Blagojevic: Damage report on July 9

BELGRADE - Head of the Serbian government office for reconstruction Marko Blagojevic said on Sunday the final figures about the damage from the recent floods in Serbia will be known by July 9, and that the reconstruction of the damaged homes will begin in July and should be completed by September.

According to Blagojevic, the government is working on a new system to speed up the procurement process.

"A new law that will go into detail about the new procurement system should be before the government next week," he told Radio and Television of Serbia.

"The procurement process takes months, and if we followed the existing rules, we would not start working until September, which we cannot allow," he explained.

Based on the final appraisal, that is the report which will be presented on July 9, the government will ask for help from its international partners at a donor conference, he stated.

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