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The Energy Ministry says Serbia's partnership with EDF and the French Development Agency will support staffing and studies for a nuclear programme. Minister Dubravka Đedović Handanović said the studies are due by mid-2027 to inform a later decision, while a first plant would only be possible after 2040.
The PIO Fund begins July pension payments on August 4 for self-employed pensioners, through accounts, post offices and delivery. Agricultural and military pensioners follow on August 5; employees receive payments through post offices from August 10 and accounts on August 11.
Milenijum tim has taken over management and financing of GFK Dubočica through a public-private partnership. The city of Leskovac retains a 30% stake in the new sports-business company and will continue to spend up to 35 million dinars a year on youth development.
NIS says it has started trial operation of small gas power plants at the Banatsko Miloševo and Srpska Crnja fields. Investment totals about RSD 2 billion, installed capacity is 5 MW, and expected annual output is 40.5 GWh—comparable, the company says, to the consumption of nearly 8,000 average households.
Vojvodina authorities declared a state of emergency in Sombor, Kula and Vrbas because of historically low Danube levels and adverse hydrological conditions. They allocated 270 million dinars for urgent measures and works to keep the Danube–Tisa–Danube system functioning; on July 29 the level reached −127 cm.
NIS has filed a new US Treasury request for an operating license. Its current OFAC license and MOL's negotiation permission expire on 31 July; no decision on the new request has been announced.
