Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction

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Fourth International Bussines ForumInvestment in
the Environment for a Better Quality of Life2.
October, SofiaENVIRONMENT and SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
NIKOLA RUINSKI
State Secretary
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NATIONAL STRATEGY IN CROATIA

• Strategic goals of Government of Croatia
• PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE IN FURTHER
  DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• Modern system of physical planning and monitoring
  of activities in space
• Sustainable tourism development in line with
  natural preservation of costal zone

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ENVIRONMENT

• The most of activities in environmental
  protection last 15 years, especially in recent
  years
• - National Environmental Protection Strategy in
  2002.
• - National Environmental Action Plan, NEAP
• Waste Management Strategy 2005-2025
• Waste Management Plan (july 2007)
• New Environmental Protection Act (sept. 2007)

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WATER RESOURCES

• Croatia has enough fresh water resources
  mainly ground water.
• About 75 of population have access to water
  network,
• Good ground water quality, mostly the natural
  organic and nitrate pollutants dissolved iron
  and manganese. In eastern Croatia higher
  concentration of arsenic.
• In costal zone, in carts area, resources of
  ground water springs and underground rivers a
  high quality of fresh water, but very sensitive
  to the pollution. Large protected areas.
• That needs the mayor investment in wastewater
  treatment.

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ADRIATIC SEA COSTAL ZONE DEVASTATION
AND PREVENTION

• The tourism is more and more attractive on the
  Adriatic coast,
• Great pressure for investment in the area.
• Building is not permitted within 100-m of the
  coastline
• Regulation on Protected Coastal Area (PCA) -
  development and conservation
• 220 areas of nature protection in PCA
• PCA - all the islands and a 1.000-m wide
  mainland and a 300-m wide marine belt measured
  from the coastline

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CLIMATE CHANGE

• Projects in the field of reduction of GHG
  emissions
• Energy sector renowable energy projects. Wind,
  hydro, biomass, solar, geothermal. EPEEF
• Transportation sector introducing bio fuels in
  Croatia,
• Energy efficiency in the construction sector is
  regulated by the Law on Construction and the
  Technical regulation on heating energy
  conservation and thermal protection of buildings
• Waste sector - use of landfill gas for
  electricity production
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WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

• Establishment of an integral waste management
  system
• Remediation and closing down of landnfils
• Remediation of environmentally highly burdened
  areas with waste (hot spots)
• Development of maximum 21 waste management
  centers
• Development of recycling facilities and primary
  selection of useful raw material from waste
• Through the Environmental Protection and Energy
  Efficiency Fond the remediation of 300 landfills
  (dumpsite) is organized, and is going to be
  finished in next two years.

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WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN

• The principle of waste management system
• - to reduce the waste volume through the
  primary selection and recycling the useful raw
  material (Packiging waste plastics, glass,
  metals, paper, Tires, ELV, WEE, Waste oil,
  Bateries, etc),
• to reduce the rest of the volume on the landfill
  by the mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) -
  ca 30 of todays volume.
• energy use of bio-gas from landfields (greenhouse
  gas emission).
• Packaging Waste Regulation only in two months
  we have cleaned up the country from PET bottles,
  Al-cans and glass
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Sources of financing

• PUBLIC SOURCES
• State budget
• budgets of local and regional self-government
  units
• EU funds
• the EPEEF
• bank loans

• PRIVATE SOURCES
• private investments in WMCs (PPP, concessions,
  etc.)
• private investments in primary separation and
  collection of waste recycling and collecting
  plants

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Financing strategy

• EPEEF - Environmental Protection and Energy
  Efficiency Fund (extra-budgetary fond) mayor
  financing agency for environmental protection in
  Croatia
• Revenue generates from SO2, NOx, CO2 emission
  charges (energy productionmotor vehicle), and
  Poluter-Pay-Principle charges (packiging, EE,
  Vehicles, Tires, Oil, Bateries . . ).
• PRIMARY SELECTION
• Polluter-Pay-Principle, through EPEEF
• WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTRES
• Public costs (Landfills, infrastructure and TS)
  will be financed up to 80 from EPEEF (and EU
  funds), and 20 by local authorities
• The costs of MBT plants will be financed by the
  private sector, within PPP

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WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTRES
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WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTRES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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• NATURE

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Protected Areas in Croatia

• 444 protected areas in Croatia
• (9,1 of the land territory)
• protection according to
• the Law on Nature Protection

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PROTECTED AREAS IN CROATIA
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