Data-center law in Kosovo

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Kosovo has no data-centre-specific siting, permitting, or utility statute; a data-centre project is governed by the general construction-permitting framework.

Law No. 04/L-110 on Construction requires a building permit, graded by risk category, before any construction, reconstruction, or demolition in Kosovo, issued by the competent municipality for Category I and II construction and by the Ministry for Category III; three later laws (Nos. 08/L-176, 08/L-276 and 08/L-283, 2023-2024) amend it to harmonize its administrative and misdemeanor procedure with Kosovo's general administrative-procedure and misdemeanor codes.

Kosovo's original Law No. 03/L-214 on Environmental Impact Assessment was repealed and replaced by Law No. 08/L-181 (2023); the Official Gazette's record for the replacement law carries only a title, with no operative text in the copies checked, so its current environmental-review regime is not described here. An energy-licensing statute, a water-utilities statute, and an investment-incentive statute that may also govern a data-centre project in Kosovo have not been located.

Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Construction

What codes and permits govern the build itself?

Construction Law, Building Permit Regime

In force

Law No. 04/L-110 on Construction, arts. 2, 15, 19

Effective 2012-07-18 · Applies to both

Law No. 04/L-110 on Construction regulates the construction, reconstruction, and demolition of every building in Kosovo and requires a building permit and a use certificate before construction may proceed, unless another special law provides otherwise.

Every construction is classified into one of three risk categories, from Category I (low risk) to Category III (high risk and of national interest), and the competent authority for issuing the permit follows the category: the municipality for Category I and II, and the Ministry for Category III.

The law leaves the manner, procedure, and amount of a fine for a violation to a separate Ministry administrative act, reviewed and published in the Official Gazette annually, rather than setting a figure itself, and reserves criminal as well as financial penalties, under the Criminal Code of Kosovo, for a responsible official or inspector at the competent authority who acts contrary to the law.

Three later laws, Nos. 08/L-176 (2023), 08/L-276 (2024) and 08/L-283 (2024), amend this law to harmonize its administrative and misdemeanor procedure with the general Law on Administrative Procedure and the Law on Misdemeanors; their operative text is not reproduced in the copies checked, so whether they touch the specific articles cited here beyond that procedural harmonization is not confirmed.

Source: Full text of law

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