English - Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production

Minimisation OpportunitiesEnvironmental Diagnosis(MOED)The evaluation of industrial activity requires apreliminary stage to detect opportunities for improvingand optimising processes. Through the MinimisationOpportunities Environmental Diagnosis (MOED),companies look more deeply into the knowledge oftheir activities to detect opportunities for pollutionprevention which are, in each case, technically andeconomically feasible.The MOED is a tested methodology applied in morethan 600 Mediterranean companies and which enablesraw materials and resources to be saved with shortpayback periods.Over these ten years, the RAC/CP has created supportmaterial to disseminate this methodology (manualsand CDs in Spanish, English, French and Arabic) andhas trained more than 450 technicians in thismethodology in workshops and courses carried outin different countries in the region.Regional Plan for thereduction of industrialhazardous wastein the MediterraneanA document written to help Mediterranean countriesto develop their National Action Plans in the frameworkof the Strategic Action Programme (SAP). Thisprogramme represents the adaptation of the principlesof the Global Action Programme of the United NationsEnvironment Programme and identifies the mainenvironmental problems of the region to fight againstpollution of a land-based source.The Plan carries out a classification of the main hazardouswaste and proposes a series of actions to be carried outat a regional as well as a national level for their effectivereduction.The Regional Plan for the reduction of hazardous wastewas approved by the Contracting Parties at the 13thMeeting of the Parties (Catania, November 2003).