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Economic state indicators of Mačva and Districts

Geo-economic position

The Kolubara and Mačva districts lie in Western , covering an area of 5,742 sq km, or 6.5% of the total area of the Republic of Serbia, with a population of 540.224 living in 446 settlements. The region has good road and railway connections (M21, M24 and M19, trunk roads, Beograd – Bar railway). The planned route of the -South Adriatic road goes through three municipalities, which will incorporate the region into the international transport corridors: Corridor 10* and Corridor 7. The River could potentially become an international waterway and via the Danubian water link connect the region directly to «the European blue roads», with the construction of the international port infrastructure in Šabac and the existing infrastructure of the free zone.

Economic structure°

∗ 1. Enterprises

There are 3.516 operating enterprises in 2006.

Enterprises Number Agriculture 284 Mining 28 Industry 1033 Electric energy and gas 18 Construction 211 Trade 1274 Hotels and restaurants 41 Traffic 254 Financial Affairs 7 Real estate affairs 226 Communal activities 58 Other 82

*Source : Koridor 10 Info Pages http://www.pregled.com ° Source: Ministry of Finance, Republic of Serbia, 2006. ∗ http://regpr.komora.net/Default.aspx?tabid=55, Republic Development Bureau http://www.razvoj.sr.gov.yu/, Statistic Office of the Republic of Serbia http://www.statserb.sr.gov.yu/

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Enterprises by size:

Small 95.7% Medium 3.7% Large 0.6%

2. Entrepreneurs

There are 18.500 operating entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs by sector:

Entrepreneurs Sectors Trade 38% Industry 17% Traffic 15% Hotels and Restaurants 10% Construction 8% Real estate 5% Agriculture 1% Other 6%

Foreign trade°

Total foreign trade turnover in 2006. is 614.1 million USD, export 258.4 million USD, import 355.7 million USD and deficit 97.3 million USD.

Export Import Italy 36% Italy 31% Bosnia and 14% EU 15% Herzegovina Foreign trade partners Montenegro 10% Germany 13% Germany 9% France 5% Austria 5% Bosnia and 4% Herzegovina Other 26% Other 32%

° Source: Ministry of Economy and Regional Development, Republic of Serbia, 2006, http://www.merr.sr.gov.yu/, Chamber of Commerce of Serbia, http://pks.komora.net/, Statistic Office of the Republic of Serbia, http://www.statserb.sr.gov.yu/

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Natural potentials∗

The major natural potential of the region include: relatively large farm areas, covering almost 400,000 ha, of which 280,000 ha is farm land and 35,000 ha are orchards. About 35% of arable land is planted with corn with an annual yield of about 500,000 tons and wheat with the annual yield of 120,000 tons.

The region has favorable conditions for the cultivation of all types of continental fruits: raspberries, plums, blackberries, strawberries, pears, apples. The annual output of plums is about 100,000 tons, and raspberries about 20,000 tons. The region is rich in wild fruits and medicinal herbs.

The region has an established tradition in stock raising, in particular cattle breeding, with about 154,000 large heads of cattle, 470,000 pigs and 290,000 sheep, and a good presence of poultry breeding; it has superb natural potentials for fish breeding and bee breeding.

Almost 130,000 inhabitants are engaged in agriculture. Moreover, 322 enterprises and over 200 agricultural cooperatives are engaged in agricultural production.

Rich natural resources include: 150,000 ha of forest; coal-lignite deposits; metal ores: antimony, silver, zinc, copper, iron; nonmetals: quartz sand, clay, lime, fluorite, barite, marble; the potential of the river and the presence of geothermal, thermal, mineral springs offer the possibility of different forms of utilization.

The favorable topography of hilly terrains and mountains (the highest peak at 1.347 m on mountain), mild and moderate climate, a balanced distribution of rainfall, woody mountains rich in various game, rivers rich in fish, a large number of important cultural- historical monuments, good transport links to all destinations, altogether provide a favorable environment for all forms of tourism.

∗ Chamber of Commerce of Serbia, http://pks.komora.net, Statistic Office of the Republic of Serbia http://www.statserb.sr.gov.yu/

3 Economic potentials∗

1. Agriculture and food industry

Dominant economic branch with 7 fields, contributes 12% of the region’s total economic income and 28% share in exports; There are numerous capacities for fruit and vegetables processing, meat and milk production and processing, alcohol beverages and mineral water, fodder, tea and spices and tobacco processing;

2. Chemical industry

Represented with over 100 companies; 3,777 employees and 3% share of the total industrial production; Includes production of cellulose fibers, silk, fertilizers, pharmaceutical products, plant protection agents, plastic products, PVC upholstery, packing material etc;

3. Metal industry

Represented with 8 economic branches: ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, metal processing, machine construction, electrical machine and equipment production, transport vehicles production. A total of 300 enterprises, with about 5,000 employees, and 21% share in the total income.

4. Building materials industry

Based on rich natural resources including quartz sand, coalmine, clay, and granite, stone; 71 enterprises, 2,241 employees and 2M USD exports.

