Svetlana Parežanin, head of Department Sector for control and surveillance

1. ECENA 3rd Plenary meeting September 18-19, 2008 Istanbul, Turkey Majoractivities of the Serbian inspectorate from September 2007 - the second plenary meeting in Brussels, Belgium Svetlana Parežanin, head of Department Sector for control and surveillance

2. ''Guidebook for operators through environmental regulations'' • Published by Inspectorate • At the end of December 2007 • The aim of the book is • to guide operators through environmental legislation, • to increase the level of compliance, • to be used as manual for judges and public prosecutors for better enforcement of the environmental laws.

3. Trainings for local self-government decision makers • WHY • In order to increase administrative capacity of local self-government for better implementation of environmental laws • WHO • Inspectorate in cooperation with Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SCTM) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit- Project „Modernization of Municipal Services“ (GTZ) • WHAT • 11 meetings with local self-government managers and decision makers in all Serbian districts (11 towns), in February and March 2008. About 180 participants were present at these meetings • TOPICS • Current situation about local staff - educational profile and number of local inspectors and employees in the field of environment

4. Trainings for local self-government decision makers – cont. • TOPICS – cont. • Authority decentralization (retrospective view on current laws and laws that should be adopted in future), • Organization of the Ministry, including the scheme of Inspectorate, • Proposal of organization of local environmental authorities (scheme description), • Challenges in enforcement of environmental law (lack of personnel or inadequate personnel in municipalities) General conclusion was that there is a need for increase in number of local environmental inspectors

5. „Guidelines“ • „Guidelines for the Environmental Protection in the Local Self- Government: enactment of laws at the local level“ was published in May 2008 as product of those meetings • Specific guide through the delegated activities prescribed by the law • It gives a clear overview of sanctions arising from these laws • It explains the role and place of inspection in putting the laws into effect, • It provides an insight into possibilities of financing projects from the Fund for Environmental Protection • It offers a schematic presentation of an optimum organization of the local self-government, required for an efficient implementation of the laws, as proposed by the Inspectorate of MESP

6. Trainings for judges and public prosecutors • WHAT • 3 trainings ’’Support to enforcement of the environmental protection legislation” were organized by Inspectorate during 2008 • ● WHY • to increase awareness of judges and public prosecutors on environmental issuesandbetter enforcement of environmental laws (i.e. attaining faster proceeding and timely reaction of judiciary to inspector’s files) • WHO • with participation of M.Dimovski, Senior Project Manager /Topic Area Leaderof ECENA Secretariat, and with support of OSCD • about 100 people from Ministry of Justice have been trained

7. New organization • 8 departments within the Inspectorate: • D. for environmental pollution protection, • D. for hazardous and other waste management control, • D. for nature and natural resources protection, • D. for inspection cooperation with international networks, local self-government and integrated approach on the border, • D. for accidents, • D. for waters and fishery, • D. of republic construction inspection, • D. for urbanistic inspection It provides specialization of inspectors for certain fields of work (e.g. pollution control, waste, IPPC, accidents, nature andnatural resources protection and fishing) • new systematization anticipates 191 employees within the Inspectorate, introducing the water management, construction and spatial planning inspectors

8. 1st NATIONAL ECENA TRAINING “Cadastre of polluters, SEVESO II and IPPC Directives” • With support of ECENA and according to multi annual working program of the Network organized by Serbian inspectorate • WHEN21-23.4.2008.on Tara • WHO participation of 30 republic environmental inspectors • 1 international expert, 5 lecturers from Inspectorate • 1 lecturer from IPPC Dept. and 1 lecturer from SEPA • TOPICS : • IPPC implementation in Serbia, • Seveso II directive, with regards to national legislation and also sharing the experience from ECENA training program on March 17-21, 2008, in Bristol, UK

9. 1st NATIONAL ECENA TRAINING • Investigations of the environmental crime, collecting the evidences and limitations during the criminal prosecution • Cooperation with local self-governments (decentralization of competences, proposal for organization of local environmental authorities, challenges in implementation of the environmental laws on local level with practical examples) • Presentation of the Regulation on methodology for Cadastre of polluters, and other topics with regards to Cadastre relative to Inspectorate

10. Participation in trainings organized or supported by ECENA

11. Participation in trainings organized or supported by ECENA – cont.

12. e-mail: svetlana.parezanin@ekoserb.sr.gov.yuweb site: www.ekoserb.sr.gov.yuTHANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!