National Council on the Environment (OKT)
Országos Környezetvédelmi Tanács
Positions, resolutions and advice
2000
Discussing the document of the Organisation for Economic Co–operation and Development (OECD) "Hungary’s environmental performance review – conclusions and recommendations" published in 1999 November
Experience from the utilisation of the Environmental Fund Earmarked Subsidy in 1999 and its draft on invitation for tender for 2000
2000 budget of NEC
Briefing on the current situation of the EU integration process
Briefing on government submission, Hungary’s SAPARD plan
Briefing by the minister for environment on his agreement with the president of the Academy affecting NEC and its tasks and on the planned/probable reorganisation of the institutions of environment protection and nature conservation, including the organisation of the Nature Conservation World Heritage Program
Election of the next chairman of the National Environmental Council
Situation of monitoring on river Tisza
Report for the Government on carrying out the legal harmonisation program compared to schedule
Széchenyi Plan – the National Development Strategy
Financial and economic issues of starting the National Agro–Environmental Program in 2001
National Regional Development Plan
Hungary’s Environmental Vision II (project of the Council)
1999
Medium–term strategy of environmental protection (Submission for the Economic Cabinet on the strategy of environmental and nature conservation issues at the integration talks between Hungary and the European Union)
Issues of Agro–environment protection relating to EU accession
Medium–term strategy of water management and transport in view of EU integration
Government submission on some issues relating to river Dráva
Report of the Network of Environmental Advisory Offices on the situation of the network
Concept of the act on environmental load charges
Medium–term energy strategy of Hungary (business model of energetics)
Briefing on the designation of nature conservation areas
Evaluation of the situation and work of the Council
Strategic issues of agriculture, rural development and regional policy
Conceptual opinion about the bill on waste management
Concept of the bill on chemical safety
Proposal for the strategy increasing energy–saving and energy efficiency and the program promoting realisation
Bill on waste management
Annual conference of European Councils on the Environment
Environmental load charge
Action plan of the National Environmental Program for 2000
On the amendment of act LIII of 1995 on the General Rules of Environmental Protection
Current situation of Upper–Danube, current status of proposals for solution
Overview of the annual report by the European Commission on Hungary
Briefing about environmental chapter XVI of the 2000 Budget Bill
Hungary’s environment performance review by OECD
1998
Draft of the 1998 invitation for tenders of Central Environmental Fund (CEF)
Standpoint of NEC regarding the execution of the judgement of the International Court in the Hague by the Hungarian government
Concept of the regulation on environment load charges
Initiation of environmental non–governmental organisations for NEC to institute constitutional court proceedings because of the government commissioner’s action regarding the execution of the Hague judgement
Draft concept regarding the property management of state–owned nature conservation areas and protected natural values
Election of the new chairman of the Council
Briefing by the government commissioner on the expropriation of nature conservation areas and areas earmarked for conservation
Briefing on public administration suits concerning the environment
Topics, schedule of the European Union accession talks, authorisation of the Hungarian delegation
Briefing on the situation of environmental statistics in Hungary
International convention on access to environmental information, public participation in decision–making and access to justice
Briefing by the minister for environment on the environment and nature conservation aspects of the government program
Briefing on the operation and development plans of the CEF
The Ministry for Environment’s chapter of the 1999 budget bill
Bill on environmental product charges and amendment of Act LVI of 1995 on the environmental product charges of some products
Briefing on preparation for the EU accession talks in the fields of environmental protection and nature conservation
Proposal for the program of the forum series to be organised by NEC
Preliminary ideas to reorganise the operation of CEF
Improving and revision of the National Environmental Program – developing the preliminary position of NEC
1997
Tender notice of the Central Environmental Protection Fund in 1997;
Basic principles of the National Agriculture Program;
Recommendations to the National Agriculture Program by the National Council on the Environment;
Act on GMOs;
Act on mining;
The participation of Hungary in the work of the UN EEC Trans–European Railway project between 1997 and 2000, and on the further operation of the Central Project Office in Budapest;
Action Program on the implementation of the Hungarian transport policy;
Act on animal protection;
Proposals for the Act of 1998 on the national budget;
Decrees on nuclear energy;
Decree on the Conception of National Regional Development Program;
Decree on the protection, keeping, exhibition and utilization of protected animal species;
The monetary resources of environmental protection in the Act of 1998 on the national budget;
Action Plan of the National Environmental Protection Program for 1998.
A number of legal drafts and important questions were put on the agenda of the Council during these two years. The Council did not deliver a formal, official position on these issues, nevertheless by means of comments and recommendations communicated to the drafters it contributed to the finalisation of these proposals. These were:
Report on the budgetary conditions of the Central Environmental Protection Fund;
The ongoing environmental protection preparatory measures for the accession to the European Union (the chairman’s report);
The work of the Committee on Sustainable Development (personal report by the committee’s Secretary General)
Proposal of the Act on health–care;
Ministerial decision on the management rules and the use of the Central Environmental Protection Fund;
The audited budget of the Central Environmental Protection Fund, 1996;
Preparations for the accession to the EU in the field of waste management, air quality protection, water quality protection, nature protection and agri–environmental protection (reports by the officials of the concerned ministries)
Conception of the framework Act on waste management;
Report on the strategy of the accession to the EU by the Environment Committee of the Integration Strategic Task Force;
The role of the electronic media in the promotion of environmental awareness (study).
1996
Positions
on the chapter "Environment" of the country status report questionnaire of the European Commission;
on clean Hungary;
on amendment guidelines for the Constitution Act;
on the National Environmental Protection Program;
on the National Environmental Health Action Program;
on the Act on nuclear energy;
on the conditions and tasks of water management on plains;
on the development of power plant system;
on the environmental implications of the national budget of 1997;
on the allocation guidelines and budget of the Central Environmental Protection Fund in 1997;
on the allocation of the Central Environmental Protection Fund for public interest purposes in 1997, and on the decree on financing environmental public interest activities;
on the Act of 1994 on arable land, and on the guidelines of agricultural subsidies in 1997;
on the operational requirements of water public utilities;
on the Act on fishery;
on the environmental implications of the development plan of transport;
on the limitation of the transport of heavy trucks.
The Council has also touched upon:
drafts on natural protection including various proposals on the protection of nature, forests, wildlife, on wildlife management and hunting;
institutional re–organisation of the regional work of the MERP;
sewage problems of the Balaton region;
proposals on air quality protection;
interpretation of environmental crimes in the Criminal Code.
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