Government Council for Sustainable Development (RVUR)

Rada vlády pro udržitelný rozvoj

Government Council for Sustainable Development
c/o Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic
Vršovická 65
100 10 Praha 10
Tel. + 420 267 122 221
Fax +  420 267 310 200
http://www.mzp.cz/cz/udrzitelny_rozvoj (in Czech) http://www.mzp.cz/en/sustainable_development (in English)
http://www.mzp.cz/en/ (about the ministry in English)
rvur@mzp.cz

Current and Future Activities

Establishment and Mission

Council Members and Staff Members

Working Style

List of Selected Publications 


Current and Future Activities

Present Priority Fields (2010)

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Future Priority Fields (2011 and forward)

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Background and Mission

Establishment

The Government Council for Sustainable Development of the Czech Republic (RVUR) was established in July 2003 by a Resolution of the Czech Government. The Council is a standing advisory, initiating and co-ordinating body of the Government of the Czech Republic in the field of sustainable development and strategic management.

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Mission

The RVUR shall within the scope of its activities, initiate, draft, coordinate, monitor, review, assess and support strategic dimensions in the management of the state. It shall propose measures to be taken with a view to harmonise long-term intents and goals with medium-term and short-term goals and programmes in compliance with the principles of sustainable development. It shall monitor and assess global phenomena and developmental opportunities, and propose timely and adequate response by the state to them. The Council shall coordinate and monitor the implementation of the principles of sustainable development while achieving a dynamic balance between its economic, social and environmental components.

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Council members

The RVUR  is composed of governmental members that are proposed by the relevant Ministers, the Chairmen of the two Parliamentary Chambers, the Council of Governors (composed of the 14 Governors of the different regional offices) and the Association of Cities and Municipalities and appointed by the Executive Vice-Chairman. The non-governmental council members are nominated by the Vice-Chairmen of the Council and the Executive Vice-Chairman.
27 Council Members serve a 4-year term, 11 of them have been re-appointed after the first term ended.

Members of The Government Council for Sustainable Development

as of 1 January 2010

Chair:
Jan Fischer

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Executive Vice-Chair

Jan Dusík

Minister of Environment

Vice-Chairs

Petr Šimerka

Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

Vladimír Tošovský

Minister of Industry and Trade

Members 

Jiří Urban

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Agriculture

Martin Plachý

First Deputy Minister, Ministry for Regional Development

Milan Sedláček

Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Pavel Rittenauer

Director of Department, Ministry of Transport

Štěpánka Steinbachová

Director of Department, Ministry of Interior

Tomáš Zídek

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Finance

Jindřich Kitzberger

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Michael Vít

Chief Public Health Officer

Regional Government, Municipalities

 

Jirí Zimola

South Bohemia Governor

Roman Onderka

Mayor of the Town Brno

Non-governmental members

Jaroslav Šulc 

Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions

Václav Hlaváček

Member, Board of Directors, Czech Agrarian Chamber

Jiří Vopravil

Czech Statistical Office

Miroslava Kopicová

Director, National Training Fund 

Alena Steflova

Director, WHO CR Office

Business

Josef Zbořil

Member, Board of Directors, Confederation of Industry and Transport of the CR  

NGOs

Libor Ambrozek

President, Czech Union of Nature Conservationists 

Vojtěch Kotecký

Friends of the Earth, Czech Republic 

Petr Švec

Director of Healthy Cities, Towns and Regions of the Czech Republic  

Science and Government

  

Bedřich Moldan

Senator, Director of the Charles University Environment Centre

Science

Zuzana Drhová

Charles University Social and Economic Strategies Centre 

Ivan Rynda Charles University Environment Centre 

Radim Šrám

Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

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Staff members

Ms. Jaroslava Hlaváčková, Secretary to the Council.

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Work Style

Tasks of the Council

Strategic focuses for the council are:

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Type of Advice

The Council adopts resolutions related to issues being negotiated, including proposed opinions and recommendations, for the Czech Government or other central administration bodies based either on its own initiative or on the governmental request.

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Substructure and Working Groups

The Council has two committees (Committee for the Strategy, Committee for Communication) and seven working groups (WG for indicators, WG for sustainable consumption and production, WG for sustainable development of regions, municipalities and spatial planning, WG for the coordination of preparatory work for the meetings of the UN CSD, WG for the OECD sustainable development project, WG for local Agenda 21 and WG for Education on Sustainable Development).

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Council Meetings

The Council’s meetings shall take place on a regular basis according to the work plan to be adopted by the Council at its first meeting in each calendar year, at least once every 3 (three) months. In 2010, the first meeting is scheduled for: 25 March.

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List of Selected Publications

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