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02/01/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/01/2024 11:13

Purchase of new electric vehicles to be subsidised with RSD 170 million

The Serbian government adopted today the Regulation on the conditions and method of implementing the subsidised purchase of new vehicles which have solely electric drive, for which RSD 170 million have been allocated.

Physical persons and legal entities, as well as sole proprietors, have the right to subsidised purchase of electric cars, and applications must be submitted to the Ministry of Environmental Protection by 31 October of this year.

The subsidies for the purchase of an electric moped or a light tricycle amount to €250 in dinar equivalent, of electric motorcycle, a motorcycle with a side seat, a heavy tricycle, a light and heavy quadricycle amount to €500, while the largest amount is provided for electric passenger vehicles with a maximum of nine seats and electric cargo vehicles with a maximum permissible mass of up to 3.5 tons and it stands at €5,000 in dinar equivalent.

The Serbian government determined the amount of funds in 2024 for exercising the right to funds for construction, participation in the purchase, i.e. the purchase of a family residential building or apartment based on the birth of a child, in the total amount of RSD 1,500,000,000.

Government members adopted an amended Conclusion on consent to pay animal owners funds for dead and killed animals in order to diagnose African swine fever and to suppress and prevent the spread of this infectious disease, for which RSD 88,785,899 were provided.

The Regulation on the declaration of the Mali Bosut Nature Park was adopted, which will ensure the preservation of the original flow of the Bosut River in its entirety in this special nature reserve, whose watercourse, along with the coastal zone, represents an ecological corridor of international importance.

Also, water, swamp, coastal and forest habitats are habitats for 131 taxa of higher plants, 26 species of mammals, 27 species of invertebrates, 11 species of amphibians, nine species of reptiles, 118 species of birds, 62 species of plants and 16 species of fish.

By adopting the Regulation, the total area under protection is increased and brought closer to the envisaged percentage of nine percent of the territory of the Republic of Serbia.