impulsive way. To have more impact and lasting effect the groups have to create a more structural programme and strategy.

Other forms of cooperation (second-han information) 'Lijepa Naa' (Our Beautiful Country) is an alliance of local chapters in different towns ali over Croatia. Some, not ali, of these chapters concentrate on environmental issues. The best known of them is Lijepa Naa from Katela near Split. According to some other environmental NGOs, Lijepa Naa as national organisation maintains such close connections vvith the government that their independence is threatened. Incidentally there is also cooperation among NGOs on specific issues. such as on energv, Earth Day events, nature conservation and water pollution. These instances of cooperation have occurred less frequently over the past few years, mainly because fewer NGOs were active during the war period. Environmental activists, however, are familiar wjth each other's activities and the (informal) contacts are numerous. The REC organised a series of three workshops in December 1995 where NGOs discussed common issues such as on communication in and among NGOs and NGO management. Together vvith the Centre for Development of Non-profit Organisations a series of meetings were held with NGO leaders to give input to draft laws oq non-profit organisations. REC has set aside some funding for holding vvorkshops on specific topics during 1996.

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EXPRESSED NEEDS

During our discussions specific needs were expressed by several organisations. First of ali the lack of training possibilities was mentioned. People who participated in the training organised by Green Action Zagreb in 1993 (in cooperation with Nick Allen of Environmental Training Program and Milieukontakt), referred to these three sessions being a very inspiring way to get activities going in the organisation and make new people enthusiastic to become involved in NGOs (two new groups were formed as a direct result of the training that time). The training should be organised for different people from different organisations. In this way the communication betvveen the NGOs would improve, and new ideas and plans could come out of it. Topics of training which were mentioned were fundraising, planning and carrying out activities, communication skills and newsletters/media. Most of the NGOs we met expressed to have difficulties to get expert support, and reliable and relevant information on the issue they work on. In some cases they did have back-up from external people who have some kind of expertise on their issue. Relations betvveen NGOs, universities and governmental bodies have to improve. It was often mentioned that Croatia needs to get her place back on the international scale. Because of the war, international contacts have decreased drastically. Also environmental NGOs have maintained only limited contacts abroad. Only very few international organisations and embassies had activities in Croatia until last year. NGOs expressed the need and wish to intensify international contacts (again).

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CHAPTER 4 SUPPORT TO ENVIRONMENTAL NGOs

In this chapter we give a short overview of the support that environmental NGOs can turn to. We devided the support into two parts: support coming from abroad and support from domestic sources.

4.1

SUPPORT FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

Until 1995 the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) was the only substantial source for getting funding for environmental NGOs activities. Starting in 1991 Central and Eastern European NGOs (so Croatian NGOs included) could apply from REC's headquarters in Budapest for grants. Starting end of 1993 an additional 'Local Grants ' fund became available for Croatian NGOs. Croatian NGOs can make applications in Croatian language. Approximately 30-40,000 USD a year is available. An Advisory Board, consisting of 6 people who are from the movement or have environmental expertise, decides on avvarding grants. They give priority to projects that involve more people and raise public awareness and to activities that involve more NGOs. Next to the funding service, REC Budapest also provides training and exchange programs to Croatian NGOs. Several young members from Croatian NGOs for instance participated in their training program in Budapest. Soros Foundation in Croatia supports the development of a civic society in general. Although Soros Foundation in principle also supports environmental NGOs, in practice only very few of them received funding for their (environmental) projects. In these cases it usually concerhed newsletters or publications and environmental education. The American Agencv for International Development (US AID) has a program to support civil initiatives and environmental activities. They financed a project on waste minimisation and one to establish an environmental information netvvork. Both projects will be stationed at the REC Local Office. They are not specifically targeted to NGOs. In 1995 the Dutch Embassv started a program MATRA-KAP (a Dutch abbreviation for 'societal transformation - small embassy projects') in Croatia for supporting civil initiatives and nongovernmental organisations. Environmental NGOs are among the organisations which are eligible for receiving funding. A few of them (a.o. Society for Improvement of Quality of Life, Green Istria and Croatian Environmental Education Centre) already received grants. USIS (United States Information Service) started a program in 1995 for supporting civil initiatives, financed by the American government. This program involves performing training courses, providing funds, supporting improvement of civil netvvorks and eommunication. These services are in principle also available for environmental NGOs. Authors were told from second hand that environmental NGOs haven't managed to get substantial support yet. Since 1986 Euronatur from Germany supports nature protection prpjects along the rivers Sava and Drava and other nature areas, in close cooperation with (mainly) Croatian governmental agencies. A few NGOs from these areas are involved in these activities, such as from urevac, Osijek and Lonske Polje. Support from Euronatur to these NGOs usually consists of working together with them in the nature protection efforts. At the moment of writing up this report, the British Embassv in Croatia started to make Environmental Know How Fund available for Croatia. The fund conceras mainly with transfer of knowledge in the environmental field. They show interesi in contacts with environmental NGOs. Other foreign organisations or institutions incidentally support the environmental movement. For instance Milieukontakt Oost-Europa vvorked together with Green Action Zagreb and Environmental Training Programme to deliver three workshops for young environmentalists and members of NGOs in 1993.

