Florozon

The next day they they started off my recapping the previous day a bit, then presented the booklet that Florozon had made about your legal rights in MK in regards to environmental legislation. The power had gone out, so it was a really short presentation.

There is some protection of human rights (such as against loud noise), and some NGOs can start the procedures. But there is limited use of the Ombudsman, they can’t stop the purchase of land, only the development of it. People have protested the falling of the lake or other small cases (logging on reserves). They also presented a few other cases:

• the lady who lived on the ground floor of an apartment building. They put a park bench in front of her window, where teenagers were loud and drinking every night. She successfully complained and got the bench moved to another part of the park. However, it required 213 interventions, or a really long time.
• The Vardar waste. It comes from a dump, and went to where the waste was thrown into the river. The waste is from the fast construction of a building near the dump. There needs to be better places for waste. They imitated public debates to move the waste to a better location, however, it was never moved.

There is a lack of citizen’s awareness about their rights. There is also a lack of awareness by the institutions. The most frequent example is noise protection.

There was a bit of a debate between the attendees between the different things that had been done in MK. They were discussing the classical infringement of law with trash. It was hard to follow, because there was a problem with the translators.

The event when on for a bit longer, but I had to go to another meeting that I had set up before learning about the workshop. So I am not sure exactly what it was that they talked about.