Licences
Similar to many developed countries, in Serbia some landscape architecture activities require the licence. Landscape architects in Serbia can get the licence of authorised planner, authorised town planner, authorised designer and authorised contractor. In the defining of the licence conditions, the professional association can have a significant part.
The licences in Serbia are regulated by the Law on planning and construction (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia 72/2009). The Law includes the Engineers' Chamber, which gathers the graduated engineers of various professions, who fulfil the conditions for getting a Licence. The conditions for a licence are:
- University education,
- work experience (for planners 5 years, and for designers and contractors minimum 3 years),
- professional examination,
- professional results (plans, projects, contracted structures, etc.),
- recommendations by the licensed engineers.
The Engineers' Chamber web-site offers the detailed information on the conditions of obtaining the licence.
The Engineers' Chamber of Serbia and Montenegro issues the following Licences to the graduated engineers of landscape architecture who satisfy the required conditions:
Licence 100: Authorised spatial planner;
Licence 201: Authorised town planner for the direction of town plan formulation;
Licence 373: Authorised designer for green space management;
Licence 474: Authorised contractor for management and landscaping of open and green spaces.
The Association expects that the formulation of the titles of the above Licences will be changed (especially the Licence authorised designer). The above titles were formulated without consulting the profession, so they are not satisfactory either in essence, or linguistically. The Association is trying to correct the defects.