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The
INECE network is only as successful as those willing to share their
experiences. One way to do this is to contribute to ongoing projects
and to suggest and either lead or participate in new ones. Below are
several projects to which you are invited to contribute:
Country
progress and capacity building priorities for environmental compliance and
enforcement
The
INECE partnership is working to issue global and regional aggregate
reports on country program status and capacity building priorities for
environmental law, compliance, and enforcement. In order to complete
this report, INECE is awaiting information from many nations but has
already received results from over 40 countries. The country
progress/self assessment format was designed to be a bottom up process
starting with a format to help countries assess progress and priorities
for capacity building. The format, a first version, will be improved
on and simplified in the future but has been a positive “experiment”.
A copy of the format can be obtained from INECE or at the internet
homepage: www.inece.org. A
list of countries from whom we have received reports is listed at - www.inece.org/Letter/CPR.
Additional perspectives and information is always welcome.
Transboundary
Trade in Potentially Hazardous (Waste, Pesticide, Ozone-Depleting)
Substances
Originally prepared as a pre-publication draft in 1996, this Technical
Support Document is in the process of being updated and finalized.
New statistics, enforcement information, and anecdotal examples are being
added to further this document’s usefulness. It includes current
information on the Basel Convention, Montreal Protocol and CITES as well
as Prior Informed Consent, and related resources and information centers.
Once completed, it will be available both in hard copy and on the Internet
along with other Technical Support Documents that the INECE partnership
has previously published on mining, deforestation, tourism, residential
and industrial solid waste disposal, and petroleum refining and
petrochemicals.
Using
Compliance Schedules and Action Plans To Achieve Environmental Results
Inspired by working with the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic
and sharing of the experiences in the United States, Egypt and Venezuela,
the draft working paper “Using Compliance Schedules and Action Plans to
Achieve Environmental Results” seeks to draw on different country
and NGO experiences for lessons learned in drafting such provisions to
make their terms more likely to be complied with. The draft
emphasizes the use of compliance schedules or action plans as a common
denominator used by different countries in a number of vehicles such as an
administrative or judicial enforcement order, agreement, permit or license
as a method for establishing a realistic and staged basis for making
progress on meeting environmental objectives in a manner that
realistically considers resource and technological constraints and
minimizes adverse economic impacts. The report focuses on how
important principles can be the basis for negotiations which establish and
maintain the responsibility of the polluter to comply with environmental
requirements established by law in a realistic manner. Additional
country examples and comments are still being solicited and incorporated
into the document which will be available this calendar year in draft or
final, depending upon our ability to draw on many different examples.
Practical
implementation and training materials to support enforcement:
International environmental agreements
The next area of INECE involvement is support for enforcement officials
through exchange of practical implementation and training materials by
making them available through the Internet and in hard copy. One
focus will be support of the enforcement of international environmental
agreements, the multilateral environmental agreements identified in the
lead article: Basel, Montreal Protocol and CITES at the national level.
We will also continue to provide such materials on other areas as well as
the need and opportunities to do so arise. The article above on FAO
and the call for inspector manuals for pesticide inspectors is an example
of such a project. All languages are welcome as they can reach a
related audience.
Papers
and dialogue on special topics and greater support for enforcement
cooperation
INECE conferences have supported exchanges on special topics the results
of which are committed to paper. The Internet structure is
undergoing a change to better support ongoing dialogue on these and other
topics of interest. If you would like to introduce new areas of
discussion please so identify to the INECE Secretariat. Otherwise we
will support a structure on the Internet for ongoing dialogue on these
important matters. This will be available by the beginning of next
calendar year. All are welcome to offer comments and make requests
in the interim. Some areas will be password protected as appropriate
to secure the dialogues and information exchange for their intended
purpose.
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