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Latvia and Environmental Implementation Review (EIR)

Paul Speight Head of Unit, Environmental Enforcement, DG Environment, European Commission 13 December 2017

Introduction

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EIR

• EU environmental policy and legislation

bring many benefits

• Weak implementation generates high

societal, economic and environmental costs & uneven playing field for businesses

• The EIR is a tool to improve
• implementation. It complements (not

replaces) other efforts such as compliance assurance and infringements

Why a new tool?

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The EIR is a two-yearly cycle of analysis, dialogue and concrete collaboration to boost environmental implementation

EIR The EIR cycle

Analysis Dialogue Collaboration

28 Country reports with main challenges,

• pportunities &

successes Communication: Synthesis report on common trends and challenges Annex with all suggested actions Inclusive, cross- sectoral, multi-level country dialogues Political exchanges in the Council Concrete action: e.g. guidance; (administrative) reforms; Peer 2 Peer tool for sharing experiences & expertise; bilateral projects; political conclusions, etc.

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Objective: support spreading good practice which can be adapted to the specific situations in different Member States.

• Quality-controlled
• Light
• Flexible
• Rapid
• Targeted

Expert missions, study visits and workshops can be financed. All information, registration links and the P2P leaflet in 23 languages are available

• n the

TAIEX-EIR P2P webpage: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eir/p2p/index_en.htm

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Main challenges…

• Improving waste management,

particularly increasing recycling, rolling-out separate collection and reducing landfilling;

• Reducing resource intensity which would

lessen the exposure of Latvian businesses to rising resource costs. Latvia

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Suggested action

• Introduce and gradually increase landfill taxes to phase-out landfilling of

recyclable and recoverable waste. Use the revenues to support the separate collection and alternative infrastructure in conjunction with a better allocation of the cohesion policy funds to the first steps of waste

• hierarchy. Avoid building excessive infrastructure for the treatment of

residual waste.

• Focus on implementation of the effective separate collection scheme to

increase recycling rates. Once this is in place consider introducing PAYT (Pay As You Throw) schemes.

Suggestions

Nature

Latvia must still:

• make effort to complete the SAC designation process,
• put in place clearly defined conservation objectives

and the necessary conservation measures for the sites and

• provide adequate resources for their implementation.

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… and main opportunities

• Use of the opportunities provided by EIB loans

and EFSI support to further promote environmental projects;

• Use of market based instruments to encourage

resource efficiency, particularly in waste and water resources management;

• High potential for Green Infrastructure

development in order to address flood and erosion risks, while improving the connectivity of natural areas.

Latvia

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Latvia Points of excellence

Latvia is a leader on environmental implementation with a good compliance record, having a low number of complaints and infringements.

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DG ENV - CHAP (557), EU Pilot (240) and NIF (356) cases per MS on 30/11/2017

Thank you for your attention

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EIR website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eir/index_en.htm Contact: ENV-EIR@ec.europa.eu