ITTAG 2000 Athens

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ITTAG 2000 Athens
CIRCLE in Belgium
Flemish Environment Agency Jan Voet
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Belgium Environment

• Federal organized Country
• Environment and environmental data are mainly
  regional Competencies
• No federal supervision
• Regions can act on the international level

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Interregional Cell for the Environment

• 1994 Agreement between regions for collaboration
  concerning Air Issues
• 1995 Agreement between regions to establish
  Belgian National Focal Point
• 1995 Agreement between regions and federal level
  to contribute to Belgian NFP

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NFP-Tasks Interregional Cell

• Intelligent secretariat between EEA Belgian
  EIONETs
• Promote Electronic EIONET
• Development database for EEA (other?)
• If possible provide common or co-ordinated
  Belgian Answer
• Manpower 2 persons Flanders
  

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Belgian EIONETs

• Flemish Network (12 MCEs)
• Walloon Network (8 MCEs)
• Brussels Network (2 MCEs)
• Federal Network (10 MCEs)
• Interregional Cell (1 MCE)

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Principles Belgian EIONET

• Monthly NFP-co-ordination meeting
• Concept NRC does not work
• Determine experts from different political levels
  (3 regionsfederal) per Issue (not only
  ETC-Issues)
• NFPPCP for all issues
• NFP co-ordinates and monitors Information flow
  since 01.01.1997

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Statistics
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Typology Incoming Documents Reaction

• Questionnaires - Answers
• Draft Reports - Comments
• Workshops - Participation
• Nomination - Decision
• Visits - Organization
• Information - Dessimination

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CIRCLE in Belgium

• A lot of people to be informed (10-15)
• Paper dessimination is labour intensive
• Most Belgian MCEs have access to Internet
• CIRCLE is work information
• Start 01.08.98

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CIRCLE in Belgium
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CIRCLE in Belgium
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Principles CIRCLE in Belgium

• Information as open as possible
• Archive - Repository - Log - History of formal
  Information Flows (requests)
• Automatic forwarding to Experts
• Focus on Belgian Networks
• -217 users
• Shift from paper to bits bytes