EPS Surface Mining Kosovo

EPS Surface Mining Kosovo (Serbian: ЕПС Површински копови Косово) is a Serbian coal surface mining company with headquarters in Obilić, Kosovo.

EPS Surface Mining Kosovo
Native name
ЕПС Површински копови Косово
State-owned enterprise
IndustryCoal mining (de jure)
Founded21 December 1991 (1991-12-21)
Headquarters
Obilić
,
Kosovo[lower-alpha 1]
Area served
Kosovo
Serbia
Key people
Srđa Kovačević
(Director)
Revenue €34.74 million (2018)[1]
€0.17 million (2018)[1]
Total assets €15.21 million (2018)[2]
Total equity €0 (2018)[2]
OwnerGovernment of Serbia (100%)
Number of employees
2,315 (2018)
ParentElektroprivreda Srbije
Websitewww.eps.rs/lat/Pages/Ogranci.aspx

History

EPS Surface Mining Kosovo was founded by Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) on 21 December 1991.

Following the Kosovo War and NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the UNMIK administration was established in Kosovo on 1 July 1999, and Elektroprivreda Srbije lost its access to the local coal mines and power plants, including Kosovo A and Kosovo B power plants, which were under jurisdiction of EPS Surface Mining Kosovo.[3]

Since then, government-owned Elektroprivreda Srbija by political decision continued to pay off earnings to all of Kosovo-based EPS companies, including EPS Surface Mining Kosovo employees (the other two EPS companies based on Kosovo are EPS TPP Kosovo and EPS Elektrokosmet).[4] However, all these employees are not working in Kosovo-based power plants, and are only occasionally and indirectly employed by EPS throughout the rest of Serbia.[4] As of May 2009, there was a total of around 7,000 such employees which were working only on paper and receive regular earnings.[5] As of June 2017, that number was cut to 4,539 employees.[4]

See also

Notes
  1. Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References
  1. "БИЛАНС УСПЕХА (2018) - EPS Surface Coal Mining Kosovo". apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  2. "БИЛАНС СТАЊА (2018) - EPS Surface Coal Mining Kosovo". apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  3. "About Us". eps.rs. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  4. "Koliko EPS plaća parolu "Kosovo je srce Srbije"". insajder.net (in Serbian). Insajder. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  5. "Sindikat EPS-a: Šta sutra i dokle ovako?". radiokim.net (in Serbian). 1 May 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2018.



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