5. Wood processing industry

Represented with over 130 enterprises in the sphere of primary wood processing producing higher levels of final products for furniture and furniture elements. About 7% share of industrial production.

6. Textile Leather and Foot-wear industry

Represented with over 70 enterprises and over 4,000 employees with 5% share of the total industrial production; The leading capacities are for the production of textiles: - viscose silk, stockings and garments.

7. Printing industry

∗ Chamber of Commerce of Serbia, http://pks.komora.net/, Ministry of finance, Republic of Serbia, http://www.mfin.sr.gov.yu, Statistic Office of the Republic of Serbia http://www.statserb.sr.gov.yu/

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Represented with over 80 enterprises in the sphere of paper, cardboard and paper packing material production and processing, printing and publishing.

8. Industrial waste collection and recycle industry

Represented with 12 enterprises, 300 employees and 3 % share of the industrial production.

9. Building industry

Represented with about 200 enterprises in all spheres: design and engineering, civil and road construction, assembly and finishing works.

10. Trade

Represented with 1.165 enterprises with 34 % share of the total income.

11. Tourism and catering

The region possesses accommodation capacity in over 166 facilities (hotels, motels, resort facilities) with 1,902 rooms and 9,188 beds, as well as 1,426 catering facilities (mountain and spa tourism). Development of hunting tourism due to the presence of large hunting grounds - 538,078 ha, as well as fishing tourism with rivers and lakes rich in fish; There is also tourism potential in the cultural and historical heritage found in the region originating from prehistoric times, through the Roman period, Middle Ages, to more recent historical monuments.

12. Transport and telecommunication

There are 186 transport enterprises with 2,196 employees, and 4.58% share of the total income. There is substantial potential related to the Commodities – transport center and the Free Trade Zone Sabac. Telephony is digitized with about 150,000 connections and provides good connection towards transit and international automatic telephone exchanges. The node centers in , Sabac and are connected to the national transmission system rings with up to 10 Gb/s capacity and to the regional rings with up to 2.5 Gb/s. The region is covered by the ISDN network (Integrated Service Digital Network), able to offer DSL connections (Digital Subscriber Loop) and most of the IN (Intelligent Network) platform services. There are several major Internet providers operating in the region, with large broadband capacity in the national Internet provider network, such as: PTT, Verat, Infograf, etc. Because of the big Back Bone enabled by “Telekom,” these providers can always increase their broadband capacities. The network of the two mobile operators “Telekom” (064 and 065) and “Mobtel” (063 and 062) cover 90% of the territory of the region.

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13. Infrastructure

The most noteworthy infrastructural projects are the following: • Reconstruction of the trunk road routes M19, M21, M24 and M4, a total of 195.5 km. • Reconstruction of power, water supply and sewage reticulation, gasification (Sabac, Loznica, M. , Bogatic, with the other municipalities in the region yet to come); • Construction of city central heating plants and hot water supply, a12 M EUR project covering Valjevo and Loznica; • “Stubo Rovni” – water supply project, second stage; • Water management courses covering the Drina, the Sava, the Kolubara, and the rivers in the areas of water protection, flood control, irrigation; • There is a substantial geothermal potential.

14. Ecology

The environmental sphere is one of the top priorities for the region’s future development: • Industrial waste management and recycling; • Rehabilitation of the existing landfills; • Construction of new land fills; • Waste water treatment; • Rehabilitation of soiled areas; rehabilitation of waste areas in the Veliki Majdan and Zajaca mines, re-cultivation of the Kolubara coalmine.

15. Some successful enterprises in Kolubara and Mačva*

Hemopharm Koncern Zorka – Pharma AD, Šabac (Pharmaceutical industry) Mlekara, Šabac (Food industry - dairy products) Galeb Group DOO, – Šabac (Metal industry – machin tools) Austrotherm DOO, Valjevo (Construction industry - building material) Valy DOO (Golden Lady), Valjevo (Textile industry – hosiery, underwear) Farmakom MB DOO, Šabac (Chemical industry - fertilizers, pesticides, quality fodder) Gorenje – Aparati za domaćinstvo, Valjevo (Metal industry - electrodomestic products) US Steel beli limovi, Šabac ( Metal industry - tin-coated steel production) Progetti, (Leather industry – shoes manufactoring) Voda Voda, Banja (Food industry - water production) Vujić Voda Valjevo, Petnica (Food industry - water production)

*Source: Republic Development Bureau, http://www.razvoj.sr.gov.yu ; Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency http://www.siepa.sr.gov.yu

