Title: 2nd BERCEN exchange program for the environmental enforcement agencies and inspectorates April 8 12,
12nd 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
2Examples 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
3Examples 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 -
4Examples 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
5Examples 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
6Examples 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
7Examples 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 !!
8Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
9Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
10Examples 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
11Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
12Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
13Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
14Examples 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.
15Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
16Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
17Examples 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
18Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
19Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
20Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
The day after
21Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
22Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
23Examples 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
24Examples of accidents and near accidents in
Croatia Accident at the storehouse hazardous
waste at the PUTO incineration plant in Zagreb
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