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SUPPORT FROM DOMESTIC SOURCES

Generally speaking, there is no structural support from Croatian governmental structures for environmental NGOs. In practice hovvever, local governments as well as some ministries do give support to many NGOs; this kind of support is incidental though. Support is given either as funds, or as in-kind contributions such as providing free office space or conference rooms, use of means of communication and printing facilities, etc. Previously, the Ministrv of Civil Engineering and Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Education and Culture provided fmancial support. Amounts tili 1994 were up to 23,000 USD per year total. The Ministry of Environment gave funds for environmental NGOs during last two years which was administered by REC's Local Office in Zagreb. In our discussions with the different people during our visit, it became clear that local governments often contributed to the activities of the NGO on an ad-hoc basis. For instance, the Zagreb municipality finances a substantial part of the costs for Green Telephone of Green Action Zagreb and Green Istria can make use of the office space at the Pula municipality. The (moral) support of local municipalities was usually seen as an important stimulus for NGOs to remain active in their community. The Centre for Development of Non-profit Organisations was established recently. They aim to support civil initiatives and non-profit organisations on a whole range of issues. The Centre advises NGOs on their day-to-day work such as taxation, accounting and legal issues. The Centre sees itself to have an important role to get NGOs work more together by organising round table discussions. Currently they come up for the interests of NGOs in drafting a new law on non-profit organisations. They asked foreign experts to comment on the first draft laws from the government, which in its current form is worse for NGOs then the existing one. They have plans to set up a resource centre for NGOs. Already in June 1995 they held the assembly meeting of the resource centre, but ever since they are vvaiting for permission from the Ministry of Public Affairs to start an office, open a bank account, etc. The Centre is a Croatian organisation. It is supported by European Union, Soros Foundation, Mott Foundation, the British Embassy, a.o. A few NGOs managed to get funds or in-kind support from the private sector. Usually in return of advertisement space, services, or sometimes as donations, enterprises support specific programs of NGOs. S6ciety for Improvement of Quality of Life is especially successful in drawing support from the private sector to their activities. Also through entrance fees or contributions from the people in their Earth Day events, for instance, SIQL could finance part of their activities. The contribution of membership fees and donations is usually a minor source of fmancial support for the NGOs. Most frequently heard explanation for this is that the war in formal Vugoslavia and as a result the harsh economic situation makes it very hard to attract the public to environmental activities. On the othef hand, in those (relatively few) instances that NGOs drew attentjon to environmental problems through actions and demonstrations, the response of media and the public was predominantly positive.

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CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The Croatian environmental movement exists and is alive. Groups are geographicallv evenly spread over the country. Environmental groups are working on different levels and cover ali important topics. We were surprised to see so many different approaches and activities and several attempts to improve cooperation between groups. This means that there exists a sufficient basis for a further strengthening of the Croatian environmental movement. Since Croatia's declaration of independence from Vugoslavia in 1991 the countrv is governed in a centralised way (dominated by Croatian Democratic Union of President Tudjman). During the war period from 1991 tili 1995 the topics 'environment' and 'demoeratisation' were low on the political agenda. Croatia is not in immediate war situation anymore since 1995, and tries hard to become recognised by the international community as a 'normal European state* (Croatia was for instance admitted - with some hesitation - to the Council of Europe while editing this report; October 1996). At the same time, there is a clear increase of civil initiatives and NGO activities in environmental field during the last year. We did not only hear this from other organisations and individuals supporting the environmental movement throughout the last several years, but also noticed this from own experience during the visits to the different NGOs. The importance to strengthen these civil initiatives and development of the active and 'dormant' NGOs is especially important now, seen in the light of the political situation and international position of Croatia. Therefore, international support and cooperation to assist the demoeratisation process in the environmental field should intensify as soon as possible. The main \veakness of the Croatian environmental movement in our eves is that most groups work on a very ad-hoc base. They jump from one activity to the other. There are two main reasons to explain this. (1) During the war it was very difficult to get funding and (2) the situation in the country was so insecure that it seemed senseless to plan long lasting activities or to think about next year or even next month. Now the war has ended the situation has improved, and NGOs can start making plans also on the long term. The cooperation among NGOs in Croatia is underdeveloped, but improving. Croatian NGOs expressed their wish to improve cooperation. The NGOs consider Croatian Green Alliance (the alliance of most environmental NGOs in Croatia) as important tool for cooperation, though admit that the alliance is not vvorking very well at the moment. The Society for Improvement of Quality of Life (SIQL) plans to establish KRUG-NET as a service to ali kinds of NGOs. In both cases,we could feel hesitation, and sceptisism among NGOs for too formal or institutionalised ways of cooperation. The most promising examples of cooperation at the moment are less formal, or on ad-hoc basis on specific issues or in geographical regions. Recent examples are discussions about the new draft lavvs on nongovernmental organisations, joint actions against "Plomin ir', and setting up a working group of some action oriented NGOs. The communication within the environmental movement has to become more frequent. There is no open discussion platform, such as a nevvsletter. The yearly NGO gathering should become more a meeting for the whole movement, organised by the movement. It could be organised by a broader working group of NGOs, and in a way that discussions will be more targeted tovvards joint activities (e.g. by organising small parallel workshops on issues such as "energy, or Plomin II", "env. education", "coastal clean-ups", etc.). In this way more active input by participants can be expected, as well as more concrete output and cooperation. .Environmental groups have to work on the development of a mission. a clear profile and a strategv for their vvorL Before starting an activity it has to be clear what the goal and objectives are, what the target group is, what the expected results are and how this activity fits into the work plan of the organisations. To achieve this, environmental groups need training and funding.

