Serbia

In 2024, Serbia reduced one third of its known mined area through technical survey (TS). However, it had planned to complete clearance of all remaining known mined area during the year and conduct non-technical survey (NTS) of previously unrecorded mined areas by January 2025. Serbia did not meet this target, which is partly due to a shift in donor priorities towards clearance of cluster munition remnants (CMR). The NTS was initially scheduled for 2023 and Serbia aimed to develop a work plan for completion of survey and clearance based on the results of the NTS by October 2025, allowing TS and clearance to begin in November. As at October 2025, an NTS team had started conducting desk assessments and was set to undergo training, with planned accreditation in November.

• Serbia should consider inviting demining NGOs to help meet its treaty obligations.

• Serbia should, as a matter of priority and without further delay, survey the suspected contamination identified in 2019 and 2021 to determine the size of the mined areas and plan for their release.

• SMAC should undertake NTS and TS rather than full clearance in instances where survey represents the most efficient means to release part or all of mined areas.

• SMAC should seek to develop additional national mine action standards and adopt the new mine action decree.

• Serbia should clarify whether suspected improvised devices around Jamena village, which remain from the 1991–95 conflicts, meet the definition of an anti-personnel (AP) mine.

Click here to download the "Clearing the Mines 2025" report for Serbia.