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Environmental
Enforcement Indicators
Report
Title: Handbook
for the Implementation of EU Environmental Legislation
Source: Progress Monitoring on Approximation in the Candidate
Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Author: European Commission’s Directorate-General for
Environmental Protection
Web Link: European
Union
Date of report
review: October 13, 2001
Report notes:
- The Handbook
is designed to provide a planning framework, and step-by-step
guidance, on the approaches and specific activities required to
implement EC environmental legislation.
- The Handbook
provides:
- a series
of overview chapters which set out a framework for planning
the implementation of the legislation contained with a particular
environmental sector such as waste management, nature protection,
air quality, international co-operation and others.
- a series
of fiches containing information and guidance about each legal
act presented in the Acquis Guide [Approximation Guide].
- a reference
source.
- The Handbook
is prepared for officials, which have the responsibilities for
planning, managing, monitoring and implementing the environmental
laws and programs. The Handbook covers 83 legislative orders (directives,
regulations, and decisions).
- The process
of approximation involves three elements:
- transposition
of legislation
- implementation
- enforcement
- Effective
implementation and enforcement requires: reliable data collection
systems, effective systems and institutions for monitoring and
reporting emissions and environmental quality and inspections,
procedures and tools for raising environmental awareness of industry
and the public, institutions and procedures facilitating public
participation, administrative and judicial recourse for violations,
training of staff and affected sectors of society, adequate funding.
- The accession
planning process is driven by the National Programmme for the
Adoption of the Acquis (NPAA). This tool sets out each individual
legal instrument of each environmental sector of transposition,
implementation, and enforcement, specifically:
- Current
situation,
- Short-term
priorities,
- Medium
term priorities,
- Institution
building needs, and
- Estimate
of financial needs.
Suggested
initiatives: n/a
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