Policy instruments
Discover the policy instruments that the partners of this project are tackling.
A means for public intervention. It refers to any policy, strategy, or law developed by public authorities and applied on the ground to improve a specific territorial situation. In most cases, financial resources are associated with a policy instrument. However, an instrument can also sometimes refer to a legislative framework with no specific funding. In the context of Interreg Europe, operational programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs as well as Cooperation Programmes from European Territorial Cooperation are policy instruments. Beyond EU cohesion policy, local, regional, or national public authorities also develop their own policy instruments.
The Regional Programme "European Funds for Kujawy and Pomorze 2021-2027" is a tool serving to position the region as a competitive and innovative one within Europe, there by enhancing the quality of life for its residents. It is crafted upon thorough socio-economic analyses of the region and its developmental challenges. The instrument receives co-funding from both the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF+). The oversight of the programme lies with the Management Board of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship.
The Priority connected with ENLIA is "Priority 2: European Funds for Clean Energy and Protection of the Region's Environmental Resources", specifically "Objective 2.7: Enhancing the protection and conservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure". This includes efforts to mitigate various forms of pollution during the instrument´s tenure from 2021 to 2027.
Executing these objectives will foster heightened protection of environmentally significant areas, their nature and biodiversity, while facilitating the sustainable usage of environmental resources.
Activities aimed at environmental education might lead to enduring benefits, fostering ecological awareness among residents regarding environmental usage, management and advocacy for preservation.
ENLIA project will address the Priority and Objective described, channelling through them the knowledge gained during the cooperation and maximizing the instrument resources.
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The ERDF ROP Andalucia 2021-2027 is the instrument to plan the measures that the Andalusia Regional Government is going to finance with ERDF support.
Priority 2A, “Green transition” includes the Specific Goal “RS02.7. Increase the protection and conservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructures and reduce all forms of pollution”.
The measures in Specific Goal RS02.7 are divided into 2 areas: the first, directed at sustainability and environmental values, including actions to protect nature, biodiversity and environmental infrastructures. The second, to reduce all forms of pollution, in compliance with the “polluter pays” principle. The target groups are authorities, companies and the general public, all of them target groups when implementing the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD). €32,000,000 from this Priority are managed by the DG leading the project.
Goal RS02.7 is, therefore, an ideal framework to import and develop new projects and approaches inspired by ENLIA.
Resources in Specific Goal “RS02.4 Encourage adaptation to climate change and prevention of the risk of catastrophes” will also be considered, since financing for “creation of tools that serve to prevent risks relating to uncontrolled spillages” and “other measures to monitor and prevent harmful organisms” is available.
ENLIA will, therefore, be aimed at positively influencing the Priority and Goals described, in such a way that they serve to advance implementation of the ELD in Andalusia.
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Söderhamn Comprehensive Plan 2023 - 2040 is the politically decided Masterplan for the development of the Municipality of Söderhamn with a view to the year 2040.
It consists partly of a strategy for the spatial and geographical dimension and partly of five sub-strategies that indicate how the municipality should work towards the set goals.
The plan contains a section on land and water use. This specifies how the municipality's land and water areas should be used in a long-term perspective and sets out the direction for the development of the physical environment in Central Söderhamn and in the countryside accordingly. The chapter includes a land and water use map and a map of the green infrastructure.
It also contains and points out the public interests most relevant to the municipality of Söderhamn that physical planning needs to take into account . It can be seen how the municipality identifies as interests, among others, cultural environment conservation, nature conservation and communications.
The policy instrument contains parts for environment and sustainability. Thus, it is important for the Municipality to work with and develop guidelines for biodiversity, where environmental liability could have definitely a place.
The policy instrument is chosen due to its capacity to approach environmental liability from different perspectives, projecting environment but territorial planning and entrepreneurship too, all focal points in the field.
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The "Integrated Strategy for the Development of the Municipality of Čapljina 2017 - 2027" is a strategic document which provides indicators on the state of the environment, including data on air quality, water resources quantity and condition, land condition and quality, state of forest ecosystems and recent biodiversity characteristics. Natural heritage protection and the impact of the local economy on the environment are also covered.
In the sub-chapter "Management of space and environment and the state of municipal greenery", two unsolved problems are highlighted: wastewater treatment and the disposal and removal of solid waste. The importance of solving the aforementioned prominent environmental problems is also recognized through the chapter "Strategic development directions of the Municipality of Čapljina".
In the Strategy, three sectoral development plans are defined: one of them is the "Environmental Protection Plan". In the overview of sectoral goals, the development of a modern waste management system, the rehabilitation of existing landfills, the renovation of Ada city landfill, a recycling yard and a transshipment station built are highlighted.
The knowledge gained through ENLIA with regard to environmental responsibility and other environmental issues will be imported to and implemented through the "Environmental Plan" in the "Integrated Strategy 2017 - 2027".
Funding from the instrument and the possibility to develop a pilot action will be both considered.
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Law on Environment has undergo several amendments since firstly adopted (Official Gazette of Republic of Macedonia No 53/05, 81/05, 24/07, 159/08, 83/09, 48/10, 124/10, 51/11, 123/12, 93/2013, 44/2015, Official Gazette of Republic of North Macedonia No 89/22).
It regulates the rights and responsibility of Republic of North Macedonia, the City of Skopje and municipalities as well as the rights and the responsibilities of legal entities and natural persons, in the provisions of conditions required to ensure protection and improvement of environment for the purposes of exercising the rights of citizens to a healthy environment.
The Law has 23 chapters. First chapters concern general principles on environment.
The Law transposes the SEA Directive in chapter IX, EIA Directive in X and XI, IED in XII and XIV, General Environmental Audit in XIII, SEVESO Directive in chapter XV, Directive on Liabilities for damages caused to the environment in chapter XVI, Establishment of Administration for Environment in XVII, Financing in Environment in XVIII, Sustainable Development in chapter XIX, Supervision in XX, Manner for supervision (...) in chapter XXI, Penalty provisions in XXII and Transitional and final provisions in the chapter XXIII. There are bylaws adopted in order to regulate implementation of the provisions from each chapter.
The Chapter addressed through ENLIA is Chapter XVI "Liabilities for Damages Caused to the Environment" but the Law as a whole could be impacted.
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The Environmental Support Protocol for Structuring Projects (PRAGPS) of Normandy was approved in July 2023.
It is a tool for implementing the principle of environmental responsibility in Normandy leading to the exemption or subject of projects to an environmental assessment, in particular by implementing the impact mitigation hierarchy (first Avoiding, then Reducing and in last resort Offsetting).
It serves to assess potential projects on a case by case basis to limit the risk of environmental impact.
The Protocol requests project developers to analyse the environmental consequences of their intended actions and to compensate for any remaining damage through specific procedures. It is equipped with a relevant tool for analysing impacts and implementing compensation in the Normandy region.
Its implementation involves several meetings with project developers, an analysis of their projects and their impacts and the implementation of an optimal method for avoiding, reducing and compensating for these impacts within the immediate framework of the protocol, and possibly prior to an impact study.
The Environmental Support Protocol is applied by the DREAL upon several hundreds projects every year.
The main aim is to avoid in Normandy any destruction of habitats and species, leading to compensation for any loss of wetland, hedgerow, woodland or natural grassland functionality while enabling the development of renewable energies and economic activity in the region.
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