EPS Surface Mining Kosovo
Serbian coal surface mining company
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EPS Surface Mining Kosovo (Serbian: ЕПС Површински копови Косово) is a Serbian coal surface mining company with headquarters in Obilić, Kosovo.
Native name | ЕПС Површински копови Косово |
|---|---|
| Type | State-owned enterprise |
| Industry | Coal mining (de jure) |
| Founded | 21 December 1991 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Kosovo Serbia |
| Key people | Srđa Kovačević (Director) |
| Revenue |  €31.28 million (2022)[1] |
 (€1.38 million) (2022)[1] | |
| Total assets |  €14.40 million (2022)[2] |
| Total equity |  €0 (2022)[2] |
| Owner | Elektroprivreda Srbije (100%) |
Number of employees | 2,029 (2022) |
| Parent | Elektroprivreda Srbije |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes Business ID: 09135103 | |
History
EPS Surface Mining Kosovo was founded by Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) on 21 December 1991.[citation needed]
Following the Kosovo War and NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the UNMIK administration was established in Kosovo on 1 July 1999, and Elektroprivreda Srbije lost its access to the local coal mines and power plants, including Kosovo A and Kosovo B power plants, which were under jurisdiction of EPS Surface Mining Kosovo.[3]
Since then, government-owned Elektroprivreda Srbija by political decision continued to pay off earnings to all of Kosovo-based EPS companies, including EPS Surface Mining Kosovo employees (the other two EPS companies based on Kosovo are EPS TPP Kosovo and EPS Elektrokosmet).[4] However, all these employees are not working in Kosovo-based power plants, and are only occasionally and indirectly employed by EPS throughout the rest of Serbia.[4] As of May 2009, there was a total of around 7,000 such employees which were working only on paper and receive regular earnings.[5] As of June 2017, that number was cut to 4,539 employees.[4] As of August 2022, a total of 3,300 employees worked for these three companies.[6]
