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Learn how to shift from oppressive to cooperative enforcement in solving violations with authorities and companies, ensuring environmental improvements and sustainable practices. Develop your skills in communication, negotiation, and cooperative problem-solving. Practice by simulating a meeting on inspection results.
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Problem solving with inspection resultsMarcel StigterPolicy AdvisorDCMR
Inspection results • Storage of hazardous chemicals on a non resistant floor • Air pollution: emission of 75 mg/m3 sulphur dioxide instead of 50 mg/m3 • The abstraction of ground water was 40% more than licit
Oppressive enforcement Objective • A tool for finding and fining violations
Oppressive enforcement • Reaction authorities • fining the violations • Reaction companies • Keep on violating until the costs of fines will be higher than the profits of violating or • The economic situation of the company is too bad to invest in the necessary measures or • Pay the fine and stop violating
Oppressive enforcement • Results • continued environmental problems • possible soil pollution • air pollution with sulphur dioxide • dehydration of nature/soil and/or • a company with a bad economic performance • no improvement of environmental performance • unemployment and/or • solved violations and a minimum environmental performance
Oppressive enforcement Objective • Finding violations and improvements and solving them in cooperation with the company • Use high fining as a pressure instrument
Cooperative enforcement Reaction authorities and companies A cooperative attitude to solve the violations and discuss improvements of the environmental performance
Cooperative enforcement Results • Solved violations within an approved timepath • Priority sequence in solving • Implementation of investments in balance with the economic performance of the company • Good relation between authorities and company
Skills to make cooperative enforcement succesfull • Good knowledge of alternative technical solutions • Communication and negotiation skills • Knowledge of economic performances and possibilities
Exercise • Prepare and execute a meeting between authorities and company on the inspection results • The meeting must result in an approved agreement with implementation time path
Groups Groups of 6 persons • 1 chairman • 1 secretary • 2 persons acting as company representatives • 2 persons acting as authority representatives