Institutional Strengthening of Environmental Inspectorates Kickoff Meeting, 23rd of January 2003

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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Overview of the Twinning Project Institutional
Strengthening of Environmental Inspectorates Ing
emarie Schmidt-Bens, PAA
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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
InspectoratesKick-off Meeting, 23rd of January
2003

• 1.     1. Introduction of the PAA Mrs.
  Ingemarie Schmidt-Bens
• Head of Division of Waste Management and
• Deputy Head of Directorate of Waste Management
  and Soil
• Protection in the Ministry for Environment of
  Schleswig-Holstein
• Germany
• special experience with regard to the Project
  
•     modernizing re-organisation of
  administration
•    working with staff on necessary changes
•     optimising permitting procedures
•     guide-lines of minimum criteria for
  inspections 2

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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• PAA-Colleagues and
  Twinning Projects
• Elisabeth Poncelet (F)
  Hazardous Waste D.
• Maria Jacobsen (G) IPPC
  Directive
• Jens Ulrik Jensen (D) Seveso
  II Directive
• Dr. Stefan von Keitz (G) and
• Pierre Henry de Villeneuve (F ) Water
  Framework D
• Chris de Crane (B) Waste
  Management
• Hartmut Behrend (G) Air
  Pollution Monit.
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• Project Management Ms. Theresa Glasmacher, BS U
• Tel.
  49-30-39042-62
• Fax
  49-30-39042-47
• PAA-Office Mrs. Ingemarie Schmidt-Bens, PAA
• Mrs. Judit Borsos,
  Assistant
• Ms. Luca Vendel-Mohay,
  Assistant
• Tel. 36-1-346
  8333/8348/8356
• Fax [phone]
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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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2. Twinners are Partners Within the framework of
the EU Phare Program which finances Twinning
Projects the European Commission wishes to
promote the provision of national experts between
the national institutes of EU MS and those of
the CC. The purpose is to assist the CC to put in
place the institutions required to take on all
the Acquis Communautaire. Twinning means
Partnership between the MS - they give advice
and the CC they decide. That means, You, the
Hungarians, You are the decision makers!
But 3 Both work together as One Twinning
and Winning Team.
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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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• 3. Background of the Twinning Project
• Organizational structures have changed after
  election.
• Environmental Acquis means not only European
  legislation
• but also integration. The idea is to reach the
  utmost of
• integration between the various
  administrations.
• Following those ideas it means integration for
  the whole
• range from the Water Boards to the
  Environmental
• Inspectorates to the Nature Conservation
  Directorates and
• probably other administrations more in the
  near future.
• This Project will certainly become a highly
  sensitive process.
• The Team is aware of that and well
  prepared. - 4

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
InspectoratesKick-off Meeting, 23rd of January
2003

• 4. Objectives of the Twinning Project
• The overall Objective
• To assist Hungary in strengthening the capacity
  of its
• environmental inspection system in order to
  give effect to the
• EU Environmental Acquis Communautaire.
• Permitting, licensing and compliance control in
  the field of
• environment have to get integrated with each
  other in order to
• meet the Acquis.
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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
InspectoratesKick-off Meeting, 23rd of January
2003

• The Key Objectives
• to strengthen the institutional background,
• to get permitting, licensing and compliance
  control in line
• with the requirements of the EU environmental
  Acquis,
• to ensure full institutional capacity to
  reporting and
• information requirements of several main EU
  directives,
• to provide training for 300 employees,
• to ensure the consideration of the Aarhus
  Convention,
• to implement the Minimum Criteria of Inspection
  (MCI),
• to design a sustainable training system for
  future times. 6

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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2003

• 5. Components of the Twinning Project
• Kick-off Meeting
• Questionnaire Action
• SWOT-Analysis
• Future Institution
• Improvement of Qualification of Staff
• Data Management, Monitoring System and
  IT-Compatibility
• Budgets of Inspectorates
• Case Studies
• Wrap-up Meeting Output of the Project
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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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• How to Proceed the Process?
• Questionnaire Action
• SWOT-Analysis
• Future Institution
• Improvement of Qualification of Staff
• Additional Activities
• All the project needs is SUPPORT!
• Ingemarie Schmidt-Bens, PAA

