2nd BERCEN exchange program for the environmental enforcement agencies and inspectorates April 8 12,

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2nd BERCEN exchange program for the
environmental enforcement agencies and
inspectoratesApril 8 - 12, 2003Veliko Tarnovo,
Bulgaria
Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia

• Authors Anita Pokrovac Patekar
• Jasna Paladin-Popovic

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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb

• Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical
  Planing (MEPPP) laid down the obligation of
  adopting Environmental Intervention Plans

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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb

• Environmental Intervention Plans
• Obligations
• All legal or natural persons that manufacture,
  store, process, transport, collect or perform
  other activities involving hazardous substances
• The subject of the Plans
• Plans have to prescribe all steps of action in
  cases of accidents in conformity with EPA 40 and
  CFR 68 and a calculation for threat zones
• Plans must be submitted to the respectiv county
  exspert commissions

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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb

• Environmental Intervention Plans

OPERATOR interv.plan
OPERATOR interv.plan
OPERATOR interv.plan
OPERATOR interv.plan
THE COUNTIES OR THE CITY OF ZAGREB County
interv.plans
THE COUNTIES OR THE CITY OF ZAGREB County
interv.plans
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF
CROATIA National interv.plan
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb

• Environmental Intervention Plans
• Today
• Most of the persons under obligations to adopt
  intervention plans have not done so as yet
• In most counties no expert commissions have been
  established and consequently the submitted plans
  have not been assessed
• Most cuonties have not adopted county
  intervention plans
• The Gouvernment of the Republic of Croatia has
  not adopted the national intervention plan

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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb

• Environmental intervention Plans
• If the accident hapend
• Polluter has to inform the emergency information
  center (EIC) and implement measures from the plan
  in case of accidents
• EIC checks the information though the police
• Police provide security of the site
• EIC calls the intervention and expert units and
  county ecological headquaters
• If the accident is of local charakter the
  county ecological headquarters heded by the
  county prefect
• If the accident is of major charakter the
  national ecological headquarters headed by the
  Minister of Environmental Protection

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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb

• Environmental Intervention Plans
• All the above quoted is prescribed by law and the
  situation in practice should correspond to these
  provision
• But, unfortunately
• reality is different !!

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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
The PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
August 01, 2002. 7.30 p.m.
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
Several km near the fire place
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
The day after
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb

• Conclusion
• Neither the head of the ecological headquarters
  of the city of Zagreb nor any of its members were
  on site
• No expert team members who could provide expert
  assessment of possible accident consequences,
  rescue measures and tehnical intervention
  measures were on the site
• The environmental inspector took an active role
  in this accident

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Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
Thank you for your attention !