Key Products of the Environmental Policies, Enforcement and Compliance Programme

• Developing Effective Packages of Environmental Policy Instruments – the report analyses the shortcomings of existing policy instruments and suggests how they can be reformed using policy package (mixes) that would allow environmental authorities to co-ordinate reform of existing instruments and add new ones in order to develop environmentally effective, administratively efficient and targeted programmes to pursue clearly established policy goals and address priority problems.
• Review of Economic Instruments in EECCA – this document reviews a wide range of economic instruments applied in EECCA countries for pollution control and natural resources management. Using an analytical framework developed within OECD, it proposes recommendations for strengthening of their use.  
• Streamlining the Use of Economic Instruments of Environmental Policy in the Rostov Oblast, Russia – This report presents an analysis of priority measures to improve economic instruments of environmental policy in the Rostov Oblast that are identified in the 2001 Regional Environmental Action Plan (REAP).
• Linkages between Environmental Assessment and Environmental Permitting in the Context of the Regulatory Reform in EECCA Countries - this paper has been developed with a view to assist reforms of environmental assessment and environmental permitting in EECCA countries. It discusses the relationship between the two instruments in effective environmental governance systems and makes recommendations for a co-ordinated reform of these instruments in the region.
• Strategic Guidance for Convergence of NIS Environmental Legislation with EU Directives – provides a road-map for convergence of environmental legislation across the EECCA towards EU directives.. The report identifies the EU Directives that could feasibly be targeted for covergence in the forthcoming years, given the environmental priorities and existing implementation capacity in the EECCA countries. The report identifies preliminary priorities that could help to target further technical assistance at the regional or national level.

Reports on Environmental Enforcement and Compliance

• Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Agencies in EECCA: a concise policy document that identifies guiding principles and key structural elements of effective environmental enforcement systems, tailor-made to the EECCA context. This document aims to assists EECCA to identify targets for institutional development in individual countries as regards environmental enforcement and compliance promotion. The Principles are addressed to environmental ministries, central and regional enforcement agencies.
• An Update of the Survey on Enforcement and Compliance in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: The update of the Survey on Current Practices in Environmental Enforcement and Compliance Promotion in EECCA is a complimentary document to the Principles.  While the Principles will state the desired situation, the Survey scrutinises it in comparison with the actual situation in the EECCA region and assesses recent changes in environmental enforcement systems.
• Synthesis Report on Environmental Permitting Systems in the NIS: This document describes major features of the environmental permitting systems in EECCA, identifies deficiencies and screens the needs and potential to reform these systems.
• Inspection Toolkit: The toolkit provides general elements of and contribute as much as possible to the needs of individual EECCA countries in improving their inspection organisation. The toolkit facilitates the adjustment of inspection criteria and procedures to current requirements and is, mainly, addressed to managers and practitioners.
• Glossary of Enforcement Terms: The purpose of the glossary is be to provide a common understanding of the terminology and enable users across EECCA to easier communicate among themselves and with partners in OECD and CEE countries.
• Compliance Promotion Tools – the document reviews the current experience with applying compliance promotion tools in the EECCA region and the OECD countries and assesses the feasibility of application of broader range of instruments in the region.