The agreement on the Druzba Adria project, which was signed by the previous government, envisages the transport of oil from Russia via six countries to the port of Omisalj on the northern Adriatic island of Krk. The Zagreb Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering and the Oceanography Institute from Split have drawn up a study on the environmental effects of the project.
The commission "Justitia et Pax" said that all legal deadlines for the evaluation of the study had been broken several times and voiced concern with the fact that the initiator of the project, the JANAF company, was allowed to amend the study on two occasions.
Such a lenient attitude of the authorities is additionally worsened by the fact that Croatia, as a candidate for EU membership, is in this case ignoring EU recommendations that oil be transported via land and not by sea as well as EU regulations on the assessment of the environmental effects of such projects, the commission said in the statement.