1. ECENA Workshop on Benchmarking and Setting Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators 29-30 March, 2007 REC Conference Centre Szentendre Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia

2. Short Overview  candidate country  process of transposition  implementation  reorganization of MoEPP  decentralization Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia

3. What is Benchmarking? "Benchmarking is a tool to help you improve your processes. Any process can be benchmarked.“ "Benchmarking is the process of identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices from organizations anywhere in the world to help your organization improve its performance." "Benchmarking is a highly respected practice in the business world. It is an activity that looks outward to find best practice and high performance and then measures actual operations against those goals." Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia

4. What do we need before and after benchmarking 1.Metric Identification 2.Data Collection 3.Compare & Contrast 4.Focused Action 5.Sustained Improvement Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia

5. Indicators based on The Annual Inspection Planning and Reporting (Legal bases in The Rulebooks – 01.01.2007) Inspection Report Routine supervision performed Training, workshops, seminars participation Extend of compliance of installations/sectors Cooperation with Other competent Authorities Non-routine supervision Time spent for Routine supervision Enforcing actions, Offence and Criminal charges Time spent for Non-routine supervision Assessment of the efficiency of the Annual Plan implementation Planed, but not completed inspections

6. Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia Analyzing of indicators ActionImprovement Routine / non-routine inspection 1.Corection of The Plan of inspection. 2.Frequency of inspection. 3.Corection of permit conditions 1.Planning of inspection 2.Efficiency of inspection 3.Planning of budget for inspection Planed / not-completed inspection 1.Assessment of time spent for inspection 2.Technical recourse available 3.Budget of inspectorate 1.Planning of inspection 2.Technical equipment (vehicles, PS-s etc.) Compliance / enforcement action / installations / sectors 1.Revision of frequency of inspection in “risk” sectors. 2.Revision of permits 1.Better compliance 2.Permiting system

7. Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia Analyzing of indicators ActionImprovement Assessment of the efficiency of the Annual Plan implementation 1.Efficiency assessment of inspectors body 2.Personal assessment of each inspector Institutional and personal improvement Enforcing actions, Offence and Criminal charges 1.Assessment of Environmental Judicial System Environmental Judicial System Permitting system / quality of ambient air 1.ELV in permitsQuality of ambient air

8. Progress monitoring Process monitoring during the pre-accession period. EC progress monitoring are prepared every year by EC for each candidate country. - fulfilling of table of concordance and implementations questionnaires of 69 Directives - EC report on compliance on National Legislation with Aquis Communitaire. Process monitoring of Action Plan of the sub-group on environment in process of decentralization. Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia

9. SOER – State of Environmental Report (every 4 year) To Define National Indicators Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia Driving ForceResponsePressureStateImpact Indicators : Exp.Water Consumption Indicators : Exp.Discharge of Polluted Water Indicators : Exp.Conc.of Nutrients, BOD, COD, Indicators : Exp.Flora, Fauna, Human health Indicators : Exp.Legal frame, Supervision, Polluters pay principle

10. Future Activities Establishing of benchmarking Developing of ECE indicators Planed Twining program on ECE Indicators Activities in ECENA, IMPEL, other networks Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia

11. Presenter : Zoran Dimovski, State Environmental Inspector Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Republic of Macedonia Thank you for your attention !