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Mr. Muhamet Malsiu, Acting Head Mr. Muhamet Malsiu, Acting Head Environmental Inspectorate MESP Environmental Inspectorate MESP Kosovo (territory under UN interim Kosovo (territory under UN interim administration) administration) Ministry of Environment Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of and Spatial Planning of Kosovo Kosovo ECENA ECENA 1st Plenary Meeting, 19-20 January, 1st Plenary Meeting, 19-20 January, Zagreb, Croatia 2006 Zagreb, Croatia 2006

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Mr. Muhamet Malsiu, Acting Head Mr. Muhamet Malsiu, Acting Head Environmental Inspectorate MESPEnvironmental Inspectorate MESP

Kosovo (territory under UN interim administration)Kosovo (territory under UN interim administration)

Ministry of Environment Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of and Spatial Planning of

KosovoKosovo

ECENA ECENA 1st Plenary Meeting, 19-20 January,1st Plenary Meeting, 19-20 January, Zagreb, Croatia 2006 Zagreb, Croatia 2006

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Environmental LegislationEnvironmental Legislation in forcein force

Framework Law for Environmental Protection (is in procedure of revising)

Law for Air Protection (2004) Law for Water (2004) Law for Spatial Planning (2004)

Administrative Instruction (Adm.In.) for Environmental Impact Assessment (compliant with EU Directives 85/337/EEC and 97/11/EC) and the related Adm.In. regarding the licensing of persons and companies for compiling of EIA reports

Adm.In. establishing the Environmental Protection Inspectorate (is in procedure of revising)

Adm.In. establishing the Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency

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Law proposals for which Law proposals for which approval still is pendingapproval still is pending

Nature Protection Law (approved in parliament)

Law for Waste Management and Disposal (approved in parliament)

Law for protection from noise (expected to be approved within this year)

Law about protection from radioactivity (expected to be approved within this year)

Low about IPPC (expected to be approved within this year)

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Administrative Instructions proposals Administrative Instructions proposals for which approval still is pendingfor which approval still is pending

Administrative Directive-on regulation and Administrative Directive-on regulation and standards for emissions from stationary sources-standards for emissions from stationary sources-draftdraft

Administrative Directive-on regulation and Administrative Directive-on regulation and standards for emissions from mobile sources-draftstandards for emissions from mobile sources-draft

Administrative directive-on environmental permit-Administrative directive-on environmental permit-draftdraft

Other administrative directives from horizontal Other administrative directives from horizontal and vertical legislations are in procedure of and vertical legislations are in procedure of developmentdevelopment

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Development of policy frameworkDevelopment of policy framework

Environmental Strategy for KosovoEnvironmental Strategy for Kosovo Kosovo Environmental Action Plan-Kosovo Environmental Action Plan-

ongoing-financed by SIDA and ongoing-financed by SIDA and implementing by REC Office in implementing by REC Office in KosovoKosovo

Kosovo Spatial plane-ongoingKosovo Spatial plane-ongoing Energy strategy for Kosovo-is in Energy strategy for Kosovo-is in

procedure for approvalprocedure for approval

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•At the local level, with more than 30 inspectors, one for each of municipalities (except Prishtina municipality, which has two inspectors)

•At the local level, with more than 30 inspectors, one for each of municipalities (except Prishtina municipality, which has two inspectors)

At the central level, inspecting competences are attributed to:

• Environmental and Water Inspectorate• Inspectorates for Housing/Construction and for Spatial

Planning are also envisaged by the respective laws

At the central level, inspecting competences are attributed to:

• Environmental and Water Inspectorate• Inspectorates for Housing/Construction and for Spatial

Planning are also envisaged by the respective laws

The competences for environmental inspections are distributed among different offices and levelsThe competences for environmental inspections are distributed among different offices and levels

Environmental InspectingEnvironmental Inspecting in Kosovoin Kosovo

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Efficiency of inspectionsEfficiency of inspections(national level)(national level)

Inspections n. 134 inspections in different companies

Outcomes of inspections

tot. n. 27 decisions,

of which:

n. 7 requests to companies to submit formal EIA to MESP

n. 9 orders to suspend operations

n. 11 recommendations to address specific aspects of operations

No data available on inspections carried out at the municipal level

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Thank you for your attentionThank you for your attention

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