ENEA, 12' September 2005

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ENEA, 12. September 2005
WWF Handbook and Score-card Presentation by
Stefanie Lang,
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WWF Handbook, April 2005
Available in English, French, German, Polish,
Bulgarian, Romanian. Forthcoming in Italian.

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• WWF Score-card project
• Fields of examination
• Allocation and management of resource shares to
  the different sectors/problems
• Content of the document and commitment to
  integration and sustainable development
• Drafting process of the document and degree of
  participation and consultation

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1) Money allocation
1. Shares of resources actually going directly
into environmental protection and nature
conservation? 1.a. Shares of money going into
environmental infrastructure? 1.b. Shares of
money going into Kyoto target achievement? 1.c. Sh
ares of money going into WFD? 1.d. Shares of
money going into Natura 2000? 2. Shares of money
going indirectly in to environmental protection
and nature conservation? 2.a. Shares of money for
environmental management systems like
EMAS? 2.b. Shares of money for training in the
environmental field of public sector? 2.c. Shares
of money for training in the environmental field
of private sector? 3. Shares of money planned
for transport infrastructure? 3.a. Shares of
money planned for road transport
infrastructure? 3.b. Shares of money planned for
air transport infrastructure? 3.c. Shares of
money planned for public/ rail/ pedestrian/
bicycle transport?
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1) Money allocation continued
4. Shares of money planned for soft measures?
4.a. Shares of money planned for TA?
4.b. Shares of money planned for co-operation at
regional/national level? 4.c. Shares of money
planned for capacity-building of partners? 5.
Silo allocation versus problem allocation?
5.a. Is money divided by sectoral chapters (like
Transport)? 5.b. Is money further subdivided by
problem headings (Transport strengthening of
public transport in towns)? 5.c. Are subdivisions
of chapters involving cross-sectoral and
cross-institutional implementation? 6.
Environmental authorities as managing
authorities? 6.a. How many and which chapters
(OPs) are under the main responsibility of the
environmental authorities/ministries? 6.b. How
many and which OPs are managed in co-operation
with the environmental authorities/
ministries? 6.c. How many and which OPs contain a
consultation and /or partnership function of the
environmental authorities/ministries?
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2) Environmental Commitment
1. Reference to environment and sustainable
development as EU priority 1.a. Is there a
reference to EU environmental 6th Action
programme in the general aim of use of Regional
Funds? 1.b. Is there a reference to EU goals
like Kyoto goals or halting biodiversity in the
general aim of use of Regional Funds? 2.
Reference to key EU directives, legislation,
goals? 2.a. Is there specific mentioning of
energy efficiency and renewable energy measures
in the NSD? 2.b. Is there specific mentioning of
measures to support Natura 2000 network? 2.c. Is
there specific mentioning of the water framework
directive? 2.d. Is there specific mentioning of
environmentally-friendly modes of transport? 3.
Horizontal integration of environment 3.a. Is
there specific mentioning of the need for
horizontal integration? 3.b. Are mechanisms
described to ensure the integration? 3.c. Are
resources allocated to ensure this? (training,
technical assistance) planned for TA?
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2) Env. committment continued
4. Institutional set-up for environmental
integration 4.a. Is one institution responsible
for driving the integration process? 4.b. Are
inter-ministerial co-operation mechanisms
envisaged? 4.c. Are mechanisms envisaged to help
institutions moving to a more issue-oriented
agenda than merely acting sectoral? 5.
Safeguarding mechanisms for environmental
integration? 5.a. Is a clear framework in place
to assess environmental impacts? 5.b. Does this
assessment contain a SEA procedure? 5.c. Will
the assessment and /or SEA be applied before the
implementation of the programme? 5.d. Will the
assessment and /or SEA be applied by independent
bodies?
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6. Sustainable development 6.a. Is explicit
reference to the Göteborg agenda and sustainable
development made in the general aim of Regional
Funds? 6.b. Is there a clear link between
strategic priorities and objectives of the
national sustainable development
strategy? 6.c. Is monitoring envisaged for
achievements in sustainable development? 6.d. Are
indicators available or developed to monitor
achievements in sustainable development? 7.
Compliance to environmental legislation 7.a. Is
the compliance with EU environmental law
stated? 7.b. Are mechanisms planned to check this
compliance in the implementation (i.e.
eligibility criteria)? 7.c. Are resources
allocated to ensure compliance? (training,
technical assistance)
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3) Drafting process
1. Inter-ministerial consultation 1.a. Is there a
clear lead ministry/authority/unit to develop the
NSD? 1.b. Is inter-ministerial consultation
applied during the NDS development? 1.c. Is the
Ministry of Environment taking part as equal
partner in this consultation? 1.d. Are there
roughly the same levels of hierarchies involved
in the consultations? 1.e. Is there consistency
in the way the various inputs of ministries are
treated? 2. Partnership principle 2.a. Are
social partners involved in the drafting
procedure? 2.b. Are economic partners involved in
the drafting procedure? 2.b. Are environmental
partners involved in the drafting
procedure? 2.c. When are environmental partners
consulted, from the beginning, at a later stage
or in the end of the development of the NSD?
2.d. Are all partners treated and consulted
equally and at the same stage?
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3. Transparency 3.a. Are all information and
documents used to draft the NSD shared
transparently with all the partners? 3.b. Are
drafts of the document publicly
available? 3.c. Is there a publication or even
consultation procedure planned for the final
version? 3.d. Is it clear who played what role in
the development of the document? 4.
Participation of civil society 4.a. Are
representatives of civil society involved in the
drafting procedure? 4.b. Do they have the same
access to all information as other
partners?4.c. Are the representatives chosen by
their peers and / or in a democratic
procedure? 4.d. Are the representatives of NGOs
treated as equal to the other partners?4.e. When
are they consulted, from the beginning, at a
later stage or after the drafting of the NSD?
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5. Access to information 5.a. Was necessary
information communicated to all partners? 5.b.
Was necessary information communicated timely
enough for partners to prepare or comment? 5.c.
Was there a feed-back mechanism for all comments
and inputs applied for civil society
participation?
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• Questions to ENEA
• Is the level of detail right?
• Is some important issue missing?
• Will NSRF documents contain this info?
• What is the best timing?
• Could we co-operate?

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