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Croatian groups need to have the opportunity to learn~from environmental groups in other countries. This might be achieved by study visits and internships. It is also important to involve Croatian groups better in the activities of international NGOs and international networks vvorking on specifictopics. Croatian groups have contacts with media and governmental bodies. These contacts are not structural. Environmental NGOs need to learn how to maintain these contacts and integrate them in their activities. Groups also have to increase their methods to influence environmental decision making. Little attention is paid to environmental legislation and tools offered by laws for public participation. For this, special training and advice is needed. Environmental groups depend on international funding. This will not change the coming years. During these years the environmental groups have to develop fund raising plans. They have to vvork, on membership recruitment and constituency building. At the same time they have to lobby for funding from national and local gOvernment. At the moment Croatian groups can get funding for small projects with a short duration. This funding is not sufficient to cover overhead costs and to secure continuity. To overcome this deadlock, there is a clear need for more structural funding. Capacity building, membership recruitment, development of strategies and vvorkplans needs to be funded^ Role of Milieukontakt Oost-Europa The visit was a good opportunity for Milieukontakt to renew contacts and to get to know more environmental groups in Croatia. Tili now our support was very limited. In the framework of the Organisation and Management project Milieukontakt co-organised a series of training. Croatian groups were also involved in the activities of the "Environmental Policy making and NGO involvement" project of Milieukontakt. Of course we were asked several times what our plans are concerning Croatia. Some groups expressed the hope that Milieukontakt vvould start a country project with Croatia. At the moment we are not able to finance such a project but we are \villing to devote time and energy to the Croatian environmental movement. On request of some groups we already provided them with publications and materials on environmental issues, organization and management for NGOs and on the Dutch environmental movement. We helped some groups in their attempts to get Dutch funding. The groups vvorking together in the development of the "vvorking group of action oriented NGOs" asked Milieukontakt to be a partner in this project. Our reaction on this request is positive. We don't see our role restricted to helping with finding finances. We also like to provide training, to monitor activities, to give conceptual and moral support and to act as a coach. Milieukontakt is actively participating in the netvvork of NGOs working on a Pan-European scale. We will do our best to integrate Croatian environmental NGOs in this netvvork.

Amsterdam, 25 October 1996 Paul Kosterink Marga Verheije

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ANNEKES:

ANNEX I:

List of Organisations and individuals met

ANNEXII: Short description of NGOs which were met ANNEX III: List of Croatian Environmental NGOs ANNEXIV: Map of Croatia ANNEX V: Used literature

ANNEX I: List of Organisations and individuals met

NGOs: "Zeleni Osijek" (Green Osijek) Majstorovic Vojin Petrove gore 3 31000 Osijek Phone: 385 31 161-798 Zeleni mir Dubrovnik (Green Peace, Dubrovnik) Bla Friganovic, Davor Vrdoljak Frana Bulica 6 20000 Dubrovnik Phone: 385 20 891-353, 22-530 Ekoloko Drutvo "Zmergo" (Ecol. Assoc. "Zmergo") Viktora Cara Emina l Duka Peric Phone: 385 51 271 459; 713-621 51410 Opatija Ekoloka asocijacija "STRIBOR" (Ecological Association "STRIBOR") Hela Livene Dositeja Obradovica l/II 51000 Rijeka Phone:3855132-974 Eko Rijeka Mr. Ratko Profozic, Zivko Jursevic Primorje 50 51222 Bakar Phone: home: 385 51 761-313. office: 261-048 Hrvatski Savez Zelenih (Croatian Green Alliance) President: Mr. Ratko Profozic Primorje 50 51222 Bakar Phone: home: 385 51 761-313. office: 261-048 Fax:38551261-053 "Zelena Istra" (Green Istria) Latinka Janjanin Splitska 2 52000 Pula Phone: 385 52 32-570 Fax: 385 52 216-626 Savez Uzjajivaca Istarskog Goveda - SUIG (The Istrian Cattle Breeder's Association) Miroslav Kova Valturska 75/5 52000 Pula Phone/fax:3855231-161 e-mail: mkovac@magr.agr.hr Hrvatski centar "Znanje za Okoli" (Croatian Environmental Education Centre) / Istrian Environmental Center Vladimir Lay 52428 Oprtalj Phone: 385 52 644-060; 385 99 428-371 Drutvo za unaprijeflenje kvalitete ivljenja - DUKZ (Societv for Improvement of Quality of Life - SIQL) Zlatko Pejic, Nenad Maljkovic, Ana Janjatovic-Zorica Ilica 72/1, P.O. Box 117 10001 Zagreb Phone: 385 l 423-231,434-245 Fax:3851434-246,428-771 e-mail: SIQL@public.srce.hr. Zelena akcija Zagreb (Green Action Zagreb) Toni Vidan, Igor Markovic, Kata Japuncic Radnika cesta 22 10000 Zagreb Phone:38516110-951 e-mail: zelena-akcija@zg.tel.hr; za_zg@zamirzg.ztn.apc.org ZEON enkovec (Nobilis) Sinia Golub , Marko avka Vrtna l 40300 akovec Phone: 385 40 312-006; 833-490

Other Organisations and Individuals: Royal Netherlands Embassy J. Wijnands Medvescak 56, Zagreb Lidija Pavic Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Local Office Zagreb Gotovceva 1/1 41000 Zagreb Phone: 385 l 4553-190; Phone/fax: 4553 195 e-mail: lidija.pavic@public.srce'.hr Vesna Terselic peace movement, member of Advisory Board of REC Local Office Zagreb's Local Grants Program Miramarska 13b, Zagreb Phone: 385 l 422 495; 531 422 Velimir Pravdic Professor of Chemistry Ruder Boskovic Institute Center for Marine Research Bijenicka 54, Zagreb Phone: 385 41 461-111,425-384; Fax: 425-497 Inge Perko-Separovic former president of Croatian Green Alliance. Professor Fakulteta politikih nauka Lepusiceva 6 41000 Zagreb Phone: 385 41 458-022; Fax: 412-283 Branka-Marija Muvrin journalist environmental programs Croatian Radio Zagreb, Second Program Prisavlje 3

