The Ministry of Environmental Protection () is a ministry in the Government of Serbia which is in the charge of the environmental protection. The current minister is Sara Pavkov, in office since 2025.
History The ministry was established in 1991. Over the years, several departments were added and removed in the Ministry's jurisdiction. The area covered by the Ministry mostly included environmental protection, natural resources, spatial planning. From 2004 to 2007, the Department for environmental protection was under Ministry of Science jurisdiction. In 2011, the Department for mining of the Ministry of Mining and Energy was added to the Ministry only to be removed in 2014. In 2012, Department for environmental protection was moved into Ministry of Energy, Development, and Environment under Zorana Mihajlović. The Ministry was abolished in 2014, as the Department for mining was merged into Ministry of Mining and Energy. In 2017, it was split from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection.
List of ministers Political party:
Name Party Term of office Prime MinisterMinister of Environmental Protection Pavle Todorović SPS 31 July 1991 18 March 1994 Zelenović Božović Šainović Jordan Aleksić SPS 18 March 1994 24 March 1998 Marjanović Branislav Blažić SRS 24 March 1998 24 October 2000 Marjanović Mila Rosić SPS 24 October 2000 25 January 2001 Minić Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Anđelka Mihajlov DS 13 June 2002 3 March 2004 Đinđić Živković Merged into Ministry of Science and Environmental ProtectionMinister of Environmental Protection Saša Dragin DS 15 May 2007 7 July 2008 Koštunica Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulić DS 7 July 2008 14 March 2011 Cvetković Minister of Environment, Mining, and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulić DS 14 March 2011 27 July 2012 Cvetković Minister of Natural Resources, Mining, and Spatial Planning Milan Bačević SNS 27 July 2012 27 April 2014 Dačić AbolishedMinister of Environmental Protection Goran Trivan SPS 29 June 2017 28 October 2020 Brnabić Irena Vujović SNS 28 October 2020 16 April 2025 Brnabić Vučević Sara Pavkov SNS 16 April 2025 Incumbent Macut
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