The deadline for objections has closed: signatures and objections gathered across the Timok region

The early public review of the special purpose spatial plan for the "Čukaru Peki" and "Malka Golaja" mining and metallurgical complex closed on 3 August 2026. Until that date, written objections to the document could be filed with Serbia's Agency for Spatial Planning and Urbanism.

Through the last weeks of July, objections and signatures were collected on the streets. In Zaječar, around 2,000 petition signatures and some 300 objections were gathered in three hours. Knjaževac produced around 150 signatures. In Negotin, the informal group "Negotin uz studente", together with the "Zaječar against mines" initiative, collected 180 signatures over two days and a total of four hours in the field.

In Belgrade, objections were collected by citizens' assemblies: the Batajnica and Zemun assemblies gathered around 500 objections, and the Stari grad and Voždovac assemblies followed. In Zaječar, the youth and student initiative "Zaječarci u blokadi" was involved from the start, as one of the five organisers of the drive.

This was the first opportunity, not the last. The procedure continues with the drafting of the plan and of the strategic environmental assessment, which was not produced during the early review at all. After that comes the public review of the draft, a new legal window in which objections are filed again. We will announce it as soon as it is known.

More than 400 people have contacted us, by email and through Instagram, to confirm that they answered our call to file an objection, which came with instructions on where to submit it. That is our own count, not an official one, and it is certainly lower than the real figure.

The Agency for Spatial Planning and Urbanism has not yet published how many objections it received in total. We are asking for that number, and for the report on how they were considered, to be made public. If you filed an objection and have not told us, write to info@timockabuna.org.