1 st Program of Experience Exchange INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC) Brijuni, November 28, 2002 Authors:Vlasta Pašalić Renata Sinovčević Vlasta Pašalić Renata Sinovčević.

INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE RoC IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC) Basic aims of IPPC Directive (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control): - prevention of emissions into the air, water or soil - introduction of BAT (best available techniques)

INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE RoC IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC) NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION STRATEGY Long-term national aims of the RoC in environment protection: - to preserve and improve the quality of air, water, sea and land, - to maintain existing biological diversity in the Republic of Croatia, - to preserve natural features of the areas of nature being of special value

INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE RoC IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC) BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA COMPETENT FOR INSPECTION IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION

INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE RoC IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC) PLANNING OF INSPECTION: Dynamics Target groups

INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE RoC IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC) REPORTING: UNIFIED TYPES OF POLLUTION LEVELS OF POLLUTION

INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE RoC IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC)  Special technical standards to be observed when performing certain prescribed activities (interventions) on the basis of expert assessment of the impact of intervention on the environment  Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning - Inspection of Environmental Protection  *Regulations on the assessment of the impacts on environment (NN 59/00)

System for the pollution prevention control consists of the following basic parts legal basis administrative basis analitical control system info. system inspection

FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LEGAL BASIS ARE: Established control of the prevention polutions measures from the activities on the oficial list Established emisions prevention measures contrl Established envoronmental and work place standard quality control Established control of the achivement proposed work parameters for process and control equipment Established sanitary conditions control Established akcident preventiom measures control Proposed inspector control procedures

ADMINISTRATIVE BASIS Competent governmental authorities for the pollution prevention control: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning (MEPPP), State Waters Administration State Office for Standardization, State inspectorate

CONTROL SYSTEM - HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT Obligatory control of the properties and their values prescribed in Article 3 of the Rule Book on Waste Types (1) Obligatory control of prescribed properties - Article 23 of the Rule Book on Waste Types (1) Owner of the facility where waste safe treatment methods are guaranteed, is obliged to establish values of the prescribed properties. Obligatory control of prescribed properties - Article 24 of the Rule Book on Waste Types (1) Owner of the facility where waste safe treatment methods are guaranteed, is obliged to establish values of the prescribed properties. Obligatory control of prescribed properties for sorting and disposal - Articles 3 and 25 of the Rule Book on Waste Types (1) Obligatory control of prescribed limit values of eluate - Art. 26 of the By- law on Requirements for Handling Hazardous Waste (2) Report on physical and chemical properties of waste Report on physical and chemical properties of eluate Certified control laboratory technical support for prescribed sampling and standard control analyses Chemical-physical features Thermal treatment Disposal Sorting (1) Official gazette #27/96 (2) Official gazette #32/98

INFORMATION SYSTEM – HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT Planners interested in improving and strengthening the system of hazardous waste management Inspections Authors interested in development of various reports and theses Interested media and institutions Interested professinal and other non-governmental organisations Information-technical support and software Selection and processing of data at the competent county government or the City of Zagreb authority Selection and processing of data at MEPPP User access to data on types and quantities of hazardous waste at the level of counties, towns, counties and the national level National registers Source: MEPPP Notifications Source: Company - generator, collection or treatment facility County registers and the Register of the City of Zagreb Source: County government administration and the environmental authority of the City of Zagreb Databases on technical and technological capacities Source: MEPPP Databases on export and transit of hazardous waste Source: MEPPP Notifications Register Source: MEPPP Notifications Source - generator Notifications Source - collection facility Notifications Source - treatment facility Possible users of data (upon formal request with explanation) DATA PROCESSING OFFICIAL DATA SOURCES

Competent inspection Sanitary Inspection Monitors the implementation of sanitary conditions when performing the activities with poisons, other hazardous substances, hazardous waste and noise.

Competent inspection Occupational Safety Inspection Monitors the implementation of the following measures: for the reduction of danger while working with hazardous substances, for the protection of air quality at the workplace, for the safe performance of production facilities

Competent inspection Fire Inspection Monitors the implementation of occupational safety measures while working with explosive and inflammable substances

Competent inspection Agricultural Inspection and Inspection for Plants Protection Monitors of the implementation of measures for the protection of farmland quality

Competent inspection Environmental Protection Inspection Monitors the implementation of the following measures: for prevention of emissions into the air, for protection of air quality, for waste management, for protection of sea water quality on the beaches defined by Study on the Impact on Environment, for prevention of sudden pollution of the environment, for sanitation in the case of environment pollution consequences

Competent inspection Water protection inspection Monitors the proposed measures: for waste water management and protection of water quality, for prevention of sudden water pollution for sanitation damage of sudden water pollution consequences

INSPECTION – PLANNING AND REPORTING (CURRENT SITUATION IN THE RoC IN CORRELATION WITH IPPC) CONCLUSIONS: Program of measures for the improvement of inspection Program of measures for planning Proposal for drafting unified inspection findings and report Harmonization of provisions regulating inspection

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