Assistant Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning Ljiljana Stanojevic said today that the project of inspection capacity building for environmental protection, worth €2 million, will be financed from EU pre-accession IPA funds next year.

Stanojevic stated that this project is being carried out in cooperation with the Austrian Agency for Environmental Protection and will last two years.

The project starts in 2011 and is worth €2 million, of which €500,000 is earmarked for the training of inspectors, outlined Stojanovic.