Serbia’s parliament said it has adopted amendments to the country’s energy law, lifting a ban on the construction of nuclear power plants in the country.
The amendments were approved in a 145-2 vote with one abstention in the 250-seat parliament on 27 November, according to a broadcast of the session uploaded on the parliament's YouTube channel.
The amendments repeal a law prohibiting the construction of nuclear power plants, which was adopted in 1989 in former Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.
In September Serbia’s ministry of mining and energy awarded a contract to French state-owned EDF and French engineering firm Egis Industries to conduct a preliminary technical study on the potential introduction of nuclear energy in the Balkan country.
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