PERMIT ISSUANCE
SYSTEM IN CROATIA
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
Authors: Jasna Paladin-Popović
Iva Milić Štrkalj
Renata Sinovčević
Brijuni, 27 November 2002
11/21/02
Croatia
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Who is issuing permits and based on what?
 State administration bodies based on legal provisions
What is encompassed by the permit issuance
system?
 Products on the market
 Toxic agents, hazardous active substances and explosive
substances
 Waste import, export
 Buildings and plants
 Environmental protection institutions
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MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AND PHYSICAL PLANNING
 Site permits and construction permits
 Permits for export of hazardous waste and export and
import of industrial waste, based on the opinion by the
Ministry of Economy
 Decisions on acceptability of intended interventions in
environment with environmental protection measures and
a plan of special measures
 Decisions on consent to the environmental protection
institutions (measuring emissions and immissions,
monitoring, drafting a Study on Assessment of
Environmental Effects - SAEE)
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STATE WATERS AUTHORITY
 WATER MANAGEMENT PERMITS
 Production and trade of chemical substances and their
preparations
 Water utilisation
 Waste waters
 Exploitation of sand, gravel, and stone
 WATER MANAGEMENT CONDITIONS
 For construction of water power plants; thermal power
plans; waste disposal, treatment, and storage facilities
 WATER MANAGEMENT PERMITS
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 MINISTRY OF HEALTH
 Import and trade of toxic agents, medicines, and narcotics
 MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
 Import and trade of herbicides, mineral fertilizers and veterinary
medicines
 MINISTRY OF ECONOMY
 Import of substances damaging the ozone layer based on consent by
the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning
 Launching on the market of a specific quantity of oil derivatives not
in compliance with the stipulated quality
 MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
 Transport of explosive substances
 MINISTRY OF MARITIME AFFAIRS, TRAFFIC AND
COMMUNICATIONS
 Transport of hazardous substances by the sea
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HEAT PROCESSING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTE
I SITE PERMIT
 Drafting a Study on
Assessment of Environmental
Effects
 Decision by the Ministry of
Environmental Protection and
Physical Planning on
admissibility of the intended
intervention, with
environmental measures and a
plan of special measures
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HEAT PROCESSING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTE
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II CONSTRUCTION PERMIT
Site permit
Consent by the Ministry of Interior
– fire and explosives safety
Consent by the power distribution
company
Sanitary consent – Ministry of
Health
Water management consent –
Croatian Waters Authority
Consent by the State Inspector –
safety at work
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HEAT PROCESSING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTE
III APPLICATION FOR PERMIT
 Decision on registration in the
Register of Companies or Trades
 Declaration on the responsible
person and his/her deputy
 Copies of the employment record
showing the qualifications and
work experience of the responsible
person and his/her deputy
 Technical documents of the
installation and technological
process description
 Construction license
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HEAT PROCESSING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTE
IV SUPERVISION ON
INSTALLATION
 Checking the compliance with
the prescribed technical and
technological conditions of the
installation for heat processing
of hazardous waste
 Checking the compliance with
the prescribed technical and
technological conditions for
storage of hazardous waste
 Trial work of incineration
equipment with measurement
of pollutants emission in waste
gases
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HEAT PROCESSING OF
HAZARDOUS WASTE
V DECISION BY MEP&PP
on compliance with the
requirements for heat
processing of hazardous
waste
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CONCLUSION:
 There is a great number of legal provisions and bodies
defining by their permits the conditions for performance
of activities and monitoring their implementation.
 Overlapping of the inspection competences is a cause of
reduced efficiency in determination of actual competence
in case of undertaking specific measures.
 Long process of permit issuance.
 Need to harmonize the system and form a single
competent body for permit issuance, whose inspection
would supervise the implementation of the measures.
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IPPC Directive recommendation
 All individual permits should be unified into a single one that would
encompass all the environmental effects and contain the safety at
work conditions and environmental protection by use of the BATBest Available Technique, which would reduce the pollutants
emissions to the environment and reduce the probability of accidents.
 Cooperation of government representatives, industry, and inspection
services in drafting of the permit.
 Permits for identical industries must be standardised.
 In the final formulation, technical solutions, geographic location of
the plant and local conditions of significance for environment
protection should be taken into account.
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PAST
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PRESENT
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FUTURE
• Application of
IPPC Directive
and use of BATBest Available
Technique
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