The outcome of the 14-year-long judicial proceedings, launched by the state prosecutor, is that the company has to pay HRK 525,000 as compensation for the environmental disaster which affected the flora and fauna in the two bays.
The ecological accident happened on 27 March 1995, contaminating 16 kilometers of the coastal stretch.
The municipal court in Rijeka passed the verdict on 22 November 2007, and the verdict was confirmed by the county court on 14 April 2010.
(EUR 1 = HRK 7.2)