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Environmental Information System Development – Status Update

REReP 1.8 Wrap-up/Training Workshop June 19-20, 2003 Sofia, Bulgaria. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Environmental Information System Development – Status Update. Current Status I. EIS in B&H:. EI - few. NO S (ystem)!. Current Status I I.

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Environmental Information System Development – Status Update

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  1. REReP 1.8 Wrap-up/Training Workshop June 19-20, 2003 Sofia, Bulgaria Bosnia and Herzegovina EnvironmentalInformation System Development – Status Update

  2. Current Status I EIS in B&H: • EI - few • NOS (ystem)!

  3. Current Status II Institutional set-up -two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. MoAWMFs are responsible for water management issues at the entities' level, environmental protection is the responsibility of the MoPPEin the FB&H and the MoPPCEE in Republika Srpska (RS). Moreover, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into ten cantons which each have their own Ministries of Physical Planning and Environment. Legal framework – new set of Environmental Laws adopted in both entitites Data collection and management -no environmental information system for the central storage of data, in electronic or paper format, in either the FB&H or RS, and also no regulated system for environmental reporting in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  4. Current Status III Information dissemination -no system regulating environmental reporting and dissemination in B&H. The Aarhus Convention has not yet been ratified or adopted. The process of responding to individual requests for environmental information is regulated in the Federation by the Minister himself. Requests must be submitted formally in writing and the Minister or his deputy will transfer these to the responsible department. Under former Law on Physical Planning, requests must be answered within 15-30 days. Publications, leaflets, studies and brochures are published by different institutions but as production is not clearly mandated, content, and format varies from organisation to organisation. A state of the environment report for Bosnia and Herzegovina was compiled and published by FBiH MoPPE in 1998, and access provided online via the Internet. It has not been updated yet. Use of environmental reporting in decisionmaking – almost no reporting

  5. NFP FBiH RS ? ? ? Present situation

  6. EI in public Data warehouse Operative databases in NRC BiH (both entitites, data collected frpm MCEs) ETC EEA PCP NFP Objective

  7. PODACI EU Conventions B&H Technical assistance Leadership, coordination, integration Server Indicators,social data Internet access Database catalogue CIRCLE Water Air Nature Waste Land LC/LU Noise DATA MONITORING MONITORING Future possible data flow

  8. Projects Synergy ROSA – LIFE Third Countries project “Setting up and Operational Unit under the Environmental Steering Committee” – operational unit has some basic functions of EPA REReP 1.8 Work Package A - Hardware Purchase for RS MoE Work Package B – Portal Development Work Package C – Data Management

  9. Tangible Developments & Progress Work Package A - Hardware Purchase for RS MoE • Objectives – To bridge the gap in missing hardware and LAN • Implemented – purchased server, two desktop computers, printer, LAN installed in RS MoE • Benefits – necessary equipment obtained

  10. Tangible Developments & Progress Work Package B – Portal Development • Objectives – To enable data presentation and to ease communication with relevant authorities in both entities • Implemented – workshops on content delivered, domains registered and web space rented, e-mail accounts established, sites drafted • To be implemented – further site development and management, training of MoEs personnel • Benefits – access to information

  11. Tangible Developments & Progress Work Package C – Data Management • Objectives – To enable MoEs for data management • To be implemented – training of MoEs personnel for environmental data management, ToR for DMS • Benefits – knowledge on data management, prerequisite for environmental reporting

  12. Future Priorities • Foreseen actions – selection of MCEs, NRCs, PCPs (priorities: water, waste, air, nature) ; (S)EPA ? • Available funding – LIFE Third Countries project • Required assistance - (S)EPA ?

  13. Further Information…. Mr. Mladen Rudez Email: mladen.rudez@fmpuio.gov.ba And please visit us at the exhibition!

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