Transcript ECENA - Regional Environmental Center

Workshop on Benchmarking and Setting Environmental
Compliance and Enforcement Indicators
29-30 March, 2007,
Szentendre, Hungary.
Progress Monitoring in the environmental
sector in Montenegro
- Project Overview and Methodology-
Biljana Djurovic
Dragan Asanovic
Ministry of tourism and environmental protection
Montenegro
Benchmarking
• The MoTEP does not have parameters for
benchmarking in environmental compliance
and enforcement.
• The MoTEP is not useing benchmarking in
environmental compliance and enforcement
polices.
• The MoTEP does not collect data that would
help to promote best practices.
Progress Monitoring Project
DG Environment has signed a contract with
the Danish consultancy firm COWI to start, for
the first time, implementation of DG
Environment’s long-time project for progress
monitoring in the environmental sector in
Montenegro.
The overall objective of this project is to assist
both, the Commission and Montenegro with
tracking,assessing and documenting progress
in approximation in the environmental area.
Background - the EC perspective…
• Progress Monitoring Project has assisted
DG ENV to contribute to the reports since
1998
• EC reports each year to Council on
progress made by candidate in their
preparation for accession
• Current countries covered: candidate
(Croatia, Turkey, Macedonia) and precandidate countries (B&H, Serbia,
Montenegro, Albania)
PHASE
I PHASE
• collection of the information on progress in transposition and
implementation on the basis of “Tables of Concordance” and
“Implementation Questionnaires”, one each for the selected number
of environmental Directives.
• The basic input in this project phase will be provided by staff from
Ministry tourism and environment and other ministries and agencies
with responsibility for Directives which were covered by this Project.
• COWI will guide and assist the responsible staff in process filling in
the ToCs and IQs.
II PHASE
• The second phase involves assessment by COWI of the status of
transposition and implementation on the basis of the information and
data which will be generated. The assessment will take the form of a
progress Monitoring Country report. That report will be available to
us for comments before finalization.
Importance of the Project
• For candidate countries:
– Tools and support for tracking progress
in accession preparations, including in
transposition and implementation of
environmental law
• For "pre-candidates":
– A way of getting started with the
exercise for a limited number of
Directives, expanding to full scale in the
near future
Importance of the project…(ctd.)
• For the Commission:
– Support for DG ENV in collecting up-todate information on the status of
accession preparedness in the
environment sector
– For the EC + EC delegations and EAR
operational offices to identify the tasks
and needs also in terms of future EU
support
Tools for tracking progress in
approximation
• Tools:
Tables of Concordance (TOCs)
Implementation Questionnaires
(IQs)
• Guidance in Progress Monitoring
Manual
What are you expected to do?
• Fill out TOC’s and IQ’s
• Always provide the latest information
available!
– TOC’s: adoption of laws, stages in legislative
process, national legislation
– IQ’s: plans, infrastructure, budget, competent
authorities
• Ensure effective coordination per sector
• Review / update the draft PM Reports
Scope of Progress Monitoring
Seven sectors covered:
• Horizontal, Air, Waste, Water,
Nature, IPC, Chemicals.
Scope - directives and regulations
covered….
• Horizontal: EIA, SEA, Environmental Information, Public
Participation
• Air: Ambient Air Quality, Limit Values for SO2, NOx etc, Benzene and
Carbon Monoxide, Ozone in Ambient Air, Arsenic etc. in ambient air,
• Waste: Waste, Hazardous Waste, Sewage Sludge, Packaging
Waste, Landfill, Waste Incineration, Waste Shipment Regulation
• Water: Water Framework, Urban Waste Water, Drinking Water,
Nitrates, Shellfish Water
• Nature: Wild Birds, Habitats
• IPC: IPPC, COMAH, Large Combustion Plants
• Chemicals: Dangerous Substances, Risk Assessment Regulation,
Import and Export of Dangerous Chemicals Regulation, Biocides,
Contained Use of GMMs, Deliberate release of GMOs
Why are these selected?
Criteria behind selection:
• All major pieces of horizontal
legislation
• Framework legislation (waste, water,
air, IPPC)
• Investment-heavy directives
• Some country specific issues…
Progress Monitoring Tools - TOCs
Article
EU
Obligation
Existing
national law
(give relevant
law or
regulation &
no. of article)
Fully in
accord?
(yes/no)
If not, how
will
transpos’n
occur
(L,G,MO)
If draft,
give no. of
article
transposin
g EU
obligation
Status of
transpos’n
(5-0)
(accdg to
lawmaking
stage)
Planned
year for
full
transpos’n
• Article no. of EU obligation/requirement – is filled in
• EU Obligation – abbreviated version of Article text is filled in
• Existing national law – to be filled in if transposing legislation has
been adopted and is in force already
– give full title and full legal citation of relevant legal act
– Attach legislation if ENGLISH translation exists, or link to website etc.
Draft work schedule
Nov
Preparatory Meeting
x
Submission TOC/IQ formats
x
Introductory Workshop
x
Completion TOCs/IQ
formats
Follow-up meeting
Revision TOC/IQ formats
Dec
Jan
Feb
x
x
x
Mar
Apr
May Jun Jul
x
x
Draft country report
Montenegro
x
Draft country report
comments
x
Finalisation Montenegro
country report
x
Thank you for
your attention