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xiii According to the revised version of the Implementation Plan of the SAA, the Ministry of Economy should establish a Consumer Protection Agency by October 2003 and the National Consumer Protection Plan six months from the entry into force of Law of Consumer Protection.
xm Prema revidiranoj verziji Plana provedbe SSP-a, Ministarstvo gospodarstva trebalo bi do listopada 2003. osnovati Agenciju za zaštitu potrošača, a šest mjeseci od stupanja na snagu Zakona o zaštiti potrošača i Nacionalni plan za zaštitu potrošača.
xiv Energy Activities Regulation Council is one more body to promote, inter alia, effective dialogue between consumers and regulators.
xiv Vijeće za regulaciju energetskih djelatnosti jošje jedno tijelo koje bi, između ostaloga, trebalo promovirati učinkoviti dijalog između potrošača i regulatora.
xv The project Institutional capacity building in the field of consumer protection financed by the CARDS 2002 resources.
xv Projekt Razvijanje administrativnih kapaciteta u području zaštite potrošača financiran iz programa CARDS u 2002. godini.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION
ZAŠTITA OKOLIŠA: INFORMIRANJE I SUDJELOVANJE JAVNOSTI
Awareness of the need for environmental protection must in Croatia be translated into a clear, overall and long-term concept, particularly because of the process of rapprochement with the European Union (EU), in which it is one of the key topics.
Svijest o potrebi zaštite okoliša u Hrvatskoj mora se pretvoriti u jasan, cjelovit i dugoročan koncept, osobito zbog postupka približavanja Europskoj uniji (EU), u kojoj je to jedna od ključnih tema.
This paper gives a brief review of the existing system of environmental protection in Croatia with emphasis on the institutional framework, the information system, the education system, and public participation.
U tekstu se ukratko prikazuje postojeći sustav zaštite okoliša u Hrvatskoj, s naglaskom na institucionalnom okviru, informacijskom sustavu, sustavu obrazovanja i participacije javnosti.
In the context of access to information and public participation, separate treatment is given to the Aarhus Convention, as well as to attitudes to this convention in Denmark, Estonia and Croatia.
U kontekstu informiranja i sudjelovanja javnosti posebno je obrađena Aarhuška konvencija, te odnos prema toj konvenciji u Danskoj, Estoniji i Hrvatskoj.
It is upon the basis of attitudes to Aarhus, one of the possible models for the democratisation of the process of environmental protection, that the final part of the paper draws certain conclusions and recommendations for political decision-makers and agencies in charge of implementing such decisions on Croatia's path to convergence with the EU.
Upravo na temelju odnosa prema Aarhuškoj konvenciji kao jednome od mogućih načina demokratizacije procesa zaštite okoliša na kraju teksta izvedeni su određeni zaključci i preporuke nositeljima političkih odluka i provoditeljima tih politika na putu približavanja Hrvatske EU.
environmental protection, convergence with European Union standards, information system, environmental awareness, public participation, Aarhus Convention
zaštita okoliša, približavanje standardima Europske unije, informacijski sustav, svijest o okolišu, informiranje javnosti, sudjelovanje javnosti, Aarhuška konvencija
The process of convergence with the EU has led to new challenges in the protection of the environment.
Postupak približavanja EU otvara nove izazove u zaštiti okoliša.
The EU requires detailed regulation of all matters in this area, with numerous statutory, administrative and financial modifications.
EU zahtijeva detaljno uređenje svih pitanja s tog područja, uz brojne zakonske, administrativne i financijske promjene.
At the same time, important changes are required in the organisation of human resources, in harmony with the environmental acquis.
Istodobno su potrebne i značajne promjene u organizaciji ljudskih resursa, a u skladu s europskom pravnom stečevinom na području zaštite okoliša (environmental acquis)'.
i It is necessary the while to pay attention to the numerous Croatian national special features and needs.
Pri tome je potrebno paziti na brojne hrvatske nacionalne posebnosti i potrebe.
This matter needs approaching with extreme seriousness; it has to be carefully planned, organised, financed; and finally, everything that is in the long-term national interest must be accomplished irrespective of the outcome for EU candidacy.
Tom poslu treba prići krajnje ozbiljno te ga pažljivo isplanirati, organizirati, financirati i, konačno, obaviti sve što je u dugoročnom nacionalnom interesu bez obzira na ishod kandidature za EU.
