Environmental Advisory Council (CAMA)
Consejo Asesor de Medio Ambiente
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Consejo Asesor de Medio Ambiente (CAMA)
c/o Ministerio de Medio Ambiente
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
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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
- Water policy;
- Prevention of forest fires;
- Marine Biodiversity;
- Law on Natural Patrimony;
- Strategic Instruments for Nature Conservation;
- Strategic Plan of Transport and Infrastructures;
- Waste Policy;
- Environmental Information;
- Strategic Environmental Assessment;
- Air quality;
- Integrated Management in Coastal Zones.
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Background and Mission
Establishment
The former CAMA was created by means of Royal Decree 224/1994, of 14
February. 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, that
reshaped its structure and functions and reorganised its composition,
competences and work style.
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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 Environment (MoE) but also to the others
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
Cristina
Narbona Ruiz
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Minister for Environment |
Members
NGOs
Liliane
Spendeler
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Amigos
de
la Tierra
/ Friends of the Earth
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| Theo
Oberhuber
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Ecologistas
en Acción
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| Juan
López de Uralde
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Greenpeace
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| Alejandro
Sánchez-Perez
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Sociedad
Española de Ornitología / BirdLife
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| Juan
Carlos del Olmo Castillejos
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WWF/ADENA
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Trade
Unions
Dolors
Hernández-Navarro
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General
Union of Workers (UGT)
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| Joaquín
Nieto Sainz
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Workers'
Commissions (CC.OO.)
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Business
Organisations
Juan José Nava Cano
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Spanish
Federation of Business Organisations (CEOE)
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| Rodolfo
Gijón Von Kleist
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Spanish
Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CEPYME)
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Farming
Associations
Juan
Sánchez-Brunete Sánchez-Brunete
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Young
Farmers Association (ASAJA)
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| Andoni
García Arriola
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Farmers
Umbrella Organisation (COAG)
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| Monsterrat
Cortiñas González
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Small
Farmers Union (UPA)
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Diverse
Associations
Agustina
Laguna Trujillo
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Consumers
and Users Council
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| Belen
Núñez Rodríguez
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Spanish
National Federation of Consumers and Housewives (UNAE)
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| Juan
Cervantes Flores
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National
Fishermen Federation
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| Gabriel
Alvarez Fernández
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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.
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Work Style
Tasks of the Council
- Issue reports on Law and Royal Decree projects that might have an impact
on the environment;
- Advice on national plans and programmes when requested by the Council's
chair;
- The CAMA can issue reports and make
proposals on environmental issues at its own initiative, or as a result of a request by the
different ministries. This prerogative is extended to the regional and local
administrations;
- Propose measures aimed at fostering environment-related job creation, the
participation of civil society and the promotion of ecologic and environmental
values;
- Propose environmental education measures aimed at informing, orienting and
making the civil society aware of the ecologic and environmental values;
- Propose any necessary measure for the better implementation of
international agreements on environment and sustainable development matters, assess
the implementation of any legislation and programmes in place, and proposing
the necessary modifications;
- Improve the public-private sector partnerships on environmental issues.
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Substructure and Working Groups
At present, the following Working Groups are active in the CAMA:
- Water policy;
- Prevention of forest fires;
- Marine Biodiversity;
- Law on Natural Patrimony;
- Strategic Instruments for Nature Conservation;
- Strategic Plan of Transport and Infrastructures;
- Waste Policy;
- Environmental Information;
- Strategic Environmental Assessment;
- Air quality;
- Integrated Management in Coastal Zones.
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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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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.
- Opinion on the National
Sustainable Development Strategy (July 2007);
- Opinion on the project for a
Royal Decree approving the Law on Environmental Impact Assessment (March
2007);
- Opinion on National Integrated Waste Programme (March 2007);
- Opinion on the Project for the Law on Environmental Liability,
(October 2006);
- Opinion on the National Plan Allocating Emission Rights, (October 2006);
- Opinion on the Project for a Royal Decree on a Regulation developing the
Law 16/2002 of 1 July, on the IPPC, (July 2006);
- Opinion on the Project for a Royal Decree approving the coexistence of GMO
crops with conventional and ecologic crops, (July 2006);
- Opinion on the Project for a Royal Decree on waste water reutilisation, (July
2006);
- Opinion on the Project for a Royal Decree that modifies the Royal Decree
1997/1995 of 7 December, establishing measures to preserve biodiversity
through habitat conservation, (July 2006).
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Last update: 5 February 2007