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ECENA 3rd Plenary meeting
September 18-19, 2008
Istanbul, Turkey
Major activities of the Serbian
inspectorate from September 2007 the second plenary meeting in
Brussels, Belgium
Svetlana Parežanin, head of Department
Sector for control and surveillance
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''Guidebook for operators
through environmental
regulations''
•Published by Inspectorate
•At the end of December 2007
•The aim of the book is
to guide operators through
environmental legislation,
to increase the level of
compliance,
to be used as manual for
judges and public prosecutors
for better enforcement of the
environmental laws.
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Trainings for local selfgovernment decision makers
• WHY
– In order to increase administrative capacity of local selfgovernment for better implementation of environmental laws
• WHO
– Inspectorate in cooperation with Standing Conference of Towns
and Municipalities (SCTM) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Technische Zusammenarbeit- Project „Modernization of Municipal
Services“ (GTZ)
• WHAT
– 11 meetings with local self-government managers and decision
makers in all Serbian districts (11 towns), in February and March
2008. About 180 participants were present at these meetings
• TOPICS
– Current situation about local staff - educational profile and
number of local inspectors and employees in the field of
environment
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Trainings for local self-government
decision makers – cont.
• TOPICS – cont.
– Authority decentralization (retrospective view on current laws and
laws that should be adopted in future),
– Organization of the Ministry, including the scheme of
Inspectorate,
– Proposal of organization of local environmental authorities
(scheme description),
– Challenges in enforcement of environmental law (lack of
personnel or inadequate personnel in municipalities)
General conclusion was that
there is a need for increase
in number of local
environmental inspectors
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„Guidelines“
• „Guidelines for the Environmental Protection in the Local SelfGovernment: enactment of laws at the local level“ was published
in May 2008 as product of those meetings
• Specific guide through the delegated
activities prescribed by the law
• It gives a clear overview of sanctions
arising from these laws
• It explains the role and place of
inspection in putting the laws into effect,
• It provides an insight into possibilities of
financing projects from the Fund for
Environmental Protection
• It offers a schematic presentation of an
optimum organization of the local
self-government, required for an efficient implementation of the
laws, as proposed by the Inspectorate of MESP
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Trainings for judges and public
prosecutors
•WHAT
–3 trainings ’’Support to enforcement
of the environmental protection
legislation” were organized by
Inspectorate during 2008
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● WHY
– to increase awareness of judges and public prosecutors on
environmental issues and better enforcement of environmental
laws (i.e. attaining faster proceeding and timely reaction of
judiciary to inspector’s files)
• WHO
– with participation of M.Dimovski, Senior Project Manager /Topic
Area Leader of ECENA Secretariat, and with support of OSCD
– about 100 people from Ministry of Justice have been trained
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New organization
• 8 departments within the Inspectorate:
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D. for environmental pollution protection,
D. for hazardous and other waste management control,
D. for nature and natural resources protection,
D. for inspection cooperation with international networks, local
self-government and integrated approach on the border,
D. for accidents,
D. for waters and fishery,
D. of republic construction inspection,
D. for urbanistic inspection
It provides specialization of inspectors for certain fields of
work (e.g. pollution control, waste, IPPC, accidents,
nature and natural resources protection and fishing)
• new systematization anticipates 191 employees within
the Inspectorate, introducing the water management,
construction and spatial planning inspectors
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1st NATIONAL ECENA TRAINING
“Cadastre of polluters, SEVESO
II and IPPC Directives”
• With support of ECENA and according to multi
annual working program of the Network organized
by Serbian inspectorate
• WHEN21-23.4.2008. on Tara
• WHO participation of 30 republic environmental inspectors
1 international expert, 5 lecturers from Inspectorate
1 lecturer from IPPC Dept. and 1 lecturer from SEPA
• TOPICS :
 IPPC implementation in Serbia,
 Seveso II directive, with regards to national legislation and
also sharing
the experience
ECENA 18-19,
training2008
program
3rd Plenary
Meeting,from
September
on March 17-21, 2008, Istanbul,
in Bristol,
UK
Turkey
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1st NATIONAL ECENA TRAINING
 Investigations of the environmental crime,
collecting the evidences and limitations during the
criminal prosecution
 Cooperation with local self-governments
(decentralization of competences, proposal for
organization of local environmental authorities,
challenges in implementation of the environmental
laws on local level with practical examples)
 Presentation of the Regulation on methodology
for Cadastre of polluters, and other topics with
regards to Cadastre relative to Inspectorate
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Participation in trainings
organized or supported by ECENA
Name, Organization
1.
Training workshop - Developing and
Operating EPER/E-PRTR Systems in
ECENA member countries
EPER/E-PRTR module of ECENA
ECENA
Duration and
place
No. of
particip.
15-17.10.2007.
1 MSEP
Szentendre,
2 SEPA
Hungary
4.12.2007.
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2.
Brussels,
Belgium
IMPEL-TSF Enforcement Actions project 05-08.12.2007.
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3.
IMPEL- TFS,
Brussels,
ECENA support
Belgium
Training of inspectors on LCP and
17.-21.3.2008.
3 MSEP
4.
SEVESO II Directive and E-PRTR,
Bristol, Great
2 SEPA
ECENA
Britain
Green Force Plenary Session,
ECENA support
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Participation in trainings
organized or supported by ECENA
– cont.
Name, Organization
Duration and
place
National training of Serbian inspectors
21 – 23.4.2008
5. “Cadastre of polluters, SEVESO II and
Tara
IPPC Directives”, ECENA, MSEP
6.
No. of
particip.
35
Working session
3. - 6.6.2008.
Green force network, ECENA support Laufen, Germany
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June 30 – July 2,
2008,
Budapest,
Hungary
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ECENA Train the Trainer Programme
7. on Waste Landfill Directive and Waste
Incineration Directive, ECENA
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ATTENTION!
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