That is, adoption of the environmental protection standards of the EU, never mind what our final status inside the EU, will provide us with a higher level of environmental protection, and the opening of the Croatian market to Europe with respect to trade in goods and services.
Naime, preuzimanje standarda zaštite okoliša EU-a, neovisno o našem konačnom statusu u EU, omogućit će nam višu razinu zaštite okoliša, te otvaranje hrvatskog tržišta europskome u smislu razmjene roba i usluga.
As well as an objective, the paper has a component relating to subjective experience.
Osim objektivne, tekst ima i subjektivnu komponentu.
During work over the last few years for a number of projects for the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning (abbreviated below to Ministry of the Environment), an absence of any high-quality strategic approach to the overall environmental protection policy was noted.
Pri radu na nizu projekata Ministarstva zaštite okoliša i prostornog uređenja (u daljnjem tekstu Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša), posljednjih godina uočen je nedostatak kvalitetnoga strateškog pristupa cjelokupnoj politici zaštite okoliša.
The projects had been on the whole initiated, financed and put through by the relevant European bodies and consultancy firms.
Projekte su uglavnom pokretala, financirala i provodila relevantna europska tijela i konzultantske kuće.
The purpose of the projects was to enable Croatia to become acquainted with the imminent procedure for converging on EU standards, as well as its own advantages and shortcomings in the framework of the process.
Cilj projekata bio je omogućiti Hrvatskoj upoznavanje budućeg postupka približavanja standardima EU-a, te uočavanje svojih prednosti i nedostataka u sklopu tog postupka.
The experience of other countries showed that right in the basic organisational segment there were a number of changes waiting for us so that we should be able to transfer and apply EU standards.
Iskustva drugih zemalja pokazala su da nas već i u osnovnom organizacijskom dijelu očekuje niz promjena kako bismo prenijeli i primijenili standarde EU-a.
Strengthening social capital, that is, educating the public, allowing more access to information and enabling public participation in matters of environmental protection are all just the next step on the way.
Ojačati društveni kapital, odnosno bolje obrazovati i informirati javnost te joj omogućiti sudjelovanje u pitanjima zaštite okoliša samo je idući korak na tom putu.
This step is of course conditioned by changes of an organisational form.
Taj je korak, naravno, uvjetovan promjenama organizacijskog oblika.
Accordingly, environmental protection requires an integrated and multidisciplinary approach.
Prema tome, zaštita okoliša zahtijeva integrirani i multidisciplinarni pristup.
The paper analyses the existing system of environmental protection in Croatia as well as its strengths and weaknesses.
U tekstu se analizira postojeći sustav zaštite okoliša u Hrvatskoj te njegove prednosti i nedostaci.
The emphasis is placed on the social capital that the existing system of environmental protection does have, with an emphasis on the information, education and public participation systems.
Težište se stavlja na društveni kapital koji postojeći sustav zaštite okoliša ima, uz naglasak na sustave informiranja, obrazovanja te sudjelovanja javnosti.
A particular account is given of the Aarhus Convention and the attitudes of Denmark, Estonia and Croatia towards the ratification and implementation of this Convention.
Posebno se prikazuje Aarhuška konvencija i odnos Danske, Estonije i Hrvatske prema ratificiranju i primjeni te konvencije.
THE CURRENT SITUATION IN CROATIA
TRENUTAČNO STANJE U HRVATSKOJ
The EU convergence procedure is in itself highly predictable and in essence comes down to the adoption of standards and procedures that the EU has set up for itself, and that it has mostly already fulfilled, and then additionally imposed as conditions on all the candidates.
Postupak približavanja EU sam je po sebi izrazito predvidiv i u biti se svodi na usvajanje standarda i postupaka koje je EU postavio sam sebi te koje je većinom i sam ispunio, a dodatno ih je postavio kao uvjet svim kandidatima.
The EU has explained the procedures through the mass of cookbooks and guides (Guide to the Approximation of EU Environmental Legislation, SEC (97) 1608) and documents (White Papers, Green Papers) and shown the way it is most advisable to take.
Kroz mnoštvo “kuharica”, vodica (Guide to the Approximation of EU Union Environmental Legislation, SEC (97) 1608) i dokumenata (tzv. Bijela knjiga, Zelena knjiga itd.), EU je objasnio postupak i put kojim je možda najbolje krenutiiii.
111 Experience shows that harmonisation with the policies and standards of environmental protection will be exceptionally complex and demanding for the candidates because of the marked differences in the standards to date, the differences in the legislative and administrative situation, and because of the actual state of affairs in the environment.
