"We have a lot of hotels that have to go into the legalization procedures because if they are late, I'm afraid we'll have problems with work permits," said Dragan Ivančević, the Chairman of the Board.
That is why it an educational campaign to introduce tourism and hospitality professionals to the need for the legalization of illegally raised facilities needs to be strengthened.
It has been concluded that a database of licensed business entities, geodesist architects, builders and others should be created to provide links or contacts to connect with them so that businesspeople can easily enter the selection process.
It was agreed that the municipalities designate and publish the contact person in charge of legalization and publish updated information on the submitted requests and resolved cases on their websites.
It was also concluded that there is a need to speed up the preparation of local planning documentation for faster completion of legalization, as well as to simplify and speed up the process of additional payments for parcels in case that part of the facility is built on state land.
The Director of the Housing Directorate at the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, Marko Canović, said that more favorable conditions for legalization would not occur.
He warned that the legalization process is interrupted only in two cases - if property and property rights on land were not resolved and when the facility was not defined by planning documentation.
"The deadline for submitting the request is the 15th of July. Municipalities are obliged to make decisions on communal fees for illegal facilities and some have not done it yet," said Canovic, adding that the municipalities are obliged to invest the funds in the place they were collected and announced a control of spending money from the utility fees.
He reminded that the owners of the illegal facility have three years to deal with the guidelines from the legalization decision. The General Secretary of the Municipalities community, Nebojsa Adzic, said that eight municipalities decided on standard equipment, six did not agree, two did not submit proposals, and nine were given consent and can start with the process of legalization.
Text by Pobjeda, on May 18th, 2018, read more at CdM
