Ensuring environmental compliance
Subtitle: trends and good practices
Contributors: SourceOECD (Online service)
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Paris]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789264059580
Subjects: Environmental auditing; Environmental monitoring; Environmental protection; Environmental policy; Environmental law
Other titles: Faire respecter les normes environnementales : tendances et bonnes pratiques.
Description: Despite progress in recent years, there is growing evidence that OECD countries are not on track to reach some of their key environmental goals. This report examines the strategies and instruments that governments use to ensure compliance with pollution prevention and control regulations, particularly in the industrial sector. It compares the compliance assurance systems of six OECD countries - Finland, France, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States - as well as those of China and Russia. The report provides policy makers, environmental regulators, and other stakeholders with a comprehensive analysis of the design, management aspects, and the main elements of government compliance and enforcement programs. Focusing on compliance promotion, compliance monitoring, and non-compliance response, it identifies and compares good practices, sets them in context of different countries' regulatory cultures and highlights the key international trends.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD"--T.p. verso.

Also available in French under the title: Faire respecter les normes environnementales : tendances et bonnes pratiques.

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OECD code: 97 2009 03 1 P

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Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Cross-country analysis. Compliance assurance as part of the regulatory framework; title: Management aspects of compliance assurance; title: Compliance promotion; title: Compliance monitoring and assessment; title: Non-compliance response; title: Conclusions; title: pt. 2. Country profiles. Finland; title: France; title: Japan; title: Netherlands; title: United Kingdom; title: United States; title: China; title: Russian Federation.