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Voluntary instruments

• Daniel Hajek

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• Voluntary instruments

• Environmental labelling
• EMAS
• Cleaner productions
• Green public procurement
• Voluntary agreements

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Ecolabelling I. type

• The National Programme for Labelling
  Environmentally friendly products and services
• Government Decision No. 159/1993
• Programme of EU Ecolabel
• Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 in the Czech Republic.

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Coexistence of the Programmes

• Based on same principals ISO 14024
• Same procedures of awarding process
• Harmonization of criteria wherever it is possible
• Manufacturers can gain both the (Environmentally
  Friendly Product / Service) and the EU Ecolabel
  (The Flower)

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Involved institutions

• Ministry of the Environment
• guarantor of the program
• overall design and management, coherence with
  other policies
• publication of the newly approved technical
  guidelines / criteria
• final approval and signature
• CENIA Ecolabelling agency
• ensure the preparation and processing of criteria
• registers and handles registration of applicants
• provides applicants and other interested parties
  information support system
• keep a register of experts and specialized
  habitats, authorized and accredited testing
  laboratories
• Others
• Czech Environmental Inspectorate
• universities
• laboratories and technical institutes

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Awarding process
Applicant
CENIA

• Send Application letter/ On-line form
• Submit all relevant documents
• Pay fee(s)

• Send a final report and certificate

• Check conformity with criteria
• Help applicant

MoE

• Send / give a signed certificate

Sign a contract
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Other activities

• Promotional activities
• public survey
• new web site
• project from Swiss-Czech Cooperation Programme
• new promotional documents
• Strategic discussion

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Ecolabelling

• The development of the directives, companies and
  licenses

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Ecolabelling

• The development of the companies and licenses
  EU Ecolabel in the CZ

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Ecolabelling II. and III. type

• National Program of Environmental labelling
• Government Decision No. 26 and 356/2007
• Self-declared environmental claims
• Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

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Involved institutions

• Ministry of the Environment
• guarantor of the program
• CENIA
• registers and handles registration
• Czech Accreditation Institute
• National accreditation body - gives accreditation
• Sectoral operator
• Product Category Rules
• Independent Verifier
• validate products

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Process
CENIA
CAI
Information
Applicant
Information
accreditation
registration
Information
Independent verifier
Information

MoE
Information
Information
PCR
Sectoral operator
Validation
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Environmental labelling type II. and III.

• Self-declared environmental claims
• 0
• Environmental Product Declarations
• 31

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EPD - activities

• CENDEC - Centre for Environmental Declarations
  was established (civil association)
• the aim of the Centre is the operation of the EPD
  and expand the use of the concept of life cycle
  assessment of environmental impacts

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EMAS

• Czech Republic has introduced EMAS through a
  "national program" in 1998 (now the Government
  Resolution No 651/2002).
• After joining EU in 2004 rules are given
  directly by European legislation, currently
  Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009.

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Involved institutions

• Ministry of the Environment
• guarantor of the program
• CENIA EMAS agency
• registers and handles registration
• Czech Environmental Inspectorate
• gives its position
• Czech Accreditation Institute
• gives accreditation
• Environmental Verifier auditor
• validate companies

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EMAS Council
information
information
information
Czech Environmental Inspectorate
Czech Acreditation Institute
information
standpoint
EMAS Agency
acreditation
information
information registration
Financial Funds
Environmental Verifier
finance
validation
Organization
The Public
Validated Environmental Statement
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EMAS

• Numbers of Enterprises

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EMAS - activities

• Financial incentive
• Ministry of the Environment Revolving Fund
• (6 projects)
• Legislative incentive
• Law for public procurement
• Law on prevention of environmental damage and its
  remedy

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Cleaner Production

• Cleaner production projects are implemented in
  the Czech Republic since the early nineties of
  the last century.
• Cleaner production was formally established by
  signing the International Declaration on Cleaner
  Production in the 1998 and the establishment of
  National Cleaner Production Programme (Government
  Resolution No. 165/2000).

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Cleaner Production

• Incentives
• Financial
• Ministry of the Environment Revolving Fund
• Czech Republic implemented two major projects
  focusing on cleaner production, among which was
  the initial assessment of sustainable consumption
  and production in 20 companies and dozens of
  trained consultants.

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Cleaner Production

• National Cleaner Production Programme was
  enrolled by one hundred companies,
• Subjects can use the services of 60 trained
  consultants.
• (The total number of projects, including
  unregistered companies, applying cleaner
  production is higher)

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Green public procurement

• In the next episode (tomorrow)

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Voluntary agreements

• Ministry of the Environment signed approximately
  40 voluntary agreements
• only 4 or 5 are the true voluntary agreements
• state (MoE) has nothing to offer
• problems with enforceability and the fulfillment
  of the principles for Agreements

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Examples of voluntary agreements

• Agreement with association of laundry detergent
  producers on the gradual reduction of the impact
  of laundry detergents on the environment
• Agreement with Czech Dental Chamber on the
  reduction water pollution by amalgam from health
  facilities

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Thank you for attention