6 Roads length in Mačva and Kolubara Districts°

District/Municipalities Total Modern Main roads Regional Local roads Total Modern Total Modern Total Modern Republic of Serbia 37.827 23.705 4.634 4.594 10.367 8.921 23.085 10.243 Mačva 2.989 1.401 250 250 547 464 2.192 687 Bogatić 235 162 - - 85 83 150 79 Vladimirci 250 158 31 31 44 39 175 88 821 93 21 21 51 43 749 29 314 146 7 7 84 63 223 76 Loznica 548 349 65 65 128 109 355 175 189 77 38 38 41 21 110 18 173 66 34 34 13 8 126 24 Šabac 459 350 54 54 101 98 304 198 Kolubara 1.770 1.180 194 194 615 509 961 477 Valjevo 505 410 80 80 177 159 248 171 196 172 68 68 54 50 74 54 279 179 22 22 111 90 146 67 295 165 - - 93 58 202 107 Osečina 251 76 18 18 58 33 175 25 244 178 6 6 122 119 116 33

Railway potentials*

The two districts are close to two major railways, – Bar (Montenegro), this railway is passing through Lajkovac and Valjevo. The other important railway connecting Serbia with the Western is Belgrade – Zagreb and it passes near Sabac.

° Source: Statistic Office of the Republic of Serbia, http://www.statserb.sr.gov.yu/ * Source: Public Enterprise « » http://www.zeleznicesrbije.com

7 Realized investments, by type of construction and technical structure * * Dinar, thousend District/Municipal Total Type of construction ities New facilities Reconstructio, Maintenance of existing modernization, building facilities onto and extension

Republic of Serbia 327 525 063 ...... Social ownership* 163 549 507 65 951 546 75 281 806 22 316 155 Private ownership 163 975 566 ...... Mačva 2 772 785 1 641 999 797 194 333 592 Bogatić 59 470 47 325 1 514 10 631 Vladimirci 85 713 36 605 46 233 2 875 Koceljeva 22 184 11 118 10 518 548 Krupanj 73 109 69 748 3 039 322 Loznica 286 095 121 837 70 233 94 025 Ljubovija 82 074 44 322 31 686 6 066 Mali Zvornik 26 514 5 170 16 026 5 318 Šabac 2 137 626 1 305 874 617 945 213 807 Kolubara 1 844 394 923 668 648 764 271 962 Valjevo 807 353 253 491 355 358 198 504 Lajkovac 374 078 178 864 191 445 3 769 Ljig 127 216 90 114 15 481 21 621 Mionica 201 838 148 728 40 591 12 519 Osečina 49 357 8 813 38 782 1 762 Ub 284 552 243 658 7 107 33 787 District/Municipal Technical structure ities Equipment, assembling included Construction works Domestic Imported Other Republic of Serbia 152 146 425 88 599 282 57 910 709 26 868 648 Social ownership* 74 540 224 40 859 865 38 149 895 9 999 523 Private ownership 77 540 224 47 739 417 19 760 814 18 869 125 Mačva 1 245 548 649 661 869 814 13 762 Bogatić 55 875 3 045 - 550 Vladimirci 71 274 3 318 10 407 714 Koceljeva 15 294 1 415 - 5 475 Krupanj 2 883 70 172 54 -

* Source: Statistic Office of the Republic of Serbia http://www.statserb.sr.gov.yu * The data on municipalities are relative to public, cooperative, mixed and state ownership * Covered public, cooperative, mixed and state ownership and undistributed investments of Dinar 14242067 thousand that cannot be distributed to certain municipalities (long-distance power lines, railways, TT lines, highways, cable lines, etc.).

8 Loznica 137 658 64 682 79 395 4 360 Ljubovija 48 724 19 826 13 524 - Mali Zvornik 3 011 21 107 2 104 292 Šabac 910 829 466 096 758 330 2 371 Kolubara 1 334 513 219 802 153 984 136 095 Valjevo 556 588 144 546 94 737 11 482 Lajkovac 332 782 24 378 822 16 096 Ljig 105 527 8 373 13 316 - Mionica 194 393 6 871 148 426 Osečina 47 248 1 900 102 107 Ub 97 975 33 734 44 859 107 984

Websites:

1. Government of the Republic of Serbia http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu 2. Statistic Office of the Republic of Serbia http://www.statserb.sr.gov.yu 3. Republic Development Bureau http://www.razvoj.sr.gov.yu 4. Ministry of Economy and Regional Development http://www.merr.sr.gov.yu 5. Ministry of Finance http://www.mfin.sr.gov.yu 6. Serbian Chamber of Commerce http://pks.komora.net 7. Public Enterprise Roads of Serbia http://www.dzp.co.yu 8. Public Enterprise Serbian Railways http://www.zeleznicesrbije.com 9. Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency http://www.siepa.sr.gov.yu 10. Municipality of Valjevo http://www.valjevo.org.yu/valjevoe/indexe.htm 11. Municipality of Loznica http://www.lo.sr.gov.yu/ 12. Municipality of Sabac http://www.sabac.org/sr/index.php 13. Koridor 10 Info Pages http://www.pregled.com

Documents:

1. Survey: Municipalities in Serbia 2006. http://webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu/axd/ops.htm 2. Republic Development Bureau – Publications: • A Report on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and entrepreneurship in 2006 • 100 Most Successful Enterprises in Serbia in 2006 http://www.razvoj.sr.gov.yu/English/index.htm

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