Iskustva upućuju na to da će upravo približavanje politici i standardima zaštite okoliša biti izuzetno zahtjevno i složeno za zemlje kandidatkinje zbog izrazitih razlika u dosadašnjim standardima, razlika u zakonodavnom i administrativnom sustavu te u samom stanju u okolišu.
And, of course, convergence will be expensive.
Približavanje će, naravno, biti i skupo.
It has been calculated that the overall price of the basic steps for convergence in matters of environmental protection will come to about 120 billion euros for the ten East European candidates.
Računa se da će ukupna cijena osnovnih koraka približavanja u pitanjima zaštite okoliša za deset istočnoeuropskih zemalja kandidatkinja biti oko 120 milijardi eura.
Slovenia has estimated its costs for converging on EU standards and for accession at 1,300 euros p.c. in the area of environmental protection."
Slovenija je izračunala da će njezin trošak približavanja standardima EU-a i priključenja na području zaštite okoliša iznositi 1 300 eura po stanovnikuiv.
By signing the SAA in October 2001, and then submitting its official candidature for membership in the EU in March 2003, Croatia confirmed its wish and hence the obligation to adopt the existing law of the EU.
Hrvatska je potpisivanjem SSP-a u listopadu 2001, a zatim službenim podnošenjem kandidature za punopravno članstvo u EU u ožujku 2003. potvrdila želju, a time i obvezu usvajanja postojećeg zakonodavstva EU.
There are also specific obligations of Croatia in this domain that derive from the SAA.
Postoje već i konkretne obveze Hrvatske na tom području koje proizlaze iz SSP-a.
The SAA Implementation Plan has already defined detailed measures and certain deadlines by which statutes have to be harmonised; this is the first operational document in the area.
Detaljnije mjere te neki rokovi za donošenje usklađenih zakona već su određeni Planom provedbe SSP-a, koji je prvi operativni dokument u tom području.
For all the sectors, including environmental protection, key areas were determined on which work has to be done in the 2001-2006 period.
U njemu su za sve sektore, pa i za zaštitu okoliša, određena ključna područja na kojima se mora raditi u razdoblju 2001-2006.
Environmental protection will be included into the National EU Integration Programme for the first time for the year 2004,vi a plan being drawn up by the MEI.
Zaštita okoliša prvi će put biti uključena i u nacionalni program integracije u EU za 2004.vi godinu što ga izrađuje Ministarstvo europskih integracija.
This is a document that will address the procedure of harmonising environmental protection regulations in more detail than the Implementation Plan.
Riječ je o dokumentu koji će detaljnije od Plana provedbe SSP-a razraditi postupak usklađivanja propisa o zaštiti okoliša.
However, the Ministry of the Environment has already undertaken a number of steps independently of the measures laid down by the Implementation Plan.
Međutim, Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša već je poduzelo i niz koraka neovisno o propisanim mjerama Plana provedbe SSP-a.
Capacity buildingviii is a frequent common denominator of these projects, which at once suggests that Croatia will have additionally to strengthen and build on existing capacities.
Izgradnja kapaciteta (capacity building)viii čest je zajednički nazivnik projekata, što odmah upućuje na činjenicu da će Hrvatska morati dodatno ojačati i dograditi postojeće kapacitete.
In matters of horizontal legislation the situation was considerably worse.
Riječ je o odredbama koje horizontalno prolaze kroz sva područja zaštite okoliša.
These are provisions that go horizontally across all areas of environmental protection.
Normativno su općenitije i više proceduralne, a sadržajno postavljaju razne metode i mehanizme kojima se načelno pospješuje postupak donošenja odluka.
This is an especially challenging area since the relationship of public and bodies of the government administration is essentially altered, as is the interaction between them.
Riječ je o posebno izazovnom području jer se potpuno mijenja odnos javnosti i tijela državne uprave te njihova interakcija.
Experience in an attempt to ratify one such international instrument, the Aarhus Convention, is detailed below.
Iskustva s pokušajem ratifikacije jednoga takvog međunarodnog instrumenta Aarhuške konvencije - detaljnije se objašnjavaju u kasnijem tekstu.
Meanwhile, we would like to emphasise the essential role to be played by social capital in the development of society and the improvement of any policy whatever, particularly environmental protection policy, the basis of which is in the concept of sustainable development.
