Priključili su. Naplatili. Pregledali, dvaput. Pa kaznili korisnika što je to koristio. They connected it. They charged for it. They approved it, twice. Then they fined the customer for using it.

Zašto baš ovde Why here

Čovek iz dijaspore, rođen daleko od Srbije: trezven, severnjački mentalitet u glavi, ali srce koje je svako leto putovalo na jug. Duga letovanja gastarbajterske dece: pun auto, miris puta, granica, iščekivanje dolaska. Devedesete i rane dvehiljadite, godine u kojima se osećao najviše svojim. Taj osećaj, život između dve zemlje i kofer koji se nikad do kraja ne raspakuje, retko ko u samoj Srbiji sasvim razume, ni oni koji su je poslednjih dvadeset godina napustili. A man from the diaspora, born far from Serbia: a sober, northern mindset, but a heart that travelled south every summer. The long holidays of the guest-workers' children: a packed car, the smell of the road, the border, the thrill of arriving. The nineties and the early two-thousands, the years he felt most himself. That feeling, a life between two countries and a suitcase that never quite gets unpacked, few people in Serbia itself ever fully understand, not even those who left it over the past twenty years.

Decenijama radi i gradi život u inostranstvu, ali korene nikad nije zaboravio. Mogao je da uloži bilo gde: tamo gde živi, bilo gde u svetu. Izabrao je Srbiju, ne kao gost, nego s namerom da se jednog dana, možda, baš tu i nastani. Vratio se svojim korenima i podigao kuću u šabačkom kraju, da uloži tamo odakle potiče i da nešto ostavi svojoj zemlji. For decades he worked and built a life abroad, but he never forgot his roots. He could have invested anywhere: where he lives, anywhere in the world. He chose Serbia, not as a guest, but meaning one day, perhaps, to settle there for good. He returned to his roots and built a house in the Šabac region, to invest where he came from and leave something to his homeland.

Uradio je sve kako treba: priključak zatražio, platio (44.633,12 din), pa sačekao da EDS izvede radove. Priključak je obezbedila Elektrodistribucija Srbije, ogranak Šabac. Sedam godina uredno plaća svaki kilovat. Tako se, valjda, gradi poverenje između građanina i države. He did everything right: requested the connection, paid for it (44,633.12 din), then waited for EDS to do the work. The connection was provided by Elektrodistribucija Srbije, Šabac branch. For seven years he paid for every kilowatt on time. That, supposedly, is how trust between a citizen and the state is built.

A onda je ta ista EDS njegov trud i poverenje pretvorila u kaznu od 343.320,65 dinara, i u mesece jurnjave po šalterima. Then that same EDS turned his effort and his trust into a fine of 343,320.65 dinars, and into months of running from counter to counter.

Poruka svakome iz dijaspore ko sanja da uloži u svoju zemlju: pazi kome veruješ. Dobro došao kući. A message to anyone in the diaspora who dreams of investing back home: be careful who you trust. Welcome home.

Šta je EDS sam uradio, i šta je onda uradio What EDS did itself, and what it did next

Iste ruke, isti pečat. Zeleno, sve što je EDS sam, po svom poslu, uredno uradio. Crveno, obrt. The same hands, the same stamp. Green, everything EDS did itself, by the book. Red, the reversal.

1. Primio zahtev, nije ga odbio.Accepted the request, did not refuse it.
2. Sklopio ugovor i naplatio priključenje (44.633,12 din).Signed a contract and charged the connection fee (44,633.12 din).
3. Tehnički pregled, „zadovoljava“ (1×).Technical inspection, “passed” (1×).
4. Tehnički pregled, „zadovoljava“ (2×) + ugovor o snabdevanju.Technical inspection, “passed” (2×) + supply contract.
5. Ugradio i očitavao brojilo.Installed and read the meter.
6. Deset meseci uredno fakturisao.Billed regularly for ten months.
7. Proglasio „neovlašćenu potrošnju“.Declared “unauthorized consumption.”
8. Isključio kuću, bez najave, bez prisustva, bez potpisanog zapisnika.Cut off the house, no notice, no presence, no signed record.
9. Paušal: 12.368 kWh → 343.320,65 din.Flat estimate: 12,368 kWh → 343,320.65 din.
10. Direktor pismeno: rešenja nema, plombi nema, a baš to rešenje EDS je sam morao da izda.Director in writing: no decision, no seals, yet that very decision was EDS’s own to issue.
11. Obračun zatezne kamate, na kaznu bez rešenja.A default-interest charge, on a fine with no decision.

Šest zelenih koraka su njihovi. I pet crvenih su njihovi. A kazna je za korisnika. The six green steps are theirs. The five red ones are theirs too. Yet the fine is for the customer.

Upoznajte paradoks Meet the paradox

Četiri šešira. Jedna glava. Isto preduzeće. Four hats. One head. The same company.

