Compliance and enforcement mechanisms

Each entities’ law on environmental protection introduced significant new instruments for environmental protection and for integrating environmental concerns in economic sectors, namely environmental permits and details for the preparation of environmental impact assessments (EIAs). Furthermore, since 2006 all entity level ministry inspectorates (including non-environmental ones) have been subordinated to a single entity-level administration for inspection activities. This consolidation of inspection activities has been accompanied by an institutional separation of inspection and permit-issuing processes, an important condition of EU directives, which was introduced at all relevant governmental/administrative levels in the country, thus improving the quality and integrity of compliance mechanisms.

Related Subject(s): Environment and Climate Change

Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina