Ministry of Environment, Forests and Water ManagementAlbania ECENA Exchange Programme First Plenary Meeting January, 2006 Zagreb, Croatia

Update on strengthening the implementation and enforcement of EU environmental legislation according to the recommendations from the EC 2005 Report  New laws, Decisions of the Council of Ministers approved during 4 th quarterly  Law on Ratification Of Air Convention  Law “On the ratification of PRTR (Ratification of Protocol of Registers of Pollutants Transfers) protocol under Aarhus convention”.  Law “On the ratification of UNECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLTRAP) (Geneva 1979).  Law “On EIA in the transboundary context”  Law “On Ratification of Protocol of Strategical Assessment”.  Law “On Environmental Protection from transboundary impacts”.

New laws, Decisions of the Council of Ministers approved during 4 th quarterly  Draftlaw “On the control of products and management of materials dealing mainly with the level of emissions by vehicles and the quality of fuel used ».  Draft-Law “On environmental management of hazardous wastes”  Draft law “On the ratification of 1-st and 2-nd amendments of the Espo’s Convention on EIA”.  DCM “On the approval of the list of equipments using ozone-depleting substances which importation is prohibited”, based on Directive 2002/3/EC.  DCM “On the approval of the Albanian Catalogue of Wastes”.  DCM “On liquid discharges rate”

Environmental Inspectorate activities, 2005  Environmental Inspectorate (2003) as part of the new MoE structure is:  Still limited, no. of officers in the Ministry is 4, while the number of officers in the Regional Environmental Agencies (REA) is 39, (1 inspector/ people)  Under the professional and logistic capacities and still  Powerless to fully enforce the implementation of environmental legislation.  However, even if the number of inspections carried out (and the same for the penalties raised by it) is increased, in the majority of the cases are not collected.  The efficient mechanism for their collection is not found yet.

Environmental Inspectorate activities, 2005  Total number of activities with environmental impact 3800  Small and medium sized entreprises integrated in the country’s life ±3700  Total number of activities with environmental permit 2585  annually 2600 inspection visits  102 administrative fines  > euro’s administrative fines  7.8% total of collected fines  56 total number of suspension activities.

Change in Inspectorate indicators  No of inspections according priorities/inspector.  No of penalties/inspector.  No of penalties collected/inspector.  No of permit activities compared with No of activities without permit.  No of activities in compliance with environmental legislation.  No of enterprises investing in environmental field/abatements etc.