The body primarily responsible for the consumption issue is the ministry responsible for environmental protection, i.e., the Federal Ministry for Development, Science and Environment, in cooperation with relevant Parliament and Government bodies. The other responsible federal institutions include the Institute for Standardization, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Labor and Health, Ministry for Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance. Legislation and Regulations Yugoslavia has ratified fifty-one international conventions, agreements and treaties relating to the issues of the environment, i.e., a lot of them cover some segment of consumption patterns. The Republics, Serbia and Montenegro, prohibit the application and use of technology products, semi-products or raw materials that are forbidden in the country of export or in the country in which they are produced. The environmental authorities support environmentally-friendly production and goods and combat those that are environmentally harmful.
Environmental fines play an important role in changing consumption and production patterns.
However, according to experience, the efficiency of this instrument has not been sufficiently significant. FYR has appropriate legislation and mechanisms regarding environmental impact assessment on the federal and republican levels. On the federal level the EIA in transboundary context is covered in the Law on the Basic Principles of the Environmental Protection. The degree of compliance of processes, products and services with technical regulations and standards will be checked by enterprises and other legal persons authorized to certify processes, products and services, quality systems, the environment protection system and by assessors of quality and environmental protection systems, testing products. The processes, products and services that must be accompanied with certificates on compliance are stipulated in the technical or other standards.