DRAFT National Action Plan (NAP) for Mediterranean region in B&H for prevention of pollution from land based activities CONTENT I. PREFACE....................................................................................................................... iii II. ACRONYMS................................................................................................................... iv III. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY................................................................................................. v 1 INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................1 1.1 Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) ...................................................................................1 1.2 Strategic Action Program (SAP) ......................................................................................1 1.3 Bosnia and Herzegovina in Mediterranean Action Plan ..................................................2 2 OBJECTIVE AND METHODOLOGY OF NAP ...............................................................3 2.1 Objective of NAP .............................................................................................................3 2.2 Methodology of NAP elaboration.....................................................................................3 3 LEGISLATION AND INSTITUTIONS..............................................................................5 3.1 Legal framework..............................................................................................................5 3.1.1 Country background.........................................................................................5 3.1.2 The Water Law in FB&H ...................................................................................5 3.1.3 The Water Law in RS........................................................................................6 3.1.4 Set of environmental laws.................................................................................7 3.1.4.1 Federation B&H................................................................................................7 3.1.4.2 Republika Srpska............................................................................................10 3.1.5 Draft Law on inland and maritime sailing........................................................12 3.1.6 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (Mid-term Development Strategy) ...........12 3.1.7 National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) ..................................................13 3.2 Administrative framework ..............................................................................................15 3.2.1 Current state of affairs in the environmental sector ........................................15 3.2.2 State level.......................................................................................................15 3.2.3 Inter-entity bodies...........................................................................................16 3.2.4 Entity level......................................................................................................17 3.2.4.1 Federation B&H..............................................................................................17 3.2.4.2 Republika Srpska............................................................................................20 3.2.5 Local institutional structure .............................................................................21 3.2.5.1 Federation BiH................................................................................................21 3.2.5.2 Republika Srpska............................................................................................22 4 SECTOR PLANS ..........................................................................................................24 4.1 Identification of priority sectors......................................................................................24 4.2 Sector plans...................................................................................................................25 4.2.1 Communal wastewaters.................................................................................25 4.2.2 Solid waste.....................................................................................................31 4.2.3 Industrial wastewaters (BOD5)........................................................................35 4.2.4 Hazardous waste............................................................................................37 4.2.4.1 Medical waste.................................................................................................37 4.2.4.2 Metal industry .................................................................................................39 4.2.5 Thermo power plant and mine Gacko.............................................................40 4.2.6 Mineral fertilizers and pesticides.....................................................................43 4.3 Table 1. List of priority problems ...................................................................................45 i 5 ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS........................................................................................54 5.1 Introduction....................................................................................................................54 5.2 Current condition in B&H...............................................................................................54 5.3 Proposal of economic instruments ................................................................................55 5.3.1 Irrigation service charges................................................................................56 5.3.2 Grants, soft loans, reduced tax rates - subsidies to support potable water quality improvement..............................................................................57 5.3.3 Grants, soft loans, reduced tax rates – subsidies for construction of Waste Water Treatment Plants ......................................................................58 5.3.4 Hazardous waste charges ..............................................................................59 5.3.5 Industrial waste charges .................................................................................60 5.3.6 Waste non-compliance fee.............................................................................61 5.3.7 Subsidies to support recycling and reuse .......................................................62 5.3.8 Deposit refund schemes – beverage containers (PET, glass, metals) ...........63 5.3.9 Air pollution charge.........................................................................................64 5.3.10 Air emission non-compliance fee....................................................................65 5.3.11 Noise pollution non-compliance fee................................................................65 5.3.12 Subsidies for investments in pollution prevention and control ........................66 5.3.13 Pesticide charges ...........................................................................................67 6 PRIORITY LIST FOR 2010 ...........................................................................................69 7 TABLE...........................................................................................................................73 7.1 Issue/Impact Matrix.......................................................................................................74 7.2 Rank list of environmental priorities...............................................................................95 7.3 IP Matrix......................................................................................................................102 7.4 Rang list IP ..................................................................................................................121 7.5 Combined table of issue/impact and IP matrix ............................................................128 7.6 Cleaner Production table.............................................................................................142 8 SUPPLEMENTS..........................................................................................................143 8.1 Issue/Impact matrix.....................................................................................................144 8.2 IP matrix......................................................................................................................145 8.3 Basic measures of cleaner production for BOD5 reduction (world experiences).........147 8.4 Grude – Uniline Brewery .............................................................................................151 9 LITERATURE..............................................................................................................152 ii I. PREFACE Elaboration of National Action Plans (NAP) of Mediterranean countries, including B&H, is carried out within Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) located in Athens, Greece. According to “Protocol for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution from land-based sources and Activities” (LBS protocol) of Barcelona convention, on XI meeting of Contractual parties of Barcelona convention, held in Tunis, in 1997, Strategic action plan (SAP) has been adopted, which gave guidelines to signatory countries for undertaking independent actions in accordance with national politics, priorities and resources, towards