Postoji pravno načelo staro koliko i pravo samo: ko nešto sam učini, ne može se posle žaliti da je to učinio neko drugi. Na latinskom se zove venire contra factum proprium. Na srpskom je još jednostavnije: ne možeš da se buniš na sopstveni rad. There is a legal principle as old as law itself: you cannot do something yourself and then complain that someone else did it. In Latin it is called venire contra factum proprium. In plain words: you can’t object to your own work.

Ima i bonus-paradoks. U EDS-ovoj evidenciji staro brojilo, ono koje je njihova ekipa lično skinula, i dalje se vodi kao „aktivno“. A novo brojilo, ono koje su sami ugradili, „ne vodi se u evidenciji“. Dakle: brojilo kojeg fizički nema, radi. Brojilo koje rade, ne postoji. Negde između ta dva brojila živi kazna od 343.320,65 dinara. There is a bonus paradox too. In EDS’s records the old meter, the one their own crew physically removed, is still listed as “active.” And the new meter, the one they installed themselves, “is not in our records.” So: the meter that no longer exists, works. The meter that works, does not exist. Somewhere between those two meters lives a fine of 343,320.65 dinars.

Kamata na ništa Interest on nothing

Rešenja nema. Konkretne optužbe nema. Ali kamata, kamata ima. Stigao je i poseban obračun zatezne kamate (2.457,33 din) na kaznu iza koje ne stoji nijedno rešenje. Drugim rečima: naplaćuju vam kamatu zato što niste platili dug za koji još niko nije dokazao ni da postoji. There is no decision. No concrete accusation. But interest, there is interest. A separate default-interest charge arrived (2,457.33 din) on a fine with not a single decision behind it. In other words: they bill you interest for not paying a debt no one has yet proven exists.

Kamata na ništa, ali tačno na vreme. Interest on nothing, but right on schedule.

Potvrda o sopstvenom radu Certificate of own work

Muzej odobrenog apsurda Museum of approved absurdity

Dokumenti postoje i čuvaju se. Ovde stoje samo kao tipovi, sve što identifikuje je uklonjeno. (Slike se dodaju tek nakon pravne provere redakcije.) The documents exist and are kept. Here they stand only as types, everything identifying is removed. (Images are added only after a legal redaction review.)

Poslednji okvir je prazan, jer takvog rešenja nema. The last frame is empty, because no such decision exists.

Nemoguće stvari današnje Srbije The impossibilities of Serbia today

Ovaj slučaj nije izolovan. Odvija se tamo gde je određena vrsta nemogućnosti postala uobičajena. This case is not isolated. It unfolds where a certain kind of impossibility has become routine.

• Moguće je da ne postoji rešenje, ali postoji dug.It is possible that no decision exists, yet a debt does.
• Nema plombi, ali postoji kazna.No seals, yet a fine.
• Nema prisustva vlasnika, ali postoji „zapisnik“.No owner present, yet a “record.”
• Postoji žalba, ali ne postoji odgovor.There is an appeal, but no answer.
• Sedam godina postoji uredno, plaćeno brojilo, ali postoji i procedura iz koje se ne izlazi.For seven years there is a proper, paid meter, yet also a procedure with no way out.

Distribucija struje je praktično monopol jedne državne kompanije; spor se „rešava“ unutar iste vertikale koja je i odlučila. Pritužba vrhu izvršne vlasti redovno se vraća upravo onom ogranku na koji se i odnosi. Jedna inspekcija se proglašava nenadležnom, druga ćuti. A povratniku iz dijaspore poruka je posebno hladna: uloži, gradi, priključi se uredno, čuvaj svaki papir, i opet možeš završiti pred šalterom koji te vraća onome ko je problem napravio. Sedam godina je već postojalo monofazno brojilo, uredno i plaćeno, a korisnik je ipak zaglavljen u proceduri. Problem nije struja, problem je sistem. Electricity distribution is in practice the monopoly of a single state-owned group; the dispute is “resolved” inside the very vertical that decided it in the first place. A complaint to the top of the executive is routinely sent back to the very branch it concerns. One inspectorate declares itself not competent, another stays silent. And to a diaspora returnee the message is especially cold: invest, build, connect properly, keep every document, and still end up before a counter that sends you back to whoever created the problem. A single-phase meter had already existed for seven years, in order and paid for, and yet the customer is stuck in the procedure. The problem is not the electricity, it is the system.

Ovo je satira samo po tonu. Dokumenti nisu satirični. This is satire only in tone. The documents are not.

Javni izvori (sistemski kontekst, ne ovaj predmet):Public sources (systemic context, not this case):

• Evropska komisija, Izveštaj o Srbiji 2024 (ključni nalazi)
• World Bank, Reforming Serbian State-Owned Enterprises (2023)
• Energy Community, Addressing Energy Poverty (2024)
• Vreme, Veći računi za struju: izvršitelji ako se žalite?
• Balkan Green Energy News, Transformation of EPS sparks controversies

Izvori provereni: 12.06.2026.Sources verified: 12 June 2026.

Struja je isključena. Dokumenti nisu. The power is cut. The documents are not.