Official presentation of the new-formed business zone and industrial park in the Municipality of Ub, Serbia, located by the Belgrade - South Adria highway.

1. MUNICIPALITY of UB, Serbia
www.opstinaub.org.rs
Business Zone Presentation

2. GEOGRAPHY
Municipality of Ub is located in West Serbia. It is
administrative part of Kolubara District, but is
influenced by macroregional center of Belgrade.
Bordering municipalities are Obrenovac, Lajkovac,
Valjevo, Koceljeva, Vladimirci i Lazarevac.
International airport “Nikola Tesla” Belgrade is just
55km away from the center of Ub City. Modern and
recently reconstructed road leads to it.
Port “Šabac” on Sava river and free trade and custom
zone is located 50 km or 1 hour drive from Ub.
Railroad Belgrade – Bar is 6 km away from the center
of Ub. Industrial railway is passing through the
municipality and leads form coal mine to the power plant
in Obrenovac.
Belgrade – South Adria Highway is passing through
the municipality. 25 km is its lenght.

3. NATURAL RESOURCES
Municipality has significant reserves of non-metallic
minerals (quartz sand in the estimated amount of
16.5 million tons; the estimated amount of clay of 3.8
million tons; limestone), to a lesser extent metallic
minerals as raw materials and energy, and bearing
lignite Kolubara basin. A number of sites are
exploited, a lot of them are in the process of
exploring the exploitation possibilities.
Mining Company “Kolubara” plans to open new
mining field “Radljevo” in 2014. Coal reserves at the
field are estimated at 330 million tons.
Exploitation of the field “Radljevo” will be performed
in accordance with the supplying needs of power
plant “Nikola Tesla A and B”, “Kolubara A” and TPP
“Kolubara B”, whose construction is widely
expected.
A significant resource of the municipality is the
lignite field “Zvizdar”. Research work in this field is
ongoing, and estimates of coal reserves are 280
million tons.

4. BUSINESS ZONE
Zone "Ub" (in formation) covers an area
of about 100 ha, together with the
planned road corridors, enabling the
availability and quality of transport
connectivity of the area.
Development of business zone is aimed
at construction of industrial parks,
storage facilities, environmentally
"clean" plants of small and medium
enerprises, commercial and
transportation services and logistics
centers.
Zone is defined by the Land use plan of
special purpose for infrastructure
corridor Belgrade-South Adriatic.

5. COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES
Nearby areas are already established industrial There are great opportunities for the development
facilities: The Regional Centre for solid waste of agricultural and food production systems due to
management (EU project worth about 20 million the quality and available raw materials.
euros), as well as power plant Kolubara A
(Vreoci) and B (Kalenić, under construction). Existing lakes and reclaimed surface mines in the
area near the zone provide opportunities for active
Zone, among other infrastructure facilities have rest for employees in zone and further development
the ability to connect to the district heating of the tourism potential of the municipality.
system and the regional water supply system.
The municipality of Ub achieved excellent
Existing and planned infrastructure: proximity to cooperation with the Agency for Promotion of
roads - highways, Ibar highway, a little distance Foreign Investment (SIEPA), National Association
from the city, rebuilt power grid, for Local Economic Development (NALED) and has
telecommunications developed ... extensive experience working on projects of the
European Union.
The project is in line with national and regional
development plans (Spatial Plan of the Republic of
Serbia, the Regional Spatial Plan of the City of
Belgrade ...).

6. BENEFITS FOR INVESTORS
This decision establishes the benefits which Municipality of Ub gives to
Municipality of Ub constantly investors for direct investments in form of:
undertakes intensive activities in order
to attract FDI. For this purpose, a 1) deduction or exemptions to their obligations determined by the decisions
of the Municipal Assembly of Ub:
decision was made on granting special (1) property tax;
benefits to investors. (2) the local utility fees;
(3) fees for the use of construction land;
(4) fees for land development;
Municipal Assembly of Ub in December (5) fee for the protection and improvement of the environment;
2008 adopted the decision on benefits (6) municipal administrative fees;
for investors of direct investment in the (7) lease of construction land.
Municipality of Ub, in the form of 2) co-financing the part of:
deduction or the exemption of certain (1) compensation for land use change,
liabilities. (2) urban development plans.
Benefits are provided based on the Newly employed Years of deduction / Amount of deduction /
workers exemption exemption in %
number of newly employed workers,
who must have permanent residence in 5 – 10 2 20
the Municipality of Ub for the entire
duration of benefits. 11 – 20 3 40
21 – 40 4 60
41 – 80 5 80
81 – 100 6 100

7. CONTACT
MUNICIPALITY of UB
Ulica 3. oktobra br. 4
14210 Ub, Serbia
Darko Glišić, the Mayor
+381 (64) 8160 724
predsednik@opstinaub.org.rs