Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-06-29
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[01] Environment minister: International tendering on Greece's mineral
resources soon
[01] Environment minister: International tendering on Greece's mineral
resources soon
ANA-MPA - The Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister Yiannis
Maniatis announced on Friday that the Ministry will very soon launch
international tenders on the research and exploitation of Greece's
mineral wealth.
Maniatis, addressing a conference on mineral wealth, said the report
of the relevant committee set for the recording of the 'mature' areas
offered for immediate exploitation will be completed very soon and based
on this report the tenders will open "in order to develop hidden values
of tens of billions of euros in Greece's subsoil," as the minister said.
Moreover, a series of changes in the legislation are promoted aiming at
the simplification of the quarries licencing and the modernisation of
the mining code.
Greece does not have the luxury to relinquish any source of wealth and
announced the interconnection of the Institute of Geology and Mineral
Exploration (IGME) with the Universities as well as the reorientation
of the Research and Technology General Secreteriat funds towards this
direction.
The Greek Commissioner for Fisheries Maria Damanaki underlined EU's
high dependence from the imported raw materials and noted the need for
recycling and re-usage of materials, while underlining the importance of
the development of the underwater mineral resources despite its high cost.
[In photo, Damanaki (L) and Maniatis (R)]
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