1. Harmonization and Implementation/Enforcement of Environmental Legislation in the field of Industrial Pollution Control in Latvia
Ilze Kirstuka
Director of Latvian Environment Agency

2. Structure of Legislation
General
Air Protection
Water Use and Protection
Subsoil Use and Protection
Chemical Substances and Chemical Products
Waste Management
Natural Resources Use

3. IPPC Legislation Law on Environment Protection
Law on Natural Resources Taxes
Law on EIA
Law on Pollution
Law on Waste Management
Law on Chemical Substances and Chemical Products
Law on Species and Biotops
Law on Water Management
Law on Packaging

4. General legislation Law On Environment Protection (06.08.1991)
Law On Environment Impact Assessment ( )
Law On Pollution ( )
the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations
No.213 “Procedures of Environment Impact Assessment” ( )
No.445 “Statutes of the Environment Impact Assessment Bureau” ( )
No.415 “On the Environment State Monitoring” ( )

5. Air protection legislation
the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations
No.219 “On Air Quality” ( )
No.154 “On Assessment, Prevention, Limitation and Control of Air Polluting Emissions Caused by Stationary Air Pollution Sources” ( )
No.406 “On the Protection of the Ozone Layer” ( )
No.241 “On the Environmental Norms for Fuel Quality” ( )

6. Water protection legislation
the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations
No.155 “On Water Use Permits” ( )
No.300 “On Swimming Beaches Management and Sanitary Regulations” ( )

7. Use and Protection of Subsoil
Law On Subsoil ( )
the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations
No.239 “Use of Subsoil” ( )
No.238 “Use of the State Important Minerals, Deposits and Subsoil Areas” ( )

8. Chemical substances and products
Law on Chemical Substances and Chemical Products ( )
the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations
No.418 “Procedure for Compilation and Submitting Safety Data Sheets on Chemical Substances and Chemical Products” ( )
No.228 “Procedure for Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemical Substances and Chemical Products” ( )
No “Restrictions and Prohibits for Use and Marketing of Dangerous Chemical Substances and Dangerous Chemical Products” ( )

9. Waste Management the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations
No. 353 “Order of application for activities with hazardous waste” ( )
No.298 “Classification of hazardous waste and criteria of hazardousness” ( )
No.39 “Classification of municipal waste” ( )
No.205 “Registration of natural and legal persons performing collection, storage, treatment, transfer and transportation of municipal waste” ( )

10. Waste Management Law on Waste Management (14.12.2000)
the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations
No.230 “Regulations on Recovery and Disposal of Municipal Waste” ( )
No.56 “Regulations on Setting, Management and Closure of Municipal Waste Landfills” ( )
No.316 “On the Use of Effluent Sludge for Soil Fertilisation and Territorial Improvement ( )

11. Natural Resources Use Legislation
Law on Natural Resources Taxes
( )
the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 356 “Application of the Provisions of the Law “On Natural Resources Taxes” “ ( )

12. The Cabinet of Ministers Draft Regulations
On Permit Application, Permitting and Use of Best Available Techniques for Category A (IPPC) Polluting Activities
On Requirements on Waste Incineration and Waste Incineration Installations setting up
On Use of Sewage Sludge
On Protection of Water, Soil and Sensitive Territories from Agriculture Nitrate Pollution
On Reduction of Environmental Pollution caused by Manufacturing of Asbestos and its Products, Order of Management of Asbestos Waste
On the Procedure for Prevention of Risk of Industrial Accidents and Measures for Reducing the Risk

13. Main institutional structure
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
LATVIAN ENVIRONMENTAL
INVESTMENT FUND
LATVIAN ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
LATVIAN GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY
LATVIAN HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL AGENCY
STATE ENTERPRISE
VIDE PROJEKTI
ĶEMERI NATIONAL PARK
STATE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESMENT
BOARD
GAUJA NATIONAL PARK
STATE ENTERPRISE RAPA
ENVIRONMENTAL STATE INSPECTORATE
STATE BUILDING INSPECTORATE
LATVIAN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL BOARD
8 REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL BOARDS
SLĪTERE STATE RESERVE
TEIČI STATE RESERVE
Subordinated Institutions
NORTH VIDZEME BIOSPHERE RESERVE
LATVIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
FUND
Supervised Institutions
Institutions under
authority

14. Databases Water Protection Air Protection Waste and chemicals
-Annual State Statistics Report “Water”
(water consumption and emissions to water)
-Water Permits
Air Protection
- Annual State Statistics Report “Air”
(emissions from stationary sources)
-Data on Greenhouse Gases
Waste and chemicals
- Annual State Statistics Report on Hazardous Waste
- Annual State Statistics Report on Chemicals
(use of chemical substances and products)
- Radioactive Waste

15. MoEPRD web “Industrial Pollution Control”
IPPC Legislation
Guidance's on BAT (20 branches)
Reports, Addresses
Industrial Polllution C