PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

1. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW Authors: Jasna Paladin-Popović Iva Milić Štrkalj Renata Sinovčević Brijuni, 27 November 2002 11/21/02 Croatia

2. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review • Who is issuing permits and based on what? • State administration bodies based on legal provisions • What is encompassed by the permit issuance system? • Products on the market • Toxic agents, hazardous active substances and explosive substances • Waste import, export • Buildings and plants • Environmental protection institutions

3. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review • MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND PHYSICAL PLANNING • Site permits and construction permits • Permits for export of hazardous waste and export and import of industrial waste, based on the opinion by the Ministry of Economy • Decisions on acceptability of intended interventions in environment with environmental protection measures and a plan of special measures • Decisions on consent to the environmental protection institutions (measuring emissions and immissions, monitoring, drafting a Study on Assessment of Environmental Effects - SAEE)

4. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review • STATE WATERS AUTHORITY • WATER MANAGEMENT PERMITS • Production and trade of chemical substances and their preparations • Water utilisation • Waste waters • Exploitation of sand, gravel, and stone • WATER MANAGEMENT CONDITIONS • For construction of water power plants; thermal power plans; waste disposal, treatment, and storage facilities • WATER MANAGEMENT PERMITS

5. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review • MINISTRY OF HEALTH • Import and trade of toxic agents, medicines, and narcotics • MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY • Import and trade of herbicides, mineral fertilizers and veterinary medicines • MINISTRY OF ECONOMY • Import of substances damaging the ozone layer based on consent by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning • Launching on the market of a specific quantity of oil derivatives not in compliance with the stipulated quality • MINISTRY OF INTERIOR • Transport of explosive substances • MINISTRY OF MARITIME AFFAIRS, TRAFFIC AND COMMUNICATIONS • Transport of hazardous substances by the sea

6. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review HEAT PROCESSING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE ISITE PERMIT • Drafting a Study on Assessment of Environmental Effects • Decision by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning on admissibility of the intended intervention, with environmental measures and a plan of special measures

7. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATA –Environmental Review HEAT PROCESSING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE IICONSTRUCTION PERMIT • Site permit • Consent by the Ministry of Interior – fire and explosives safety • Consent by the power distribution company • Sanitary consent – Ministry of Health • Water management consent – Croatian Waters Authority • Consent by the State Inspector – safety at work

8. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review HEAT PROCESSING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE IIIAPPLICATION FOR PERMIT • Decision on registration in the Register of Companies or Trades • Declaration on the responsible person and his/her deputy • Copies of the employment record showing the qualifications and work experience of the responsible person and his/her deputy • Technical documents of the installation and technological process description • Construction license

9. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review HEAT PROCESSING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE IVSUPERVISION ON INSTALLATION • Checking the compliance with the prescribed technical and technological conditions of the installation for heat processing of hazardous waste • Checking the compliance with the prescribed technical and technological conditions for storage of hazardous waste • Trial work of incineration equipment with measurement of pollutants emission in waste gases

10. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review HEAT PROCESSING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE V DECISION BY MEP&PP on compliance with the requirements for heat processing of hazardous waste

11. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review • CONCLUSION: • There is a great number of legal provisions and bodies defining by their permits the conditions for performance of activities and monitoring their implementation. • Overlapping of the inspection competences is a cause of reduced efficiency in determination of actual competence in case of undertaking specific measures. • Long process of permit issuance. • Need to harmonize the system and form a single competent body for permit issuance, whose inspection would supervise the implementation of the measures.

12. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review • IPPC Directive recommendation • All individual permits should be unified into a single one that would encompass all the environmental effects and contain the safety at work conditions and environmental protection by use of the BAT- Best Available Technique, which would reduce the pollutants emissions to the environment and reduce the probability of accidents. • Cooperation of government representatives, industry, and inspection services in drafting of the permit. • Permits for identical industries must be standardised. • In the final formulation, technical solutions, geographic location of the plant and local conditions of significance for environment protection should be taken into account.

13. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA –Environmental Review PAST

14. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA-Environmental Review PRESENT

15. PERMIT ISSUANCE SYSTEM IN CROATIA – Environmental Review FUTURE • Application of IPPC Directive and use of BAT-Best Available Technique

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