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Ministry of the Environment Preparation of the Czech Republic for the EU membership

Ministry of the Environment Preparation of the Czech Republic for the EU membership. EU Accession. CR applied for EU membership on 23 January 1996. Negotiation process in the area of environment initiated by the submission of the Position Paper of the Czech Republic to the EU in July 1999.

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Ministry of the Environment Preparation of the Czech Republic for the EU membership

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  1. Ministry oftheEnvironmentPreparation of the Czech Republic for the EU membership

  2. EU Accession • CR applied for EU membership on 23 January 1996. • Negotiation process in the area of environment initiated by the submission of the Position Paper of the Czech Republic to the EU in July 1999. • Negotiation process on the Chapter 22 was preliminary closed on 1 June 2001. • Accession Treaty signed on April 2003 • Referendum on the EU accession took place on 13 and 14 June 2003 (77% in favour; 55% participation). • EU accession on 1 May 2004

  3. EU Accession • June 2002 – 1st Peer Review by EC (water, IPPC, EIA, nature protection) • July 2003 – 2nd Peer Review by EC (water, IPPC) • April 2004 “7th Progress Monitoring Report” Support from EU: Phare, ISPA • Institutional building - assistance from Phare programme (twinning projects,investments, TA)

  4. EU Accession Main strategic documents: • Implementation Plan in the field of Environment (last update in January 2004) • Framework Financing Strategy of investment ensuring implementation of EC legislation • State Environmental Policy

  5. EU Accession Three transitional periods: • Directive 91/271/EEC on urban wastewater treatment (t.p. until 31 December 2010) • Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (t.p. until 31 December 2005) • Directive 2002/80/EC on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants

  6. EU Membership • January 2003 – documents of the EU Council to comment • Participation in the EU as „observers“ from April 2003 • Co-ordination mechanism of participation in EU established in May 2003 • EU member with voting right in May 2004 • January – June 2009EU Presidency

  7. EU Presidency General priorities • Motto "Europe without Barriers" • Key issues: • Competitiveness, the Four Freedoms, and Liberal Trade Policy • Energy and climate change • Europe – open and secure • Historical parallels to the priorities: 20th anniversary of the Czechoslovak „Velvet revolution“, 5th anniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement

  8. EU Presidency Environmental priorities 1. Climate Change • Post-Kyoto regime (after 2012) • Climate and energy legislative package 2. Protection of human health and environment 3. Sustainable consumption and production 4. Biodiversity protection

  9. EU Presidency • Climate-energy package • Proposal for a Directive amending Dir. 2003/87/EC so as to improve and extend the GHG emission allowance trading system of the Community • Proposal for a Decision on the effort of MS to reduce their GHG emissions to meet the Community’s GHG emission reduction commitments up to 2020 • Proposal for a Directive on the geological storage of carbon dioxide • Proposal for a Directive of on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources

  10. EU Presidency • Proposal for a Directive on industrial emissions • CZ PRES finalization of negotiations • Proposal for a Directive on the national emission ceilings • Expected in the first half of 2009 • CZ PRES will only open the negotiations

  11. EU Presidency • Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production • Proposal for a regulation revising the EU Ecolabel scheme • Proposal for a regulation revising EMAS • Communication on the implementation of green public procurement • Proposal for a revised eco-design products directive

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