10000 Zagreb Phone: 385 l 616-3366,616-3423 / 2945; Fax: 616 3805

ANNEXII: Short description of NGOs which were met

Name and place of NGO
-Org.-Probi-Focus-Activ.-Co/Sup.-Needs-Pubishort history and organisational structure of NGO main (environmental) problems or issues vvorking on specific problems, issues or methods NGO focuses on specific activities, programs and projects cooperation partnere and other organisations that support the NGO needs expressed during the discussions publications which the NGO produces; mainly the English language ones are listed

Zeleni Osijek (Green Osijek), Osijek

-Org.-ProbiFounded in 1994; about 100 members Nature areas such as Kopacevski Rit are still in Serb occupied territories (eastern Slavonia); Declining bird population and threatened areas for fish hasheries in Danube and Kopacevski Rit -Focus- Nature conservation, Kopacevski Rit (bog areas along Danube) -Activ.- Work related to establishing biosphere reserves in Osijek areas; Monitoring nature areas such as Kopacevski Rit; Exhibition for school children on Earth Day; coordinator of Danube River Basin monitoring project -Co/Sup.- Cooperation vvith other Croatian NGOs working on Danube and Drave rivers. Was asked by Danube Environmental Forum to organise a meeting on Danube issues and NGOs; In discussion vvith governmental structures for establishing biosphere reserves; Contacts with WWF on nature protection near Osijek and Kopacevski Rit. -Needs- Contact with organisation to help on big project for preservation of Kopacevski Rit. -Pubi- data not available

Zeleni Mir (Green Peace), Dubrovnik

-Org.-Probi -FocusActive since 1987, founded in 1990; 50 members unfamiliarity of people to alternative energy, sustainable living, fragile eco-system on small island env. and nature protection of southern Croatian coast line, sustainable living, renewable energy, env. education -Activ.- Sustainable living example on island Frajga/Sipan, Eco-ship for env. education and communication on projects, env. education at small isolated country schools -Co/Sup.- Working Group of action oriented NGOs, EYFA for possible organisation of yearly 'Ecotopia' festival, int. seminare on sustainable villages -Needs- funding for island and eco-ship projects, to get more (young) people active from Dubrovnik -Pubi- Zeleni Mir brochure (Eng.), brochure SAILS - Start Adriatic Islands and Littoral Sustainability (Eng.)

Eko Rijeka, Rijeka/Bakar

-Org.first active people from Bakar started in 1986, as an NGO in 1989; during war period not active between 1991 and 1994; 500 members -Probi- intensive and uncontrolled industrial activities in Bakar Bay and near Rijeka, Coke Plant Bakar, oil spill in Bakar Bay spring 1996 -Focus- raise public avvareness of people in region and protection of local environment -Activ.- International Coastal Clean-up actions on beaches in 15 tovvns, tree pianting actions, campaigns for closing polluting industries and environmental protection, working a lot together vvith children, intensive media contacts -Co/Sup.- supporting some 15 local NGOs from around the region, organised REC vvorkshop on public participation, the NGO's president is chairman of Croatian Green Alliance, International Coastal Clean-up netvvork, Soros Foundation gives support to sue cause of oil spill and nevvsletter -Needs- finance for projects, ovvn office (currently in space provided by local municipality) and means of communication such as fax machine and ovvn telephone line -Pubi- brochure about Eko Rijeka (Eng.), "report of the activities Eko Rijeka 1994-1995" (Eng.), "The 1994 Coastal Cleanup in Croatia" (article in English nevvsletter of Center for Marine Conservation), planned nevvsletter for region (Cro.; expected soon)

Ecological Association Stribor, Rijeka

-Org.started m 1993 after workshops organised by Green Action Zagreb a.o.; registered in 1994; group of young people (mostly secundary school); 3 wofking groups (forest protection, coastal proteetion divers and animal protection),up to 30 people join weekly meetings while hundred(s) people join their actions -Probi.- planned new thermopower plant "Plomin II", stray cats and dogs in Rijeka, coastal and forest pollution -Focus- avvareness raising of people on environmental problems -Activ.- actions against "Plomin II", demonstrative walk Rijeka-Zagreb, collecting stray animals, beach cleaning actions, tree planting actions, demonstration against French nuclear tests, in-school education -Co/Sup.- Working Group of action oriented NGOs; search for support from public e.g. by approaching them on streets; incidentally municipality gives support for activities -Needs- meeting room where they can meet and use telephone -Pubithree action brochures "Zatitimo ivotinje", "Zatitimo Sume" and "Zatitimo More" (ali in Cro.)

Ecological Association Zmergo, Opatija

-Org.started in 1993 after vvorkshops organised by Green Action Zagreb a.o.; about 10 active people (mostly youth) of whom two work permanent from small office. -Probi- economic and touristic pressure to environment and nature in surroundings of Opatija and Rijeka -Focus- environmental avvareness raising of public, nature conservation Uka nature resort, waste -Activ.- protection of Uka nature resort by means of exhibitions, lobbying, actions, education, etc; reuse of materials, and waste cleaining actions and battery collection at schools; green telephone for Opatija; newsletter for youth; actions against "Plomin D" -Co/Sup.- Working Group of action oriented NGOs, joining EYFA activities, municipality supports green phone for half year, Medforum (mediterranean activities on cleaning up costs) -Needs- incidental support for their activities, such as posters from other NGOs to show succesful examples of environmental protection; office equipment -Publ.brochure about Zmergo (Eng.), newsletter for youth (Cro.)

