Consent of the Chief State / City Architect

The designer prepares the conceptual design of the architectural project in line with the UTC. It is checked for compliance with the UTC in terms of shaping and materials and with the basic urban parameters: floor-area and site-coverage indices, number of floors or height, relation to the building line, as well as parking, greenery and purpose.

The application (Form 1) is submitted by the interested person. The conceptual design is accompanied by the opinion of the cultural-heritage authority on compliance with conservation conditions (Art. 24 para. 2). The application can be sent to the Ministry by e-mail to [email protected] (the registry office address given by eUprava), handed in at the registry office or sent by post. In the Capital City of Podgorica the whole procedure is possible electronically via the ePodgorica portal. Be sure to state the building's location, the investor and an exact postal or e-mail address for the reply. The administrative fee for the Ministry is €2, account 832-31624150-52, reference number 302.

Consent is issued by decision within 30 days and becomes an integral part of the main design (Art. 25). The decision and the conceptual design are published on the website within three days. A decision of the chief city architect can be appealed to the Ministry (15 days from receipt, under the Law on General Administrative Procedure, as the Capital City also states), and a decision of the chief state architect can be challenged by a lawsuit before the Administrative Court within 20 days of delivery (Art. 25 paras. 3–4, amendment 114/26).

The reviewer checks that the main design is consistent with the conceptual design (Art. 16). If the reviewer finds that the conceptual design does not comply with the UTC, he reports it to the urban planning inspector, and the deadline for correction is 30 days. If elements of the conceptual design change during construction, new consent is needed (Art. 48 para. 3). If the conceptual design was selected by public competition, the chief state architect (or the chief city architect, if the task has been entrusted to him) gives an opinion on the compliance of the main design, or the reviewed main design, with the top-ranked solution (Art. 22, amendment 114/26).