ECENA Workshop onBenchmarking and Setting Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators

29-30 March, 2007REC Conference Centre

Szentendre

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

Short Overview

candidate country process of transposition implementation reorganization of MoEPP decentralization

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

What is Benchmarking?

• "Benchmarking is a tool to help you improve your processes. Any process can be benchmarked.“

• "Benchmarking is the process of identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices from organizations anywhere in the world to help your organization improve its performance."

• "Benchmarking is a highly respected practice in the business world. It is an activity that looks outward to find best practice and high performance and then measures actual operations against those goals."

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

What do we need before and after benchmarking

1. Metric Identification

2. Data Collection

3. Compare & Contrast

4. Focused Action

5. Sustained Improvement

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Indicators based on The Annual Inspection Planning and Reporting

(Legal bases in The Rulebooks – 01.01.2007)

Inspection Report

Routine supervisionperformed

Training, workshops,seminars participation

Extend of complianceof installations/sectors

Cooperation withOther competent

Authorities

Non-routinesupervision

Time spent forRoutine

supervision

Enforcing actions,Offence and

Criminal charges

Time spent forNon-routine supervision

Assessment of theefficiency of the AnnualPlan implementation

Planed, but notcompletedinspections

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Analyzing of indicators

Action Improvement

Routine / non-routine inspection

1.Corection of The Plan of inspection.

2.Frequency of inspection.

3.Corection of permit conditions

1.Planning of inspection

2.Efficiency of inspection

3.Planning of budget for inspection

Planed / not-completed inspection

1.Assessment of time spent for inspection

2.Technical recourse available

3.Budget of inspectorate

1.Planning of inspection

2.Technical equipment (vehicles, PS-s etc.)

Compliance / enforcement action / installations / sectors

1.Revision of frequency of inspection in “risk” sectors.

2.Revision of permits

1.Better compliance

2.Permiting system

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

Analyzing of indicators

Action Improvement

Assessment of the

efficiency of the Annual

Plan implementation

1.Efficiency assessment of inspectors body

2.Personal assessment of each inspector

Institutional and personal improvement

Enforcing actions,

Offence and

Criminal charges

1.Assessment of Environmental Judicial System

Environmental Judicial System

Permitting system / quality of ambient air

1.ELV in permits Quality of ambient air

Progress monitoring

• Process monitoring during the pre-accession period. EC progress monitoring are prepared every year by EC for each candidate country.

- fulfilling of table of concordance and implementations questionnaires of 69 Directives

- EC report on compliance on National Legislation with Aquis Communitaire.

• Process monitoring of Action Plan of the sub-group on environment in process of decentralization.

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

SOER – State of Environmental Report (every 4 year) To Define National Indicators

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

Driving Force Response Pressure State Impact

Indicators :Exp.Water

Consumption

Indicators :Exp.Discharge of

Polluted Water

Indicators :Exp.Conc.of

Nutrients, BOD, COD,

Indicators :Exp.Flora,

Fauna,Human health

Indicators :Exp.Legal frame,

Supervision ,Polluters pay

principle

Future Activities

• Establishing of benchmarking• Developing of ECE indicators• Planed Twining program on ECE Indicators• Activities in ECENA, IMPEL, other networks

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

Presenter : Zoran Dimovski, State Environmental Inspector

Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningRepublic of Macedonia

Thank you for your attention !