of this report the announced amendments to the laws were not passed and the Ministry of Environmental Protection did not act completely on issued recommendations. In the reporting period the protector of citizens paid special attention to air protection, especially in Smederevo, Bor and Kolubara, so in recommendations and opinions to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and local self-government units in individual cases he indicated to the need for the conduct of adequate inspection supervision and consideration of the application of measures of prohibition to polluters with passing of adequate local measures which would contribute to solving of systemic problems. One of such cases is the air pollution which inhabitants in villages Radinac, Ralja and Vranovo in Smederevo suffer, due to steel production in former Železara Smederevo and now HBIS GROUP Serbia Iron & Steel d.о.о. Belgrade. After conducted procedure, the Protector of Citizens confirmed that the Ministry of Environmental Protection did not consider to the polluter the application of all authorizations stipulated by the law, that it failed to confirm if this polluter takes all other measures of protection stipulated by the Study on the assessment of the impact of current state on the environment and that the City of Smederevo did not adopt the Plan of the Air Quality even though it was executed and the Ministry of Environmental Protection gave its consent to it. Pursuant to the confirmed state of affairs, the Protector of Citizens issued to the competent bodies recommendations with the aim of the removal of noticed irregularities.186 When it comes to former Železara Smederevo, the Protector of Citizens conducted the procedure also in terms of air pollution and noise pollution at the location of Old Port Smederevo which occurred due to the reload of coke ore, iron ore and other products. On this occasion at the Ministry of Environmental Protection it was indicated to the need for accurate confirmation of the total state of noise and specific sources of noise as well as impact of the stated activity on the level of air pollution at the stated location.187 Taking into account the long-term problem of environmental pollution in Bor, primarily in the exploitation zone of the mines Veliki Krivelj, Bor and Cerovo, which became current again in the reporting period due to the emergence of excessive threshold of sulfur-dioxide in the air at emitters in the city of Bor, the Protector of Citizens in his issued opinion indicated to the need to increase the inspection supervision of the activities of MSB Bor and its current owner, company “Serbia ZIJIN Bor Copper“ d.о.о. Bor, so it is apparent to confirm whether all guidelines for environmental protection in the performance of the activity contained in regulations from the environmental protection and passed studies on the assessment of the impact on the environment are implemented. Furthermore, in order to undoubtedly confirm whether all guidelines for environmental protection are implemented due to the execution of mining and other activities of the Mining basin “Kolubara”, primarily at villages Veliki Crljeni, Zeoke and Medoševac in which the remaining inhabitants still live, the Protector of Citizens indicated in the issued opinion to the Ministry of Environmental Protection that it was necessary that PC EPS implement the comprehensive inspection supervision of the Mining Basin “Kolubara” in the application of the regulations from the field of environmental protection and passed studies on the assessment of the impact on the environment and that PC EPS take all necessary measures from its competence in order to provide as soon as possible the relocation of all remaining Recommendation of the Protector of Citizens available at: https://www.ombudsman.rs/index.php/2012-0207-14-03-33/6330-inis-rs-v-z-sh-i-ziv-n-sr-din-d-r-z-ri-pri-nu-privr-n-z-br-n-r-d-s-ci-n-rn-g-izv-r-z-g-div-nj. 187 Recommendation with opinion of the Protector of Citizens available at: https://www.ombudsman.rs/index.php/2012-02-07-14-03-33/6266-inis-rs-v-z-sh-i-ziv-n-sr-din-d-spr-v-d-v-nrd-n-insp-ci-s-i-n-dz-r-n-l-ci-i-s-r-lu-s-d-r-v. 186 - 97 -