Montenegro
Montenegro is an EU candidate country since 2010, while the accession negotiations between EU and Montenegro started in 2012 with the perspective for a membership in 2025.
Limited progress has been made in further aligning legislation with the EU acquis. Further efforts are still needed on implementation and enforcement, in particular on waste management, water quality, nature protection and climate change.
In December 2019, the framework law on climate change was adopted. In line with this law, a decree was adopted in February 2020, which ensures the establishment of a national carbon dioxide emissions trading system. Considerable work is still required to align with the EU acquis, such as to incorporate remaining elements of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), the Effort Sharing Regulation and the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MMR).
The main beneficiary institutions of TRATOLOW project in Montenegro is the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism and the Ministry of Capital Investments.