Green Istria, Pula, Istria

-Org.-Probiestablished in 1995; approx 120 members; board of 10 members from ali over Istria who meet monthly pollution from coal energy power plant Plomin I; possible construction of Plomin n in sensitive area; further rriostly rural problems -Focus- public participation on environmental issues in Istria, nature preservationpollution prevention (e.g. cement industrv, EPP's Plomin I and H) -Activ.- green phone; organising seminars and enquiry among people to identify main issues; demonstrations against pollution from power plant Plomin I; inventory of valuable species in Istria and publishing book about it as well as using for env. education; twice a vveek program on regional radio station. -Co/Sup.- coop. with several NGOs from region for activities such as demonstrations; Dutch Embassy supports public participation/green phone activities; coop. with Croatian Environmental Education Centre -Needs- for using legal instrumente they need to develop jurisprudence -Publbook on Istrian nature (being developed)

Istrian Cattle Breeder's Association, Visnjan, Istria

-Org.-Probistarted in 1988, since 1990 registered as NGO threat for extinction of endemic Istrian cattle (from 50,000 Istrian oxes in 1960's to currently about one hundred oxes) -Focus- biodiversitv; save Istrian cattle -Activ.- identification of ali endemic Istrian cattle; cross breeding program for remaining cattle; setting up of genetic bank; supporting farmers with Istrian cattle -Co/Sup.- local farmers; International contacts with experts from Croatia and abroad -Needs- funding for executing survival strategy, i.e. wide distribution of cattle, subsidies or support fer farmers and breeding program -Publinformation letter about association (Eng.), expert publication about Istrian cattle (Cro.)

Istrian Environmental Centre / Croatian Environmental Education Centre, Oprtalj, Istria -Org.established as NGO in 1994; the director is primary organiser of Center's activities -Probi.- environmental education and management -Focus- development of environmental education and management, especially on Istria peninsula; target groups are schools, civil servants, NGOs, citizens. -Activ.- helding and developing training (methods) on environmental education and management, organising seminars and courses on public participation, conflict resolution, waste management, etc. -Co/Sup.- Support als.o from regional authorities of Istria; cooperation with WWF Thurgau Switzerland -Needs- funding for the projects, securing the Center's operations (building especially) -Pubiinformation leaflet about the Center (Eng.), several educational publications (Cro.)

Society for Improvement of Quality of Life (SIQL; DUKZ), Zagreb

started in 1986; founded in 1987; national organisation \vorking mainly from Zagreb; about 1,000 members; 4 person staff and about 50 volunteers for various activities; board consists of volunteers, advised by advisory board -Probi.- basis of solving environmental problems lays at people; individual and social ecology -Focus- raise environmental avvareness public; approach people personally; development of citizen's initiatives -Activ.- numorous activities, to summise: macrobiotic retaurant, Earth Day events including yearly concerts to attract people, publication of green handbook for NGOs, handbooks for youth at schools (env. education) and some foreign books on sust. dev., organising Green Forum and business council meetings, Green Map of Zagreb, environmental fair -Co/Sup.- several partners for projects, ini. from private sector -Needs- fmancial support for activities, structural support to assure operations, support for plan KRUG ("Communication for Development of Citizen's Initiatives") -PubL"Program 1995/96" (Eng.), many publications in Croatian, a.o. Gaia newsletter -Org.-

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Green Action Zagreb, Zagreb

founded in 1990 by different older NGOs, and individuals; approx. 1,000 members; decision making body is annual meeting of members; Executive Board of six persons meet bi-weekly and is advised by advisory body of some 15 people. -Probi- environmental problems in Zagreb and Croatia in broad sense -Focus- energy, waste disposal in Croatia and Zagreb, environmental education, supporting other env. NGOs in Croatia, dayly environmental problems in Zagreb -Activ.- numorous activities, to summarise: energy efficiency and renewable energy project with international input, out-of-school env. education, Green Telephone for Zagreb, trainings for NGOs, newsletter for members -Co/Sup.- coordinating start of Working Group of action oriented NGOs, international contacts with many organisations, Green Telephone supported by Zagreb municipality -Needs- more active people to work on activities, funding for some specific projects, structural support for office and operations, strenthening organisational structure a.o. by more members and intensify communication -Publ. - leaflet about Green Action Zagreb (Eng.), Green Phone brochure (Eng.), and many publicarions and studies in Croatian and English on their specific activities and projects -Org.-

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ANNEX III: List of Croatian Environmental NGOs

From: The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Local Office Zagreb

Eko Rijeka Primorje 50 Contact person: Mr. Ratko Profozic Phone: home: 385 51 761-313. office: 261-048 51222 Bakar Ekoloko drutvo Bjelovar KSpoljara 21 Contact person: Radmila Rade Phone: 385 43 home:223-901, office: 223-168 43000 Bjelovar Ekoloko drutvo Buzet Pracana 8 Contact person: Mauro Ivancic Phone: 385 52 662-822, 663-079 Far: 385 52 662-159 52420 Buzet Ekoloko drutvo Crikvenica P. Preradovica l Contact person: Vlado Uremovic Phone: 385 51 782-563 51260 Crikvenica Klub Mladih Susajda Melin2b Contact person: anino Sucic 51557 Cres ZEON enkovec Vitnal Contact person: Sinia Golub , Marko avka Phone: 385 40 833-490 40300 akovec Ekoloki pokret akovec "Eko patrola" Perivoj Zrinskih bb Contact person: Darko Lapto Phone: 385 40 816-330 40300 akovec Ekoloko drutvo azma 26Jipnja 14 Contact person: Ivan Starcevic Phone: 385 43 771-927 43240 azma

