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2Environment Work Programme
8 January 2009
3Environment Programme presentation - Prague, 8
Jan 2009
Czech Presidency 2009
- Motto Europe without Barriers
- Key issues 3E
- Economy - Competitiveness, the Four Freedoms, and
Liberal Trade Policy - Energy and climate change
- Europe open and secure
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Jan 2009
Main environment priorities 1. Climate change 2.
Protection of human health and the environment 3.
Sustainable consumption and production 4.
Biodiversity protection
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Jan 2009
Climate change
- Negotiations with key global partners
- Negotiations with key global partners - outreach
activities with the USA, China, Brazil, India,
Japan and others be carried out in Troika format
participation at G8, G20, MEM and other fora. The
objective of CZ PRES is to prepare necessary
elements for reaching an agreement in Copenhagen,
December 2009 on binding targets of keeping the
rise of the average global temperature below 2
degrees Celsius (IPCC recommendation) - Agreement at EU level on the financial
arrangements EU contribution to the envisaged
agreement in Copenhagen - Adaptation to Climate Change - debate on
approaches and instruments across Europe at
informal Council
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Jan 2009
Protection of human health and the environment
- Industrial emissions and integrated prevention
and pollution control - The objective is to widen the scale of the
sectors included, esp. combustion installations
20 50 MW, waste and waste water treatment as
well as production of wood-based panels - It is necessary to intensify the role of the
Best Available Techniques by the clarification of
the role of the BAT reference documents (BREFs) - Some competences of the European Comission in
the proposal would go to the national level
(subsidiarity principle) - We aim to reach a political agreement on the EU
Environment Council level on the Directive on
Industrial Emmissions (IPPC) -
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Protection of human health and the environment
- National emission ceilings (NEC)
- After the agreement on climate/energy package we
requested the European Commission to submit the
proposal on revision of the NEC directive to
start negotiations soon - High importance for all member states - air
quality is one of the most serious problems of
the European environment - New emission ceilings for NOx, SO2, VOC and NH3
related to 2020 are needed to reduce
acidification, eutrophication and ground-level
ozone. Particle air pollution is very problematic
and has significant health impacts. Therefore we
particularly welcome that the directive will
include also emission caps for PM2,5. - We want to start the discussion and have a
policy debate in June Environment Council.
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Protection of human health and the environment
- Ozone depleting substances (ODS)
- The main objective of the Recast is to simplify
and to streamline the Regulation to remove
obsolete sections and to address future
challenges - Revised regulation will limit the extent of
exceptions for certain ODS (i.e. methylbromide or
CFCs in laboratories). - Ban four new ODS not covered by the Montreal
Protocol (risk of future increases in
consumption) will be introduced - Objective to achieve first reading agreement
with the European Parliament or at least
political agreement in the Council.
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Jan 2009
Protection of human health and the environment
- Waste management
- We will discuss the issue of management of
bio-waste based on Commissions Green Paper and
adopt Council Conclusions to guide follow-up work
(including legislative) in this area. - Aiming to unify bio-waste management practice in
the EU member states (eg. emission limits,
technical requirements, etc.). - The Commission has proposed revision of two
directives concerning WEEE (waste electric and
electronic equipments), including proposals for
new collection targets. We will open discussion
on this issue in the 2nd half of our Presidency. - We will discuss at March Environment Council
also the situation on the recycled waste market
in light of the global economic crisis.
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Jan 2009
Protection of human health and the environment
- International level - chemicals
- We will do utmost at the 25th UNEP Governing
Council meeting in February in Nairobi to reach
an agreement on the need of legally binding
instrument on mercury to reduce its negative
impact to the environment and health worldwide. - We will also head the EU delegation at the
Stockholm Convention 4th COP in May in Geneva.
Main task of the conference will be listing new
substances into Annexes of the Convention (POPs
Review Committee recommends 9 new substances to
be incuded). - The International Conference on Chemicals
Management (SAICM) in Geneva is to také stock in
progress and give guidance for future
implementation of the sound chemicals management
globally.
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Jan 2009
Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Revision of Ecolabelling Scheme
- The aim is to give a real chance and opportunity
to EU citizens and consumers to choose green in
much larger scale of products - Simplification of procedures, lowering costs and
higher cohesion among the European scheme and
national ones will help producers to participate
on the ecolabelling program - Objective To achieve the first reading
agreement with the European Parliament or at
least political agreement in the Council.
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Jan 2009
Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Revision of EMAS Regulation
- Now we have about 6000 EMAS certified
organisations in the EU. Revised Regulation could
result in 17 000 more organisations certified by
2015 - Revision should bring simplification of annual
auditing of certified organisations but also
strenghten the role of inspectional bodies. - Revised Regulation will bring new instrument for
enterprises reference documents which can be
used then as well understandable guidelines the
general objective is to raise attractivity of the
instrument. - Objective to achieve first reading agreement
with the European Parliament or at least
political agreement in the Council.
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Jan 2009
Biodiversity Protection
- Soil Directive
- Efficient protection of soil is closely
connected to the human health, maintaining
biodiversity and fighting climate change (both
adaptation and mitigation) CZ PRES favours
adoption of the Soil Directive. - We need common rules how to manage the soil to
protect it against erosion, contamination and
other degradation. - We aim to reach a political agreement of the EU
member states by trying to find mutually
acceptable compromises on remaining sensitive
issues (e.g. soil contamination).
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Biodiversity Protection
- Trading in Seal Products
- Despite of absence of seals in the Czech
environment, we have a very long and succesful
tradition in nature and biodiversity protection. - Therefore we can serve as a good and independent
moderator of the negotiations on this Regulation
in the Council and with the European Parliament. - Czech Presidency aims to reach a first reading
agreement between the Council and the Parliament.
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Important Events
Towards eEnvironment Conference
- 25th - 27th March 2009, Prague
Wilderness Conference
- 27th - 29th May 2009, Prague
Informal Environment Council
- 12th - 13th June 2009, Prague
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