ECRAN ECENA 3rd Annual Meeting
Date: 17.03.2016
Place: Vienna, Austria
Organizer: ECRAN Secretariat
The work of ECENA is dealing with both implementation and enforcement of the EU acquis. For this
purpose various stakeholders are to be involved. In the defined activities therefore not only
environmental inspectors were participating but depending on the subject the participants also
included policy makers, law drafters, permit writers, customs, police and representatives of the NGO
community.
To keep the link with practices in the field the approach has been continued to combine the defined
activities with site visits and case exercises. The most valuable contribution was contacting and
organising site visits. Implementation in practice is not only supported by the site visits and exercises
during these visits, but also in assisting the implementation of inspection management tools on a
national scale (ref. IRAM). In addition ECRAN is also supporting the whole chain of enforcement i.e.
also activities for environmental judges and prosecutors, by facilitating participation in events of
ENPE and EUFJE. Sharing of specific experience from EU member countries, relatively new EU
member countries and sharing experience among accession countries is another valuable
component of the programme which has been appreciated very much.
At the third Annual Meeting progress made since the second ECRAN ECENA Working group meeting
will be evaluated, and possible improvements and plan for 2016 will be discussed. The results of the
meeting will be used as input for the ECENA activities under the ECRAN horizontal Component for
which the framework was already agreed during the first and second Annual ECENA Meeting. The
following issues will be addressed:
- Appropriateness of planned actions under the ECRAN ECENA Component and need for improvements and/or adjustments;
- Maximising benefits and opportunities to be generated though the ECRAN/ECENA Component: follow up actions and coordination with other initiatives;
- Agreement on proposed actions in the ECRAN/ECENA 2016 Work plan;
- Potential post 2016 activities.