Ekoloko drutvo "HLOJA" Supilova 34 Contact person: Ivan Plee Phone: 385 51 811-649, 812-159 51300 Delnice Pokret zelenih Gupceva lipa Nova ulica 5 Contact person: Marija Kruelj Phone: 385 49 87-467 49240 Donja Stubica Odbor za kulturu ivljenja Trg svetog Jurja 3 Contact person: Darinka Hanzek 49240 Gornja Stubica Drutvo prijatelja prirode "DUB" c/o Dalmacijabilje Put Republike 34 Contact person: Mirko Gjukic Phone: 385 20 26-787 20000 Dubrovnik Zeleni mir Dubrovnik Frana Bulica 6 Contact person: Bla Friganovic Phone: 385 20 891-353, 22-530 20000 Dubrovnik Ronilaki klub Dubrovnik Ivana Zajca 38 Contact person: Branko Putia Phone/Fax: 385 20 411-373 20000 Dubrovnik Pokret "Zdravi grad" Dubrovnik Janjevska l Contact person: Andro Vlahuic Phone: 385 20 32-677, 26-341 20000 Dubrovnik Ekoloki klub Dubrovnik Vinogradarska 38 Contact person: Dr. Sokal 20000 Dubrovnik Grupa ispravnog djelovanja Izmedu ribnjaka 2 Contact person: onja CilicPaskojevic Phone: 385 50 26-619 20000 Dubrovnik

Drutvo za uzgoj i zatitu ptica Zvecaj 1165 31400 akovo Ekoloko drutvo urdevac Stambeni niz 2/2 Contact person: Boica Jeluic Phone: 385 48 home:814-792, office: 811-839 48350 urdevac Pokret zelenih Sutla Vrbinica 54 49231 Hum na Sutli Ekoloko drutvo Lipa Ante Starcevica 23 Contact person: Ante Gadzo Phone: 385 21841-546 (home) 21260 Imotski Zelena Jaska I.B.Mazuranic 6 Contact person: Ivan Slat Phone: 385 1808-465 10420 Jastrebarsko Zeleni Karlobaga ikic draga 53288 Karlobag Hrvatsko planinarsko drutvo "Martincak" Vranvczanijeva ul.2 47000 Karlovac PPF'Lijepa Naa" - ogranak Katela O "Otrog" Put sv Lovre bb Contact person: Ivna Buan Phone:38521227-193 21215 Katel-Lukic Ekoloko drutvo "Sutla" Mihanoviceva 13 Contact person: Marko Maca 49290 Klanjec PPF'Lyepa naa" Megdan bb Contact person: Marija Vukovic Phone: 385 21 210-925 21231 Klis

Ekoloko drutvo Koprivnica Ivana Metrovica 23 Contact person:Janko Krizanic Phone:38548651-122 48300 Koprivnica Klub jodvodnih Aktivnosti "Kostrena" Roici l 51221 Kostrena Pokret zelenih Krapina Ivana Gorana Kpvacica 9 Contact: Dolores Kociper Buben Phone: 385 49 72-097 49230 Krapina Ekoloko drutvo "Fiolica" Gajeva 45 Contact Person: Zlata Petrac 49217 Krapinske Toplice Ekoloko drutvo Krievci M.Demerca l Contact person: Mirko Gagro Phone: 385 48 681-622,681-003, 48260 Krievci Ekoloko drutvo Moslavina Zagrebaka bb Contact person: Nica StozicM Phone: 385 44 22- 408 44320 Kutina Zelena akcija Kutina Radiceva 21 44320 Kutina Odred izviaca "Betlehem" A.G. Matoa 40 Contact person: Marko Njezic ili Ivan Mikulic Phone: 385 44 621-766 Fax:38544 621-136 44320 Kutina Planinarsko drutvo "Skitai" Ul.Kalic2 52220 Labin Eko zeleni Lovran Trg slobode l Contact person: Ratimir Jazuki Phone: 385 51292-450 51415 Lovran Inicijativa za osnivanje ekolokog drutva Trg svetog trojstva 16/1 Contact person: eba Danijel 42230 Ludbreg

Savez uzgajivaa posavskog konja Hrvatske-hrvatski posavac Trebarjevo Desno 110 Contact person: Ivica Radi Phone: 385 44 711-110 44201 Martinska Ves Inicijativa za zelene u Metkoviu Marka Marulica 22 Contact: Stanislav iljak Cico Phone: 385 20 683-596 20350 Metkovi Pokret zelenih Naice Ive Lole Ribara 142 Contact person: Jadranka Baricevic 34500 Naice Ekoloki pokret Zelena linija Kralja Tomislava 16 Contact person: Branko kifa Phone: 385 42 625-097 42220 Novi Marof EKO - NOVI Obala P. Kreimira IV la Contact person: S. Kabalin Phone: 385 51 244-378 51250 Novi Vinodolski Drutvo za zatitu ovjekove okoline Novi Vinodolski Nova ulica 8 51250 Novi Vinodolski Ekoloko drutvo "MAURANA" Osnovna kola "Ivan Mazuranic" Lokvica 2 Contact person: Nela Pavkovic Phone: 385 51 244-465 51250 Novi Vinodolski Ekoloko drutvo Ogulin Contact person: Branko Dragic Phone:38547523-048 47300 Ogulin Odred izvioaca "Frankopan" zegar V br.2 Contact person: Josip Badanjek Phone: 385 47 42-16 47300 Ogulin "Zmergo" Viktora Cara Emina 5 Contact person: Duka Peric Phone: 385 51 713-621, 714 747 51410 Opatija

