TAIEX Workshop on PCB Waste Management 16 17 Novembar 2006,Skopje, Macedonia

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TAIEX Workshop on PCB Waste Management 16 - 17
Novembar 2006,Skopje, Macedonia

• National activities and measures in addresing
  PCB waste management in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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• Ms. Nermina Skejovic Huric, NFP for POP-s
• Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations
  of BH
• Ms. Azra Baic,
• Ministry of Environment and Turism of F BH

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Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants (POP-s)

• BiH is within the under signatures of the
  Conventionon POP-s in (Stockholm in 2001), but it
  has not ratified yet
• In anticipation of ratification
• BiH has prepared proposal and applied to GEF for
  support in the preparation of a National
  Implementation Plan
• BiH is in the proccess the establishment of an
  operational unit to facilitate this process
  (Execution Agency)

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GEF POP-s BiH project prepared

• GEF Agency for Implementation UNIDO
• Project Title
• Enabeling Activities (EA) to facilitate early
• action on the implementation of the
• Stockholm Convention on Persistant
• Organic Pollutants (POP-s) in Bosnia and
• Herzegovina

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GEF (EA) POP s BiH

• Project focused Objectives
• The overall objective of this project is to
  strenghten national capacity and capability to
  prepare a National Implementation Plan (NIP) for
  the management of POP-s and its specific
  Strategies and Action Plans
• The NIP based on the POP-s inventories will
  provide a sound basis for strategic decision for
  indentification of priority activities, and for
  developing new policies, which will enable BiH to
  ratify and implement the Stockholm Convention on
  POP-s

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GEF (EA) POP-s BiH

• Project focused Objectives
• Round Table as a part of the Public
• Discussion on the POP-s project, prior to its
• consideration and approval by the GEF
• Secretariat (National GEF consultations and
• Main potential stakeholders of the project
• Meeting hold (2003)

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GEF (EA) POP-s BiH

• Basic project information
• Implementation period 2 years
• GEF Implementation Agency UNIDO
• BiH Implementation Agency MoFTER
• BiH Execution Agency (for project operation
  execut.)
• The selection is in proccess.
• Expected approval and initiation of the project
  is expected in December 2006

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GEF (EA) POP-S in BiH

• Main Project activities
• Establish a Pop-s Inventory System in BiH
  (production,trade,use,storage, releases, disposal
  opportunities)
• Assess curent legal institutional and technical
  capacities for management and monitoring of POP-s
  use
• Assess socio-economic. implications over POP-s
  use and reduction, raising awarnes on POP-s risks
  and identify substitution alternative chemicals
• Identify the priority actions and programmes
  concerning POP-s elimination in BiH
• Prepare a National Action Plan for POP- s
  elimination

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GEF (EA) POP-S in BiH

• Main indicators of the project
• Project management will be lead by BiH
• staff and implementation mostly relies of BiH
  experts
• Round tables and the thematic workshops (4)
• Training workshops (2 with 35 participants
  trainers)
• Technical papers and reports done by local
  task-teams coordinated by the Project Manager
  (local) and Chief
• Technical Advisor (international)
• Recruitment of national consultants in various
  working teams (108 w/month BiH consultants, 6
  w/m international expert)
• Endorsement of the NIP by the Government of
  Entities, District Brcko and Council of Ministers

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GEF (EA) POP-S in BiH

• Project expected outcomes
• National Implementation Plan (NIP) to meet the
  obligations of BiH under the Stockholm Convention
  implementation
• Identify and draft a National Programme of
  priorities (and eligible projects for GEF
  support) for the elimination of POP-s in BiH
• Established National capacities (institutional
  and human) for implementing of the NIP
• Established a National Reporting System of NIP
  and Stockholm Convention implementation (for BiH
  institution and public) and for International
  Authorities (Conference of the Stockholm
  Convention)

