The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) operates in Serbia as an international organisation, following the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the REC and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of FR Yugoslavia in June 2001.
REC Serbia envisions a democratic, developed, and environmentally sustainable society for Serbia and Montenegro as being an integral part of Europe.
REC Serbia follows the REC’s strategic goals, taking into account the specific circumstances of Serbia as a pre-accession country to the EU.
The strategic goals of REC Serbia are:
- To provide high quality, innovative, demand-driven services to stakeholders, aimed at the greatest environmental benefits for both Serbia's and the globe, and to implement sustainable development in practice
- To provide, at and between national and local levels, a neutral platform for dialogue, networking and cooperation among stakeholders and partners
- To maintain the organisation’s independent character through a successful model of governance, international legal status in Serbia, diversified funding and quality of work
- To continue the organisation’s proactive development, thus enabling the delivery of its mission in Serbia’s rapidly changing contexts of political, social and economic reconstruction.