EPS Surface Mining Kosovo

EPS Surface Mining Kosovo (Serbian: ЕПС Површински копови Косово) is a Serbian coal surface mining company with headquarters in Obilić, Kosovo.

EPS Surface Mining Kosovo

Native name	ЕПС Површински копови Косово
Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Coal mining (de jure)
Founded	21 December 1991; 33 years ago (1991-12-21)
Headquarters	Obilić , Kosovo
Area served	Kosovo Serbia
Key people	Srđa Kovačević (Director)
Revenue	€31.28 million (2022)[1]
Net income	(€1.38 million) (2022)[1]
Total assets	€14.40 million (2022)[2]
Total equity	€0 (2022)[2]
Owner	Government of Serbia (100%)
Number of employees	2,029 (2022)
Parent	Elektroprivreda Srbije
Website	www.eps.rs/lat/Pages/Ogranci.aspx

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]

See also

• Elektroprivreda Srbije
• EPS TPP Kosovo
• EPS Elektrokosmet
• Electrical energy in Kosovo