The total costs for environmental protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the areas of – mining of ores and stone, processing industry, production and supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning, water supply, waste water removal, waste management, recycling of specially separated materials and environmental rehabilitation activities in the last year amounted to 320,130,718 KM or 0.60 percent of the GDP of BiH, and are 16.8 percent higher compared to the previous year.
Of the total costs for environmental protection in 2024, 20.1 percent was spent on investments in environmental protection, while 79.9 percent was spent on current environmental protection costs.
Most of the costs relate to waste management (64.2 percent), wastewater management (16.5 percent), followed by air protection (13.6 percent) and soil and groundwater protection and rehabilitation (3.1 percent), data collected by the BiH Statistics Agency.
The total realized investments for environmental protection in 2024 amounted to 64,370,737 KM. Of the total realized investments in environmental protection, 69.9 percent were realized as investments at the end of the production process, and the remaining 30.1 percent were investments in integrated technologies.
Total current costs for environmental protection amounted to 255,759,981 KM. Of the total current costs, 81.4 percent refers to internal current costs, the remaining 18.6 percent refers to external current costs.
Internal current costs are intended for the operation of equipment at the end of the production process, material, energy, maintenance, labor costs, while external current costs include payments to third parties for environmental protection services from the public sector or special producers that can be public or private – for external fees/purchases for waste collection or wastewater treatment and for other things, e.g. expenses for soil and groundwater decontamination.
Environmental Protection Expenditure (EPE) is defined as the amount of money spent on activities directly aimed at preventing, reducing and eliminating pollution or disturbances arising from production processes.
Data on costs for environmental protection are collected for different areas of the environment according to the Single European Statistical Classification of Activities Related to Environmental Protection (CEPA).
The classification of environmental protection activities (CEPA, 2000) distinguishes nine different areas of environmental protection: air and climate protection, waste water management, waste management, protection and rehabilitation of soil, groundwater and surface water, noise and vibration reduction, biodiversity and landscape protection, radiation protection, research and development and other environmental protection activities, writes Radio Sarajevo.