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GEF (EA) POP-S in BiH

• Key Stakeholders for Project implementa.
• Project coordination and management
• GEF Internat. Implementation Agency(IIA) UNIDO
• BiH-National Implementation Agency (NIA) MoFTER
• BiH National Execution Agency (NEA)
• will be selected on public tender
  (LCB)bases
• Project National Steering Committee BiH
  Sub-committee
• for POP-s
• Stakeholders in project implementation
• BiH institutions (State , Entit. Ministers and
  Agency, District Brcko )
• Scientific and Resarch Institutes, Faculties and
  Labs
• Industrial business organisations and Chambers
• Indenpended BiH experts

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Synergies with other strategic documents and
projects

• Solid Waste Management Strategy 2000
• EPR Environmental Performance Review (UNECE)
• Project Environmental Protection Assessment
  Report for Industrial, Medical and other
  Hazardous Wastes in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• State Parliament Commission on the POP-s accident
  at the River Neretva)
• Project Inventory of PCB-s

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Waste legal and policy framework is

• Set of Environmental laws
• Since 2002/2003 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (in
  both Entities) has adopted and come in to force
  the new set of environmental laws (environment,
  nature, air, water waste and eco found)
• Laws of waste management
• Laws on Waste Management are harmonized with EU
• Decision 94/904/EEC and EUDirective
  91/689/EEC.
• The Laws cover the management of all kinds of
  waste except radioactive waste.
• General requirements for hazardous waste and its
  inceneration.
• Condition for transboundary movement of hazardous
  waste inside and outside the entities.

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Secondary legislation

• The specific secondary legislation will
  additionally regulate waste oils management
  (Decree on collective system, packaging, and
  designation of waste-adopted on June
  2006)-harmonised with EC Directives
• Generators of used oil are obliged to collect at
  least the minimum percentage of the used oil
  generated specified in the following table
• Type of Used Oil Minimum amount to be collected
  ()
• Motor Oils 45
• Gear and Transmission Oils 75
• Hydraulic Oils 75
• Turbine Oils 80
• Compressor Oils 50
• Electric Insulation Oils 80
• Heat Transfer Oils 70
• Metalworking Oils and Emulsions 50
• Slideway Oils 20

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Ongoing activities

• Set up data base on origins, quantities and types
  of waste, facilities for handling waste, actor
  involved with waste (link with Aarhus Convention
  and PRTR Environmental data system)
• Set of a network of solid waste laboratories with
  an observatory on the state level
• The Project Background Analysis for Development
  and Establishment of a Lubricating Oil Management
  System - UNEP/MAP

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Export of waste with PCB, according to the Basel
Convention

• 2003, waste with PCB (Transformations,
  Capacitors,Oil with PCB, solid waste with PCB)
  from two company JP Elektroprivreda BiH and RS
  transported to France on final treatment
  inceneration (19.355 kg)
• 2006, from six company JP Elektroprivreda BiH
  Volkswagen, Skenderija, Bosanka, Unis-UTL and
  Mittal Steel Zenica transported (182.390 kg)

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Main problem in waste management

• Insufficient number of waste treatment and
  disposal facilities, especially those for
  treating hazardous wastes
• Inadequate financing system for waste management
• Lack of training and education of experts,
  authorities and general public
• Lack of waste management information system
• Legal regulation for hazardous wastes (secondary
  legislation) on types of waste and the methods
  for handling specific types of hazardous wastes)
  do not exist
• A registry of hazardous waste generations as weel
  as cadastre of the total generated hazardous
  waste does not exist (with exception of Canton
  Sarajevo that prepared a hazardous inventory in
  the year 2000)

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How the difficulties, concerns and obstacles
could be removed

• Establish and enhance institutional environmental
  set up at state level
• Set a time table for preparing all implementing
  by-laws for the Laws on waste management,
  including regulations, norms and standards
  consistent with EU practices
• Establishment of database of waste
• Environmental audits of hazardous waste sites or
  hot-spotshave been conducted
• Introduction of fees for the hazardous waste
  generation

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• Thank you very much for your attention!