Strategic Evaluation of Environment and Risk Prevention – Country Report – Slovak Republic STRATEGIC EVALUATION ON ENVIRONMENT AND RISK PREVENTION UNDER STRUCTURAL AND COHESION FUNDS FOR THE PERIOD 2007-2013 Contract No. 2005.CE.16.0.AT.016. National Evaluation Report for Slovakia Main Report Directorate General Regional Policy A report submitted by in association with Mr. Dušek Ondrej Mr. Stijn Vermoote DUIS ECOLAS nv Srbska 21 Lange Nieuwstraat 43, 612 00, Brno 2000 Antwerp Czech Republic Belgium Tel: +420 541.244.197-8 TEL +32/3/233.07.03 [email protected] [email protected] Date: November 10th, 2006 GHK Brussels Rue de la Sablonnière, 25 B-1000 Brussels Tel: +32 (0)2 275 0100; Fax : +32 (2) 2750109 GHK London 526 Fulham Road London, United Kingdom SW6 5NR Tel: +44 20 7471 8000; Fax: +44 20 7736 0784 www.ghkint.com TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................1 1 INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY................................................................................................2 2 OVERVIEW AND HORIZONTAL ISSUES...............................................................................................4 2.1 General facts of the Country .................................................................................................................4 2.2 State of the environment.......................................................................................................................4 2.3 State of the environment infrastructure.................................................................................................6 2.4 Implementation status of the European environmental acquis..............................................................7 2.5 Environmental policy.............................................................................................................................9 2.6 Environmental expenditure (2000-2006).............................................................................................11 2.7 Future Plans (2007-20013) .................................................................................................................14 3 WATER SUPPLY...................................................................................................................................15 3.1 Current situation..................................................................................................................................15 3.2 Needs for the future ............................................................................................................................19 4 WASTE WATER ....................................................................................................................................25 4.1 Current situation..................................................................................................................................25 4.2 Needs for the future ............................................................................................................................30 5 MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE .................................................................................................................37 5.1 Current situation..................................................................................................................................37 5.2 Needs for the future ............................................................................................................................41 6 RENEWABLE ENERGY........................................................................................................................49 6.1 Current situation..................................................................................................................................49 6.2 Needs for the future ............................................................................................................................51 7 NATURAL RISK MANAGEMENT .........................................................................................................55 7.1 Current situation..................................................................................................................................55 7.2 Needs for the future ............................................................................................................................57 8 PRIORITY ASSESSMENT.....................................................................................................................61 8.1 Part 1: summarising the needs assessment .......................................................................................61 8.2 Part 2: Assessing priorities within fields ..............................................................................................65 8.3 Part 3: Assessing Priorities Across Fields...........................................................................................72 9 ANNEXES..............................................................................................................................................79 9.1 Annexes Current situation...................................................................................................................79 9.2 Annexes Needs assessment ..............................................................................................................95 9.3 Annexes Priority assessment............................................................................................................101 10 REFERENCE LIST ............................................................................................................................119 10.1 Literature, databases and websites consulted................................................................................119 10.2 Interviews .......................................................................................................................................119 Strategic Evaluation of Environment and Risk Prevention – Country Report – Slovak Republic EXECUTIVE SUMMARY See separate document. GHK, ECOLAS, IEEP, CE 1 Strategic Evaluation of Environment and Risk Prevention – Country Report – Slovak Republic 1 INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY This report is a part of the project “Strategic Evaluation on Environment & Risk Prevention Under Structural & Cohesion Funds for 2007-2013”, European Commission project No. 2005.CE.16.0.AT.016, attributed to GHK in association with ECOLAS – Environmental Consultancy and Assistance, IEEP – Institute for European Environmental Policy, and Cambridge Econometrics. The project’s overall aim is to provide the strategic evaluation of the needs and priorities for environmental investment under the structural and cohesion funds for the period 2007-2013. It covers 5 fields of environmental investment: water supply, waste water treatment, municipal solid waste, renewable energy sources and natural risk management. In order to identify and evaluate needs in the selected fields, and to select investment priorities for the Structural and Cohesion Funds for the 2007 – 2013 period, the project analyses the current situation in each field and the financial allocations during the current programming period (2000-2006). The regional scope of the project is 15 countries, comprising the 10 new Member States (NMS) plus Bulgaria, Romania and 3 ‘old’ cohesion Member States (Greece, Portugal and Spain). This report focuses on Slovak Republic and was prepared by DUIS s.r.o. and ECOLAS nv. The methodology implemented for preparing this report consisted in collaboration between a core team, who provided guidelines, and the several national evaluators to guarantee the consistence across the national reports. Each country reported back to the core team at each step in the research project and got feedback on how to proceed with the work. The executive summary is presented in a separate document, as it can be read and will be used as a stand-alone document. There is an initial chapter on horizontal issues, then for each field the following sections are presented: overview and needs. Priority assessment across fields is provided. The overview sections review the available information in Slovak Republic in each field. The information was drawn from EU information, national reports, field-specific databases, various field specific reports regarding the environmental situation in Slovak Republic and available investment plans. Key stakeholders in each field were also contacted and in some cases provided additional information. Although there are some information asymmetries between the fields, each overview assesses the current state of provision and infrastructures, the institutions involved, the past investment plans and their funding by Community support programmes in the relevant field. The needs chapters assess the needs for environmental investment over the period 2007-2013, taking into account the requirement to ensure compliance with the environmental acquis (the body of environmental regulations and directives), the consistency between environmental and other policies and priorities, and where applicable, the regional development benefits. The needs chapters aim to indicate the main policy objectives and targets for each field and, if possible, to quantify physical investment needs based on legislative environmental requirements, demand estimations and scenarios, the current state of infrastructure and the possibility