Montenegro EU Accession Negotiating Team for Chapter 27 Environment
The Montenegro EU Accession Negotiating Team for Chapter 27 Environment discussed regulations, legislative frameworks, and institutional frameworks related to environment and climate change. Topics included the EU Timber Regulation, national laws on forests and inspection supervision, as well as the transposition of directives. The institutional framework involved various government bodies overseeing forestry and environmental protection in Montenegro.
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M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Working Group for Chapter 27 Environment Bilateral screening: Chapter 27 PRESENTATION OF MONTENEGRO Brussels, 18-22 March 2013
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change REGULATION (EU) No 995/2010 of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market (EU Timber Regulation) Pavle Me edovi Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Forest Administration pavlemedjedovic@yahoo.com M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change LEGLISATIVE FRAMEWORK Law on Forests ( Official Gazette of Montenegro no. 74/10) Law on Inspection Supervision ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", no. 39/03 and "Official Gazette of Montenegro", no. 76/09) Criminal Code ( Official Gazette of MNE , no. 40/2008, 25/2010 and 32/2011) Law on Customs Administration ("Official Gazette of MNE , no. 7/02 and 29/05) Law on Nature Protection ("Off. Gazette of MNE , no. 51/08) National Action Plan for the Suppression of illegal forestry activities Draft national FSC standards M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change The provisions of the Directive is at very early stage of transposition. Parts that are harmonized with the Directive refer on the Article 56 in the Law on Forests ( Off. Gazette of MNE no. 74/10) according to which: with wood products can be traded only on the basis of certificates of origin issued by the user of the forests owned by the state or the owner of the privately owned forests. M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK Forest Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Administration Directorate for Inspection Affairs Forestry Inspection Goverment of Montenegro Ministry of Justice Prosecution Police Department Ministry of Interior Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism PE National Parks of Montenegro M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change Implementation Competent authority A competent authority for the FLEGT Regulation has not been designated as required by Article 7, paragraph 1 of the Regulation The new Law on Forests partly includes the basic objectives and mechanisms of this Regulation, which entered into force in December 2010. In fact, come into force only some provisions of Regulation. Forest Administration gives the forests for use by concession and the concessionaire performs control and issued certificate for origin of wood products. M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change National Action Plan (NAP) The Government of Montenegro adopted National Action Plan (NAP) to combat illegal activities in the forestry. So far, only obligations arising from the Directive which are also related to implementation of the NAP are implemented, for example: - The term "illegal activities in forest exploitation" (illegal logging), we used the official definition of the World Bank (WB) - Under monitoring of NAP for combating illegal activities in the forestry, it s included the timely introduction of the Coordination team with the facts, data and information across team members, analyzing and proposing adequate measures. The goal of the NAP is to combat illegal activities in the forestry, including forest harvesting, capturing forest land illegally, the deliberate planting of forest fires, the prevention of proving the destruction of boundary lines between state and private forest, the corruption in the forestry sector, with special emphasis on illegal activities in forest exploitation and trade in illegally harvested timber. M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change Implementation Competent authority Law on Forest and regulations are in line with the concerns of penalties: - Pursuant to the Article 89, item 11 of the Law on forests any person who distributes wood products without issued certificates of origin shall be punished for a misdemeanor. M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change Ongoing projects and Opportunities Done in the framework of the methodology FODEMO project and FLEG SB project to determine the illegal logging Implementation of a uniform methodology for determining the volume of illegal logging All data submitted applications are available on the website of the Forest www.upravazasume.me The establishment of the portal will update all illegal activities on forests and publish a final judgment by region Define areas that are particularly vulnerable when it comes to illegal logging and other illegal activities List export of unprocessed wood products M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change Administrative/Institutional capacity State administration Current state Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development 2 Ministry of Sustainable development and Tourism Forest Administration Forestry Inspection 11 PE National Parks of Montenegro 39 M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union O Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 27: Environment CURRENT AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES Prevention of illegal cross-border activities in the field of forestry and coordination of border services Forest information systems and monitoring system logs (bar codes) Define areas that are particularly vulnerable when it comes to illegal logging and other illegal activities Organise workshops, trainings, seminars, educations Strategies to the development of forests and forestry Other activities M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 27: Environment FINANCING State Budget IPA project (value of the project 1 million euros) FODEMO project (The project is being implemented under a separate agreement between the Government of Montenegro and the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Value of the project 9 million euros) M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 27: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
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