1. Third BERCEN Plenary Meeting December 16-17, 2004 Brussels, Belgium Key Achievements in Environmental Enforcement and Compliance in the Republic of Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro Biljana Djurovic Head of Department for International Cooperation Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning

2. Key Achievements Achievements can be described as a general improvements of the present legislation, more involvement of the public in the process of decision-making and better compliance of the legislation

3. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS Preparation of new laws in line with environmental acquis 1.Horizontal legislation –Law on Environmental Impact Assessment and two sub-legal acts –Law on Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment and one sub-legal act –Law on Integrated pollution prevention and control and two sub-legal acts –Environmental Protection Agency

4. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS Preparation of new laws in line with environmental acquis 2.Legislation on –Waste/hazardous waste management –Ambient air quality –Environmental Noise –Ionizing radiation and nuclear safety –Spatial planning –Eco Fund –Access to environmental information

5. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS - Development of policy framework - 1.Master plans and feasibility studies for waste water treatment in the –Coastal region and –Central and northern regions of Montenegro 2.National Policy on Waste Management 3.Solid Waste Strategic Master Plan 4.Development of Spatial plan of Montenegro 5.Development of Coastal Zone Management Strategy

6. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS - International cooperation- Numerous environmental projects are realized through: 1.Bilateral cooperation (Albania, Italy, Finland, Austria, Japan) 2.Regional cooperation (REReP, Adriatic- Ionian Initiative, Central European Initiative, MAP, REC,EAR, EEA) 3.Cooperation with international organizations (UNDP, UNEP, OSCE, World Bank, Interreg, UNIDO, EPA, UNECE)

7. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS - Implementation of International conventions- 1.Basel Convention 2.CITES 3.UN Framework convention on climate change and Kyoto Protocol 4.Barcelona convention 5.Montreal Protocol 6.Stockholm convention on POPs 7.Ramsar Convention

8. MONTENEGRO EU INTEGRATION NETWORK Ministry for economic relation and European Integration The Council for European integration Parliamentarian Committee for EU Integration Commission for Coordination of the process of Accession to the EU Contact person for EU Integration within ministries

9. MONTENEGRO EU INTEGRATION NETWORK Documents adopted by the Government: Action Plan for Implementation of European Partnership recommendations – Short and medium term priorities The Communication Strategy of Montenegro in the process of Association with EU

10. FURTHER ACTIVITIES (2004-2006) Legislative To continue transposition of EU environmental legislation into the national legal system To implement and enforce new legal acts – the biggest challenge Institutional To strengthen capacity of the ministries, agencies and enforcement institutions To improve intra-ministerial cooperation and coordination Financial To prepare financial strategy To improve EC financial assistance

11. PARTICIPATION OF MONTENEGRO IN BERCEN ACTIVITIES 2003-2004 Train the Training Programme in Montenegro focused on IPPC Permitting Study Tour for environmental inspectors in Poland – permitting system, implementation of IPPC and Seveso II directives and on site inspection 3th BERCEN Exchange Programme in Czech Republic focused on IPPC implementation Implementation and use of BREFs – participation of Montenegrin representative in the IMPEL Project

12. BERCEN SUCCESSES The BERCEN inspectors and permit writers improved their knowledge on IPPC Directive and the Parliament and Council Recommendation Providing Minimum criteria for Environmental Inspectors The transposition of EC laws into national law as a part of SAP Regional cooperation and mutual understanding among environmental authorities Exchange of experience and information among people involved in environmental inspection, permitting and implementation of environmental law

13. BERCEN ACTIVITIES IN THE FUTURE Candidate, pre-candidate as well as other countries willing to join the EU have the same agenda, so BERCEN should have the same platform as AC-IMPEL and IMPEL Besides IPPC, BERCEN should focused on implementation of other EU directives dealing with air, water, waste, nature, noise, etc. BERCEN should focused much more on pre- accession activities

14. BERCEN ACTIVITIES IN THE FUTURE BERCEN should have much closer cooperation with IMPEL through joint projects and the participation of the BERCEN representatives to certain IMPEL activities All BERCEN countries need much more support, especially financial one, to implement new transposed environmental laws After merging AC-IMPEL and IMPEL it is a right moment for BERCEN to be transformed

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