Croatia left 140,000 tonnes of slag containing radioactive and hazardous substances beside village homes and was fined by the EU Court of Justice for failing to comply with a 2019 ruling
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From 2010 about 140,000 tonnes of stone aggregate containing dangerous substances and radioactivity above permitted levels was dumped near homes in Biljane Donje, near Benkovac, with little action by Croatian authorities. The EU Court of Justice ruled in May 2019 (C-250/18) that the material was waste Croatia was required to manage safely; on 6 March 2025 (C-315/23) the Court found Croatia had still not complied after almost six years, that it decided to clean up the site only after the Commission sued a second time in 2023, and ordered a €1 million lump sum plus €6,500 per day of further delay. Faktograf reported in August 2026 that the cleanup, begun in summer 2025, had just been completed and that Croatia paid roughly €4.4 million in penalties; it also reported that a 2015 environment-ministry order to the private owner to remove the slag had gone unenforced.
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Hrvatska je zbog nečinjenja platila oko 4,4 milijuna eura kazne
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