Inicijativa za osnivanje ekoloke organizacije Zrinsko Frankopanska 86 Contact person: Tiha Blazevic Phone: 385 20 671-108 20355 Opuzen Zeleni pokret Orahovica P. Preradovica 3 Contact person: Sanja Rendulic 33515 Orahovica "Zeleni Osijek" Petrove gore 3 Contact person: Majstorovic Vojin Phone: 385 31 161-798 31000 Osijek AIESEC ALUMNI Gornjogradska obala 91 c Contact person: Mirna Leko Phone: 385 31 125-139 31000 Osijek Jedina Zemlja Europske avenije 3 Contact person: Relja Koprolcec Phone: 385 31 23-949 Fax: 385 31 169-062 31000 Osijek FESA Vijenac I. Metrovica 7 Contact person: Darko Baric 31000 Osijek Pokret zelenih otoka Paga Golija 30/IV Contact person: Viktorija Rako 53290 Pag Ekoloko drutvo otoka Paga Veli Brig 15 Contact person: Ivo Fabijasic Phone: 385 532 611-036 53290 Pag Vesna Hudacek Inicijativa za osnivanje ekolokog drutva Ivana Metrovica 17 43550 Pakrac HPD Klikun p.p. 12 Contact person: Miro Mesk Phone: 385 34 office:251-TOO/24 34310 Pleternica

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ICAM Internacionalni centar antropologije Motovun Ruziceva 5 Contact: Tihana StepinacFabijanic Phone/fax: 385 51 424-554 51000 Rijeka Planinarsko drutvo "Kamenjak" Odbor za zatitu prirode Korzo 40/1 Contact person: Petar Solic or Milivoj Carija Phone: 385 51 31-212 51000 Rijeka Radionica za kulturni krajolik Strossmaverova. 24a Contact person: A. Milas Phone/Fax: 385 51 218-141 51000 Rijeka Drutvo "Zdrav ivot" Kumiciceva 43 51000 Rijeka Zeleni Rovinj Zagrebaka ulica 12 Contact person: Vlasta Zidaric Phone: 385 52 816-029 52210 Rovinj Ekoloko drutvo Samobor Starogradska 12 Contact person: Mirko Dumic Phone: 385 l 782-361 10430 Samobor PPP"Lijepa naa" Biblioteka "Hrvatski sastanak" Selca Contact person: Senka Nizetic Phone: 385 21 622-396 21425 Selca (Bra) Ekoloko drutvo-EKO Senj Stara cesta bb, Zgrada RFVA Contact person: Ivan Mladineo Phone/Fax: 385 53 881-219 385 53 536-11 53270 Senj Ekoloko drutvo Eko Sesvete I.G. Kovacica 19 Contact person: Gordana Pintar Phone: 385 l 746-465 10260 Sesvete

"BIOS" Savez za organsko-bioloko gospodarstvo, zatitu okolia i unapredenje zdravlja Milke Trnine 4 Contact person: Jan Cizek Phone:3851571-567 10260 Sesvete PPP "Lijepa Naa" etalite A. Stepinca l Contact person: Fra Bozo Vuleta Phone/Fax: 385 21 821-933 21230 Sinj PPF'Lijepa naa" -Trilj Franjevaka klasina gimnazija Sinj Contact person: Radmila Klaric Phone: 385 21 821-809 21230 Sinj Zeleni mir Sisak Vinogradska 24 Contact person: Davorin Frketic Phone: 385 44 320-49 44000 Sisak Brodsko ekoloko drutvo p.p. 149 Contact person: imo Bene Phone: 385 35 home: 232-333, office: 241-421 35000 Slavonski Brod Eko pokret Slavonski Brod etalite brace Radi 9 Contact person: Borka Mirkovic Phone:38535441-867 35000 Slavonski Brod Zelena akcija Stari Mikanovci Vinkovacka 23 Contact person: Antun Mustapic Phone: 385 56 764-073 32284 Stari Mikanovci Ekoloko drutvo "Vidak* Ljube Babica alskog 43 Contact person: Ivica Cukelj 49244 Stubicke Toplice PPP "Lyepa naa" Dom Zvonimir - Solin Contact person: Meri Pletikosic Phone: 385 21211-066 21210 Solin

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Drutvo zelenih Vinkovci Starceviceva 19 Contact person: Dubravka Vlahovic Phone: 385 33 312-616, 332-653 32000 Vinkovci Ekoloko drutvo Virovitica Antuna Mihanovica 9 Contact person: Katica Kovacevic and Zvonko Tarnjaj Phone: 385 33 721-434 33400 Virovitica Savez uzgajivaa istarskih goveda Zagrebaka 21 Contact person: Aldo tifanic Phone: 385 52 49-361 52463 Vinjan Ekoloko drutvo "Lijepa naa domovina" Magistarska 38 /I Phone: 385 49 23-533 49210 Zabok Eko drutvo Zeleno Zagorje Trg hrv. kraljice Jelene l Contact person: Jurica Hikec 49223 Sv. Kri Zacretje Pokret zelenih Zadar S.S. Kranjcevica 2 Contact person: Ljubo Bariic Phone: 385 2322-950, 381-796 23000 Zadar Urboekoloko drutvo Zadar Bana Jelacica 4/12 Contact person: Josip Vrani 23000 Zadar Savez zelenih Hrvatske oroiceva 7 Contact person: Gordana Pintar Phone: 385 l home:746-465 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko ekoloko drutvo Rooseveltov trg 6 Contact person: Paula Durbeic Phone: 385 l 442-604, 442-804 10000 Zagreb Zelena akcija Zagreb Radnika cesta 22 Contact person: Dubravka Bacun Phone: 385 16110-951 10000 Zagreb

