Environmental Information

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REReP 1.8 Wrap-up/Training Workshop June 19-20,
2003 Sofia, Bulgaria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Environmental Information System Development
Status Update
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Current Status I
EIS in BH

• EI - few

• NO S (ystem)!

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Current Status II
Institutional set-up - two entities the
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Republika Srpska. MoAWMFs are responsible for
water management issues at the entities' level,
environmental protection is the responsibility of
the MoPPE in the FBH and the MoPPCEE in
Republika Srpska (RS). Moreover, the Federation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into ten
cantons which each have their own Ministries of
Physical Planning and Environment.
Legal framework new set of Environmental Laws
adopted in both entitites
Data collection and management - no environmental
information system for the central storage of
data, in electronic or paper format, in either
the FBH or RS, and also no regulated system for
environmental reporting in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Current Status III
Information dissemination - no system regulating
environmental reporting and dissemination in BH.
The Aarhus Convention has not yet been ratified
or adopted. The process of responding to
individual requests for environmental information
is regulated in the Federation by the Minister
himself. Requests must be submitted formally in
writing and the Minister or his deputy will
transfer these to the responsible department.
Under former Law on Physical Planning, requests
must be answered within 15-30 days. Publications,
leaflets, studies and brochures are published by
different institutions but as production is not
clearly mandated, content, and format varies from
organisation to organisation. A state of the
environment report for Bosnia and Herzegovina was
compiled and published by FBiH MoPPE in 1998, and
access provided online via the Internet. It has
not been updated yet.
Use of environmental reporting in decisionmaking
almost no reporting
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Present situation
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Objective
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Future possible data flow
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Projects Synergy
ROSA LIFE Third Countries project Setting up
and Operational Unit under the Environmental
Steering Committee operational unit has some
basic functions of EPA REReP 1.8 Work Package
A - Hardware Purchase for RS MoE Work Package B
Portal Development Work Package C Data
Management
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Tangible Developments Progress
Work Package A - Hardware Purchase for RS MoE

• Objectives To bridge the gap in missing
  hardware and LAN
• Implemented purchased server, two desktop
  computers, printer, LAN installed in RS MoE
• Benefits necessary equipment obtained

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Tangible Developments Progress
Work Package B Portal Development

• Objectives To enable data presentation and to
  ease communication with relevant authorities in
  both entities
• Implemented workshops on content delivered,
  domains registered and web space rented, e-mail
  accounts established, sites drafted
• To be implemented further site development and
  management, training of MoEs personnel
• Benefits access to information

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Tangible Developments Progress
Work Package C Data Management

• Objectives To enable MoEs for data management
• To be implemented training of MoEs personnel
  for environmental data management, ToR for DMS
• Benefits knowledge on data management,
  prerequisite for environmental reporting

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Future Priorities

• Foreseen actions selection of MCEs, NRCs, PCPs
  (priorities water, waste, air, nature) (S)EPA
  ?
• Available funding LIFE Third Countries project
• Required assistance - (S)EPA ?

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Further Information.
Mr. Mladen Rudez Email mladen.rudez_at_fmpuio.gov.b
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