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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• 1.Questionnaire Action
• We all in Europe need to have comparable systems
  for permitting,
• inspecting and monitoring procedures for
  environmental issues
• therefore
• You also have to adopt the Environmental Acquis
  Communautaire.
• Some administrations will fulfil the EU
  requirements, others not yet.
• We from Finland and Germany had to do the same
  efforts earlier.
• Its up to us now to transfer our experience to
  you .
• We give advice and you decide. Thats all.
• But how to get to know, where you stay?
• The best way is a Questionnaire.
• They will be discussed on Workshops before
  delivered. 2P

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• 2. SWOT-Analysis
• The answered Questionnaire will have to be
  analysed by
• means of a SWOT-Analysis.
• Strong and Weak points in relation to the
  requested
• strengthening of the environmental
  inspection system - will
• be identified in order to improve .
• There will be SWOT-Analyses on
• structures and responsibilities,
• assignment of tasks and
• number and qualification of staff.
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• The results of the SWOT will be discussed on
  Workshops.

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• 3. Future Institution
• The Hungarian-Finnish-German Twinning Team will
• elaborate proposals of how to strengthen the
  inspection
• system based on
• the Review of Hungarian Implementation and
• Enforcement Procedures in the Environment
  Sector, the
• AC-IMPEL Report of February 2001,
• the EURENMEE Conception Report of 2000 and
• the results of the SWOT-Analysis.
• Proposals will be discussed by occasion of
  Workshops. 4P

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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2003

• 4. Improvement of Qualification of Staff
• Preparation of Training
• Identifying of 18 future core trainers,
• Identifying of 300 employees (future trainers
  included),
• Planning of training facilities,
• Determining training contents taking into
  consideration
• training within other Twinning projects,
• Elaboration of assessment questionnaires,
• Workshop .
  5P

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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• Training on the following EU-Directives
• Urban Waste Water Treatment (91/271/EEC),
• Dangerous Substances in Water (80/68/EEC),
• Large Combustion Plants (80/2001/EC),
• Hazardous Waste Management (91/689/EEC),
• Waste Management (75/442/EEC) and
• Incineration of Hazardous Waste (76/2000/EC).
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  6P

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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• Study Tours
• Study Tour No. 1 goes to Finland for 6 Hungarian
  future
• trainers specialized on EU-Water Directives.
• Study Tour No. 2 will lead 6 Hungarian future
  trainers to
• Germany, in particular to Schleswig-Holstein
  and North-
• Rhine-Westphalia to get informed on
  EU-Directives for
• Hazardous Waste.
• Study Tour No. 3 will be organized by Germany
  for 6
• Hungarian future trainers on EU-Directives of
  Household
• Waste and will take place in
  Schleswig-Holstein and
• Hamburg.
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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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2003

• Environmental Training Academy (ETA)
• To ensure a continuous training on environmental
• administration and to institutionalise
  training,
• To keep staff on a high level of knowledge,
• To introduce a long distance learning/training,
• To prepare certificates for State
  Environmental
• Inspector and Verified State Environmental
  Inspector
• To elaborate procedures for the training in
  other subjects
• than the mentioned EU-Directives,
• Workshop.
  8P

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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2003

• 5. Additional Activities
• Data Management, Monitoring System and
  IT-Compatibility
• Budgets of Inspectorates
• Case Studies
• Workshop on Results Wrap-up Meeting
  
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  9P

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Institutional Strengthening of Environmental
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2003

• 6. All the Project needs is SUPPORT!
• We need SUPPORT from you all the Ministries,
  the
• Regional and Local Authorities, the
  PAA-Colleagues
• and all those who are interested in a
  successful process!
• We OFFER an excellent team of European experts
• all our Hungarian Team members
• 8 Finnish Short Term Experts and
• 14 German Short Term Experts.
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  10P
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