SVANIMIR - Hrvatsko udruenje za zatitu prirodnog i kulturno-povijesnog nasljea Ilirski trg 9 Gontact person: Vesna Tuti Phone: 385 l 274-809 10000 Zagreb Drutvo za unaprije5enje kvalitete ivljenja Ilica 72/1 Contact person: Zlatko Pejic Phone: 385 l 423-231, 434-245 Fax: 385 l 434-246 e-mail: SIQL@public.srce.hr. 10000 Zagreb Pokret prijatelja prirode "Lijepa naa" Demetrova 11 Contact person: Ante Kutle Phone: 385 l 425-222 10000 Zagreb Drutvo za cjeloviti razvoj ovjeka D. Kalea 10 Contact person: Mirjana Gracan Phone: 385 l 560-216 10000 Zagreb Sveuilino udruenje "Ekoloka javnost" Salajeva 3 10000 Zagreb Mrea "Zdravih gradova" Rockefellerova 4 Contact person: Selma Sogoric Phone: 385 l 276-892 Fax:385 l 274-742 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko drutvo za zatita voda i mora Avenija Vukovar 220 Contact person: zeljko Makne Phone: 385 l 6110-522/318 10000 Zagreb Mladi uvari prirode Hrvatsko prirodoslovno drutvo Ilica 16/111 Contact person: Vicko Pavicic Phone/Fax: 385 l 425-288 10000 Zagreb

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Drutvo za prouavanje tla Republike Hrvatske Svetoimunska 25 Contact person: Ferdo Basic Phone: 385 1235-777, 235-077 Fax: 385 l 215-300 10000 Zagreb Komisija za zatitu prirode Planinarskog saveza Hrvatske Kozarceva 22 Contact person: Ivan Stoic Phone: 385 l 448-774 10000 Zagreb Savez izviSacaHrvatske Preradoviceva 7 Contact person: Dalibor Jelavic Phone:3851420-861 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko geografsko drutvo Marulicev trg 19/11 10000 Zagreb Drutvo pejzanih arhitekata Svetoimunska 25 Contact person: onja Jurkovic Phone: 385 1235-077 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko geoloko drutvo Sekcija za zatitu prirode Zvonimirova 8 10000 Zagreb Hrvatski ronilaki savez Dalmatinska 12 Contact person: Zlatko Kamenic 10000 Zagreb Ekoloko drutvo Senj inicijativa Draice 15 10000 Zagreb Croatia nostra Opatika 16 Contact person: Borivoj Korejzl Phone: 385 l 273-519 10000 Zagreb ECOVAST Institut za povijest umjetnosti Av. Vukovar 68 Contact person: Mih'enka Fischer Phone: 385 l 538-060 Fax: 385 l 537-613 10000 Zagreb

"Eugena" Centar za osobnu ekologiju Marticeva 5 Contact person: Maja Matroic Phone: 385 1410-120 10000 Zagreb Ekoloko drutvo "zumberak" Baradin prilaz 9 Contact person: Josip intic 10010 Zagreb Hrvatski portski ribolovni savez Kneza Mislava 7 Contact person: Draen Oraic 10000 Zagreb Prirodoslovno drutvo "Ljekovita biljka" Vlaka 58 Contact person: zeljko Sobotka Phone/Fax: 385 l 443-852 10000 Zagreb "Priroda" asopis Rooseveltov trg 6 Contact person: Oskar Springer Phone: 385 1441-030 Fax:3851452-645 10000 Zagreb Asocijacija meteorologije, hidrologije i geofizike Mandalicina 14 Contact person: B. Capka Phone: 385 1432-289 10000 Zagreb Eurocoast - Hrvatsko udruenje Rooseveltov trg 6 Contact person: Antonijeta Poar Domac Phone: 385 1442-604 10000 Zagreb Hrvatska grupa "Vuk" Rooseveltov trg 6 Contact person: Darko Kovacic Phone: 385 l 442-604.442-804 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko -ameriko drutvo Sekcija za agrikulturu i ekologiju Odranska6 Contact person; Dragutin Dumancic Phone: 385 1513-032 10000 Zagreb

Phone: 385 l 221-224 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko umarsko drutvo Trg I. Mazuranica 11 10000 Zagreb Drutvo za zatitu zraka Hrvatske Medvecak 158 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko meteoroloko drutvo
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Contact person: Tomislav Vucetic Phone: 385 l 421-222 10000 Zagreb Sekcija za ekoloko inzenjersvo Saveza kemiara i tehnologa Hrvatske Pkrottieva 6 10000 Zagreb Hrvatsko nuklearno drutvo Av. Vukovar 39 10000 Zagreb Drutvo plasticara i gumaraca Garicgradska 6 p.p-119 Contact person: Igor Catic 10000 Zagreb

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ANNEXIV: MapofCroatia

Note: Only the cities, rivers and regions which are mentioned in the report are shown

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