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Interim Report, No 3, 19 September 2011 – 18 March 2012
representatives involved with monitoring might be considered as well. The emphasis should be
placed upon active field participants rather than administrative participants.
Activity 4.2 Country external assessments with a review of inspection and
enforcement powers
The specific objective of Activity 4.2 is to assess national, regional and local environmental capacity
covering the whole management cycle of policy, legislation, permitting, verification and control,
monitoring and reporting, focussing specifically on the issues of permitting, inspection and
enforcement.
In the period up to March 2012, seven country external assessment reports have been produced for
Serbia, Montenegro, fYR of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania. The reports for
Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99 and Turkey are under preparation.
During the next reporting period, the country assessments will be finalised and prepared for
website publishing. The series of reports will be placed on the RENA website to be available to
other networks and organisations who are interested.
The assessments are independent evaluations of national, regional and local environmental capacity
covering the whole management cycle of policy, legislation, permitting, verification and control,
monitoring and reporting. They cover all media and nature protection but focus more specifically
on pollution control, which is the primary area of IMPEL/ECENA interest. Inter-sectoral
approaches have been of increasing importance and continue to be so with the implementation of
the water framework directive as well as IPPC, for example.
Assessments are based on existing material plus intensive in-country discussion with the relevant
groups, at central and regional levels and locally where relevant, distinguishing (where practical)
between implementation practices related to broader national legislative requirements and those
responding to EU requirements, which are of primary interest to the project.
The desk study as a basis for the country assessments cover documents not only related to the
respective countries such as the progress monitoring reports but also those including IMPEL
review initiatives (IRI) reports that have been made for other countries (around 15 in total for EU
member states with Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Latvia as the latest ones). Here it should be
mentioned that IMPEL IRIs are concentrating on the inspection functions based on the RMCEI
whereas the external country assessments look also specifically at other elements of the regulatory
cycle.
Activity 4.3 EU ETS Compliance
Delivery of the regional workshop on EU ETS, Zagreb, Croatia (15 – 16 May 2012)
The following preparatory activities for delivery of the above workshop will be implemented in the
period March – April 2012:
Finalisation of training topics. The selection of topics has been finalised and are related to the
“chain of compliance” processes within the EU ETS:
• Permitting - Submission Monitoring Plan (MP) (art 4);
• Approval of MP by Competent Authority (art 5, 6 and 14);
• Implementation approved MP by Operator;
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