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The role of Misdemeanour offences in Croatian Enforcement Practice
Types of Misdemeanour legal sanctions:
�penalty (financial and prison penalties)
�warning measures (reprimand and conditional conviction)
�protective measures
�educational measures
The role of Misdemeanour offences in Croatian Enforcement Practice
� Environmental inspectors or any other inspectors in the environmental
sector do not have any discretion whether or not to initiate criminal and
misdemeanour charges
� They have to submit indictment proposals in each and every case of non
compliance
� Nevertheless in practice the rate of issued enforcement decision due to
non compliance is much higher than the rate of initiated misdemeanour
proposals
� MEPPPC aims at raising awareness for this problem and increase the rate
of recognition and prosecution of environmental misdemeanour cases
The role of Misdemeanour offences in Croatian Enforcement Practice
MEPPPC Annual Statistic
Certain level of non-compliance detected during inspections:
� 2007-1926 inspector’s decisions out of 6202 site visits
(around 32 %)
� 2008-2368 inspector’s decisions out of 6654 site visits
(around 28 %)
� 2009-2039 inspector’s decisions out of 6892 site visits
(around 34 %)
RENA Activity 1.2 RISP 1st Regional Workshop, 30-31 May 2011, Zagreb, Croatia
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