The third and the last Seminar dedicated to the promotion of the Law to manage packaging and packaging waste, which was held on the 7th of February, 2011, in Prilep and it was intended for the business sector in Pelagonija.
After the official speech of the Mayor of Prilep, Mr. Marjan Risteski and the Director of the Center for Development of Pelagonija Region, Mrs. Emilia Gjeroska, the Lecturer Mrs. Jadranka Ivanova from the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (also the author of this Law) introduced the law to the companies, and explained the obligations and responsibilities explained in the Law, for them in terms of packaging waste, the standards that should be reached, system recovery and recycling and information system for consumers.
The discussion was ongoing between the instructor and the participants of this seminar in terms of the mechanisms that companies should use to perform the correct treatment of this waste, after which the companies will fully begin to apply to the provisions of that law, which began to apply from the beginning of this year.
Together with this, the Center for Development of Pelagonija Region, gave its contribution to ensure a high level of environmental protection, investing in raising the awareness and knowledge about the ways to reduce the amount of packaging waste through recycling, or recycling.
