Environmental Advisory Council (CAMA)

Consejo Asesor de Medio Ambiente

Consejo Asesor de Medio Ambiente (CAMA)
c/o Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Medio Rural y Marino
Plaza San Juan de la Cruz s/n
E-28071 Madrid
Tel. +34 1 597 66 48
Fax: +34 1 597 59 97
cgtajes@mma.es
 
http://www.mma.es/portal/secciones/el_ministerio/organismos/cama (to the Ministry)

Current and Future Activities

Establishment and Mission

Council Members and Staff Members

Working Style

List of Selected Publications 


Current and Future Activities

Present and Future Priority Fields

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Background and Mission

Establishment

The former CAMA was created by means of Royal Decree 224/1994, of 14 February 1994. Ever since, it has undergone different reforms - both legal and organisational - aiming at improving its activities.

The new CAMA is regulated by the Royal Decree 2355/2004, of 23 December 2004, that reshaped its structure and functions and reorganised its composition, competences and work style.

The council also applies to article 19 of the Law 27/2006, of 18 July 2006, regulating the rights of access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters.

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Mission

The CAMA aims at participating and following up the general policies related to environment and sustainable development. The CAMA is the advisory council not only to the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, but also to the the whole Government in any issue related to environment and sustainable development.

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Council Members

The multi-stakeholder CAMA has 17 Council Members. They are appointed for a two year term that is renewed as long as the organisation they belong to agrees on this.

Chairman
Elena Espinoza Mangana
Minister for the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs
Members
NGOs

Liliane Spendeler
Amigos de  la Tierra / Friends of the Earth
Theo Oberhuber  Ecologistas en Acción
Juan López de Uralde  Greenpeace
Alejandro Sánchez-Perez  Sociedad Española de Ornitología / BirdLife
Juan Carlos del Olmo Castillejos   WWF/ADENA
Trade Unions
Dolors Hernández-Navarro  
General Union of Workers (UGT)
Fernando Rodrigo  Workers' Commissions (CC.OO.)
Business Organisations
Juan José Nava Cano 
Spanish Federation of Business Organisations (CEOE)
Rodolfo Gijón Von Kleist  Spanish Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CEPYME)
Farming Associations
Juan Sánchez-Brunete Sánchez-Brunete  
Young Farmers Association (ASAJA)
Andoni García Arriola   Farmers Umbrella Organisation (COAG)
Monsterrat Cortiñas González  Small Farmers Union (UPA)
Diverse Associations
Agustina Laguna Trujillo  
Consumers and Users Council
Belen Ramos Alcalde  Spanish National Federation of Consumers and Housewives (UNAE)
Genaro Amigo Chouchiño National Fishermen Federation
Gabriel Alvarez Fernández   Spanish Local and Provincial Aurthorities Federation (FEMP)

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Staff Members

The Secretariat is composed of one staff member, Concepcion Garcia Tages, who is a civil servant in the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs.

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Work Style

Tasks of the Council

The Tasks of the Council is to:

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 Substructure and Working Groups

At present, the following Working Groups are active in the CAMA:

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Council Meetings

There are no fixed dates for the meetings but the CAMA normally meets once every three months.

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Type of Advice

The CAMA issues reports and makes proposals regarding environmental issues following its own initiative or upon request of the different ministries. This prerogative is also applicable to all regional and local administrations.

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Activities in the EEAC Network

The CAMA joined the EEAC 2007.

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List of Selected Publications

The CAMA does not issue advice reports as such but the Council Members make remarks (oral and sometimes in a written manner) from the different subjects under discussion.

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Last update: 10 February 2008