Environmental Policies, Enforcement and Compliance

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The 2008 Annual Meeting of the REPIN Network

10-Jun-2008

Environmental regulators and inspectors from twelve countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia and their counterparts from OECD countries, NGOs and industry will gather in Tashkent to share experience and decide on their joint actions in 2008-2011.

Translating Environmental Law into Practice: Progress in Modernising Environmental Regulation and Compliance Assurance in EECCA Countries

05-Sep-2007

Poor environmental compliance is symptomatic of policy failure and implies high costs for society, undermines the rule of law, and distorts the level playing field for businesses.
The current report, developed within the framework of the EAP Task Force’s Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network (REPIN), reviews progress in transposing the Guiding Principles into practice and provides recommendations on future action.
The report argues that EECCA countries need to pursue a better regulation process aimed at ambitious, but also fair, feasible, and clear environmental requirements.

Proposed System of Surface Water Quality Standards for Moldova

16-Feb-2007

The purpose of this report is to analyse the current Moldovan system of surface water quality standards and develop a proposal for an improved system, using relevant EU Directives as a benchmark and considering Moldova’s obligations under various international agreements. This new system of Surface Water Quality Standards (SWQS) will be discussed it in a series of stakeholder workshops in Moldova

Review of Funding of Environmental Compliance Assurance released

27-Sep-2005

A comprehensive review of funding of environmental assurance systems is now available. It has been carried out to respond to enforcement officials' request for support to develop financial strategies and management regimes for enforcement agencies that follow the principles of effectiveness and efficiency. The review covers the application of cost-recovery, polluter pays, and other sound principles of public policies together with better mechanisms for cost assessment, improving financial management and budget allocations, as well as increasing efficiency of enforcement activities.

Inspectors Toolkit

24-Feb-2005

The Inspectors Toolkit has been published in 2005. It covers a wide range of management, procedural and substantive aspects of enforcement and compliance. This comprehensive training and methodological material has been developed by the OECD/EAP Task Force on the basis of best international practice to support improvements and help build the capacity of environmental inspectorates in transition economies.

Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Authorities in Transition Economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia adopted at the Ministerial Meeting in Kiev

Environmental Ministers from the whole Europe, the US and Canada in their Declaration adopted at the Conference in May 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine adopted "Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Authorities in Transition Economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)" as a basis for true institutional restructuring and rebuilding enforcement and compliance assurance systems following the crisis that touched the region in the 1990s.

English-Russian Glossary of terms used in environmental enforcement and compliance promotion

11-Mar-2003

This English-Russian Glossary aims seeks to provide a common understanding of the terminology, used by environmental enforcement authorities, and enable users across Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia to communicate easier with their partners from the OECD countries.

Guiding Principles for Effective Environmental Enforcement Authorities in EECCA

07-Mar-2003

A candidate for Category 1 document at the Kiev 2003 Ministerial Conference As a non-binding guidance, this document has been developed to serve the environmental ministries and enforcement authorities in transition economies..

Background Paper on Improving Environmental Legislation, Policies and Institutions in the NIS for the NIS Environmental Strategy to be presented at the Ministerial Conference in Kiev in March 2003.

29-Nov-2002

This Draft Background Paper has been prepared for the "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference in Kiev. It addresses the critical environmental policy, regulatory, and institutional reforms in the NIS, all of which are part of a larger process of development of good governance.

Forthcoming regional Workshop "Advancing Coherent Reforms of Environmental Policy Instruments in the NIS: Experience and Roadmap for the Future", 3-4 December 2002.

31-Oct-2002

The NIS Regional Workshop will take place at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. The workshop will bring together NIS policy-makers and experts to discuss ways to improve the process of reforming environmental policy instruments in the NIS.