Zelimo naglasiti bitnu ulogu društvenog kapitala u razvoju društva i poboljšanju svake politike, a osobito politike zaštite okoliša koja svoje temelje nalazi u konceptu održivog razvoja.
It is this principle that is the basis for the entire environmental protection policy, and members of the public have to be aware of its importance and existence, they have to apply it and live with it.
Upravo je to načelo osnova cjelokupne politike zaštite okoliša, a građani moraju biti svjesni njegova postojanja i značaja, primjenjivati ga i živjeti s njim.
It is the existence of this kind of social capital that is a crucial premise for any successful environmental protection policy.
Postojanje takvog društvenog kapitala nužna je pretpostavka uspješne politike zaštite okoliša.
Most projects carried out so far have shown that there is still a good deal of lack of harmonisation in the work of the competent bodies, not only at the organisational but also at the conceptual level, which is often a stumbling block in the implementation of any project, programme or piece of legislation.
Većina do sada provedenih projekata pokazala je da još uvijek postoji prilična neusklađenost u radu nadležnih tijela, i to ne samo na organizacijskoj, već i na konceptualnoj razini, što je čest kamen spoticanja pri provedbi bilo kojeg projekta, programa ili zakonskog propisa.
Often there is no record of which project has been carried out, and how it has been carried out, even within a single ministry, and certainly not among a number of them.
Cesto ne postoji evidencija o tome koji se sve projekti provode i kako, čak ni unutar jednog ministarstva, a kamoli među više njih.
In addition, during the actual implementation of projects, perhaps excessive importance is too often attached to the relevant experience of neighbouring countries, their statutory approaches and strategies.
I pri samoj izvedbi projekata često se možda prevelik značaj daje relevantnim iskustvima susjednih zemalja, njihovim zakonskim rješenjima i strategijama.
At the same time, too little is done to work out the necessary background studies concerning the specific features of Croatian problems in a given area.
Istodobno se izrađuje premalo potrebnih podloga i studija o specifičnostima hrvatskih problema na određenom području.
Most often extensive analyses of the pertinent documents of other countries that have trodden the same path are performed without any questioning of just how their experience is really able to assist us.
Najčešće se pripremaju opsežne analize relevantnih dokumenata drugih zemalja koje su prošle taj put, pri čemu se ne pita koliko nam njihova iskustva zaista mogu pomoći.
When we look over documents from Slovenia, the Czech Republic or Slovakia, one should ask how much this experience can, apart from methodologically, really assist us, in, for example, the matter of protecting the Adriatic coast, the sea and the islands, the protection of the karst area, the problems of mine-fields in forests or abandoned farmland, one of the many consequences of the recent war.
Osvrćući se na dokumente Slovenije, Češke ili Slovačke, trebali bismo se zapitati koliko nam ta iskustva - osim metodološki - mogu pomoći npr. u pitanju zaštite jadranske obale, mora i otoka, zaštite krškog područja, problematici miniranih šuma ili zapuštenih poljoprivrednih zemljišta kao nekih od brojnih posljedica prošlog rata.
There is an exceptionally important lack of any appropriate information system to give us an insight into the realistic state of affairs in the field.
Pritom je izuzetna teškoća nedostatak primjerenoga informacijskog sustava koji bi omogućio uvid u stvarno stanje na našem terenu.
And this in turn is a major constraint on our ability to think more with our own heads, preferring, instead, to waste time looking over and even copying out examples of strategies and documents from other countries.
Time je znatno ograničena mogućnost da više mislimo svojom glavom a manje gubimo vrijeme na upoznavanje, pa čak i prepisivanje primjera strategija i dokumenata drugih zemalja.
It seems, nevertheless, to be becoming clear that Croatia will have to understand its own procedure of adjustment to EU standards and its own procedure of vertical and horizontal harmonisation.
Čini se da ipak postaje jasno kako Hrvatska mora shvatiti svoj postupak približavanja standardima EU-a te svoj postupak vertikalnoga i horizontalnog usklađivanja.
This highlighted the urgent need for a strategic approach, because the National Strategy for Environmental Protection (drawn up by the Strategic Development Office) together with the National Action Plan for the Environment (drawn up by the Ministry of the Environment with assistance from the WB) are defective.
Time je istaknuta hitnost strateškog pristupa jer već donesena Nacionalna strategija zaštite okoliša (2002) (sastavio Ured za strategiju razvitka), zajedno s Nacionalnim planom djelovanja za okoliš (2002) (sastavilo Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša uz asistenciju Svjetske banke), nisu dostatni.
