Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction GEF Project (Serbia)

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The Pollution Reduction Project for Serbia and Montenegro aims at reducing agricultural nutrient pollution in the Danube River. The project has the following four components: Component 1) will strengthen the policy and regulatory framework that regulates nutrient run-off and discharge from livestock farms and slaughterhouses, in line with the European Union (EU) Nitrate Directive (ND). Component 2) will demonstrate cost-effective methods by which livestock farms and slaughterhouses can reduce nutrient run-off and discharge into the Danube River and its tributaries, and to improve agricultural advisory service capacity to extend knowledge of these technologies. Component 3) will assess the impact of the project interventions on water and soil quality in the Serbian Danube Basin; to increase local communities', enterprises' and policy makers' awareness of water pollution from livestock farms and slaughterhouses, and of improvements made through the project; and to devise a strategy to replicate the project's interventions in other parts of the Danube River Basin in Serbia and beyond.