Czech Government Council on Sustainable Development (RVUR)
Rada vlády pro udržitelný rozvoj
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Cezch Government Council on Sustainable Development c/o Ministry for Environment of the Czech Republic Vršovická 65 100 10 Praha 10 Tel. + 420 267 122 221 Fax + 420 267 310 200 http://www.env.cz/AIS/web.nsf/pages/Rada_vlady_pro_UR (in Czech) |
Establishment and Mission
Council Members and Staff Members
Current and Future Activities
Present Priority Fields
- The revision of the Czech Republic Strategy for Sustainable Development is expected to be completed by the end of November 2007;
- Monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the Czech Republic Strategy for Sustainable Development through progress reports;
- Initiation of a strategic basis for sustainable development;
- Co-ordination of departmental conceptions of strategic development;
- Promotion of public discussions related to sustainable development;
- Promoting the implementation of local Agenda 21;
- 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production with the elaboration of specific programmes and action plans;
- Co-ordination of activities of the Czech Republic regarding
Sustainable Development, in relation
to the EU, the UN Commission for
Sustainable Development and to the OECD.
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Future Priority Fields
- Identifying crucial unsustainable trends and recommending
actions to reverse them;
- Assessing and proposing necessary measures to ensure
interrelation and cohesion between economic, social and environmental
strategies, concepts and policies and other sectoral or territorial
programming documents, including legislative measures, to be considered
by the Government;
- Promoting the implementation of the principles of
sustainable development by the individual ministries and territorial
self-governing units;
- Proposing steps to be taken towards the effective
implementation of the
- Increasing public awareness.
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Background and Mission
Establishment
The Czech Government Council for Sustainable Development (hereinafter referred to as the “Council”) 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 Council 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.
Council Members serve for a 4-year term that will end in December 2007 and can
be re-appointed.
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Government
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Chairman |
Prime Minister of the Czech
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Executive Vice-Chairman |
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Martin Bursík |
Minister of Environment |
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Vice-Chairmen |
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Petr Nečas |
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs |
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Martin Říman |
Minister of Industry and Trade |
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Members |
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Ivo Hlaváč |
First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Agriculture |
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First Deputy Minister, Ministry for Regional Development |
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David Gladiš |
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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Petr Šlegr |
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Transport |
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Vladimír Zeman |
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Home Affairs |
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Tomáš Zídek |
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Finance |
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Tomáš Frank |
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports |
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Michael Vít |
Chief Environmental Health Officer |
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Local
Government |
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Jan Zahradník |
South Bohemia Governor |
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Roman Onderka |
Mayor of the town Brno |
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Non-governmental
members |
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Martin Fassmann |
Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions |
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Václav Hlaváček |
Vice-President of the Czech Agrarian Chamber |
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Věra Kameníčková |
Czech Statistical Office |
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Miroslava Kopicová |
National Training Fund |
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Alena Steflova |
Director, WHO Czech Republic Office |
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Business |
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Josef Zbořil |
Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech
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NGOs |
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Libor Ambrozek |
President, Czech |
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Vojtěch Kotecký |
Friends of the Earth, Czech
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Petr Švec |
Director of Healthy Cities, Towns and Regions of the Czech
Republic
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Science |
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Bedřich Moldan |
Senator, Director of the Charles University Environment Centre |
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Ivan Rynda |
Charles
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Radim Šrám |
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Staff members
Ms Jaroslava Hlaváčková, Secretary to the Council.
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Work Style
Tasks of the Council
- Co-ordination and commission of work related to the drafting of an umbrella strategic document, the National Sustainable Development Strategy of the Czech Republic and its progress reports;
- Proposing measures to harmonise other related overall or partial strategies, concepts and policies, including indicators for monitoring their implementation;
- Reviewing implementation of the Strategy and ensuring its update;
- Initiating, coordinating and providing for co-operation between the central state administration, the Parliament, principal interest groups and other legal entities and individuals involved in the field of sustainable development;
- Promotion of public discussions (e.g. regional round-tables, national forum).
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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 the coordination of regional strategies, 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 the National Strategy for Education on Sustainable Development).
The setting up of a new Working Group on Material Flow is currently under discussion.
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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 2007, the meetings are scheduled for: 29 January, 10 May, 24 September and 26 November.
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List of
Selected Publications- Second Progress Report to the Czech Republic Sustainable Development Strategy, (March 2007);
- First Progress Report to the Czech Republic Sustainable Development Strategy, (March 2006);
- 2004 Annual Report of the Government Council for Sustainable Development, (April 2005);
- Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Czech Republic, (June 2005);
- The Czech Republic Strategy for Sustainable Development, (December 2004).
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Last updated: 30 March 2007