These documents actually constantly refer to the priority of adjusting Croatian regulations to the relevant EU laws and the necessity of adopting a strategic document for the whole procedure of harmonising regulations, as was the case in the other candidates.
Štoviše, ti dokumenti stalno upućuju na potrebu usklađivanja hrvatskih propisa s relevantnim propisima EU-a te na nužnost usvajanja strateškog dokumenta za cjelokupni postupak usklađivanja propisa, što je provedeno i u ostalim zemljama kandidatkinjama.
Such a document is necessary so that it will no longer be necessary to waste time and energy through precipitate, patchy and uncoordinated attempts to adjust Croatian regulations via numbers of different projects in different bodies of the government administration.
Takav je dokument potreban kako se više ne bi nepotrebno gubilo vrijeme i energija u stihijskim i nekoordiniranim pokušajima usklađivanja hrvatskih propisa putem raznih projekata u brojnim tijelima državne uprave.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN CROATIA
ZAŠTITA OKOLIŠA U HRVATSKOJ
The institutional framework
Institucionalni okvir
Since environmental protection is very complex, for it impinges on almost all sectors (water, forest, farming, tourism, energy, health), the Ministry of the Environment alone cannot cover all the problems, rather has to assign competence for their solution among the various governmental departments.
Budući da je zaštita okoliša vrlo složena jer zadire u gotovo sve sektore (vode, šume, poljoprivredu, turizam, energiju, ljudsko zdravlje), Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša ne može pokriti sve probleme, već se nadležnosti za njihovo rješavanje dodjeljuju raznim tijelima državne uprave.
The coordination of all the bodies and a clear delimitation of their activities within given competences will be one of the greatest challenges in the achievement of an effective institutional organisation for environmental protection, at national, regional and local levels.
Koordinacija svih nadležnih tijela i jasno razgraničavanje njihovih djelatnosti unutar određenih nadležnosti bit će jedan od najvećih izazova u postizanju učinkovitoga institucionalnog ustroja zaštite okoliša, kako na nacionalnoj, tako i na regionalnoj i lokalnoj razini.
The legislative arm is in Parliament, which has four committees - for physical planning and environmental protection; farming; marine affairs, transport and communications; and tourism.
U sustavu zakonodavne vlasti nadležan je Sabor s četiri odbora: (1) za prostorno uređenje i zaštitu okoliša, (2) za poljodjelstvo, (3) za pomorstvo, promet i veze te (4) za turizam.
In the executive arm, the following are the competent authorities: the Ministry of the Environment, as well as other relevant ministries; national administrative organisations (the Water Administration, the Weather Bureau and the Hydrographic Institute); and the county offices dealing with physical planning and environmental protection, communal and housing affairs and construction,x as well as with control by the government inspectorate.
U sustavu izvršne vlasti nadležni su (1) Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša, ali i ostala relevantna ministarstva, (2) državne upravne institucije (Državna uprava za vode, Državni hidrometeorološki zavod i Državni hidrografski institut) te (3) županijski uredi koji se bave prostornim uređenjem i zaštitom okoliša, stambeno-komunalnim poslovima i graditeljstvom", te inspekcijskim nadzorom.
There are also the separate city offices of the country offices.
Usto djeluju i gradske ispostave županijskih ureda.
The Ministry of the Environment is competent for the implementation of all laws, the adoption of regulations and byelaws, all matters of expertise and administration and so on in general environmental protection policy, that is, the protection of the air, waste management and nature conservation.
Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša nadležno je za sve provedbe zakona, donošenje podzakonskih propisa te za sve stručne, upravne i druge poslove u općoj politici zaštite okoliša, odnosno zaštite zraka, gospodarenja otpadom i zaštite prirode.
The Ministry shares inspection matters to do with environmental protection with the construction and physical planning administrations.
Inspekcijske poslove zaštite okoliša Ministarstvo dijeli s upravama za graditeljstvo i prostorno uređenje.
This kind of institutional approach is not always very adroit from an administrative point of view.
Takva institucionalna rješenja nisu baš najspretnija u administrativnom smislu.
The management of water, for example, is beyond the jurisdiction of the Environment Ministry, which is often a difficulty when problems are being solved or future projects being planned that touch on the protection of water.
Gospodarenje vodama, na primjer, izvan je nadležnosti Ministarstva zaštite okoliša, što često stvara teškoće pri rješavanju problema ili planiranju budućih projekata koji se odnose i na zaštitu voda.