1. ECENA 1st Plenary Meeting, 19-20 January, Zagreb, Croatia 2006
Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of Kosovo
Mr. Muhamet Malsiu, Acting Head
Environmental Inspectorate MESP
Kosovo (territory under UN interim administration)

2. Environmental Legislation in force
Framework Law for Environmental Protection (is in procedure of revising)
Law for Air Protection (2004)
Law for Water (2004)
Law for Spatial Planning (2004)
Administrative Instruction (Adm.In.) for Environmental Impact Assessment (compliant with EU Directives 85/337/EEC and 97/11/EC) and the related Adm.In. regarding the licensing of persons and companies for compiling of EIA reports
Adm.In. establishing the Environmental Protection Inspectorate (is in procedure of revising)
Adm.In. establishing the Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency

3. Law proposals for which approval still is pending
Nature Protection Law (approved in parliament)
Law for Waste Management and Disposal (approved in parliament)
Law for protection from noise (expected to be approved within this year)
Law about protection from radioactivity (expected to be approved within this year)
Low about IPPC
(expected to be approved within this year)

4. Administrative Instructions proposals for which approval still is pending
Administrative Directive-on regulation and standards for emissions from stationary sources-draft
Administrative Directive-on regulation and standards for emissions from mobile sources-draft
Administrative directive-on environmental permit-draft
Other administrative directives from horizontal and vertical legislations are in procedure of development

5. Development of policy framework
Environmental Strategy for Kosovo
Kosovo Environmental Action Plan-ongoing-financed by SIDA and implementing by REC Office in Kosovo
Kosovo Spatial plane-ongoing
Energy strategy for Kosovo-is in procedure for approval

6. Environmental Inspecting in Kosovo
The competences for environmental inspections are distributed among different offices and levels
At the central level, inspecting competences are attributed to:
Environmental and Water Inspectorate
Inspectorates for Housing/Construction and for Spatial Planning are also envisaged by the respective laws
At the local level, with more than 30 inspectors, one for each of municipalities (except Prishtina municipality, which has two inspectors)

7. Efficiency of inspections (national level)
n. 134 inspections in different companies
Outcomes of inspections
tot. n. 27 decisions,
of which:
n. 7 requests to companies to submit formal EIA to MESP
n. 9 orders to suspend operations
n. 11 recommendations to address specific aspects of operations
No data available on inspections carried out at the municipal level

8. Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of KOSOVO
Thank you for your attention
Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of KOSOVO