Amélioration de l’application des lois de l’environnement en Amérique du Nord
État actuel : Conclu
Plan opérationnel : 2013 et 2014
En renforçant les mécanismes de coopération afin d’améliorer la conformité environnementale et l’application des lois fondée sur les renseignements, ce projet renforcera les capacités des parties à cibler le commerce illicite de matières assujetties à des règlements de l’environnement, dont les déchets électroniques, les déchets dangereux (p. ex., les batteries d’accumulateurs au plomb usées), les substances appauvrissant la couche d’ozone et les motocyclettes non conformes à l’échelle de l’Amérique du Nord.
Principales réalisations
- Reduced the limiting factors to sharing enforcement-sensitive information and intelligence among countries, including legal, technological and security issues, notably through actions of the North American Working Group on Environmental Enforcement and Compliance Cooperation (EWG); opened and reinforced channels for sustainable communication and collaboration among the three countries
- Addressed some EWG core activities: building the enforcement capacity of inspectors at border crossings, incorporating intelligence-led enforcement into the operations of the enforcement
agencies, and promoting innovative and emerging technologies to support surveillance and monitoring by enforcement officers in the three countries - The EWG has increased trilateral understanding of the regulatory gaps that exist among the three countries that may allow illegal smuggling of environmentally regulated materials to occur
Résultats
- The first edition of the CEC-EWG Digest, a compilation of enforcement-related information from the three countries, was produced and widely disseminated amongst the Parties’ officials
- An online training course to curb illegal imports of ozone-depleting substances—a free and easy-to-use tool available to the public at <www.cec.org/ODS>, which complements the Hazardous Waste Online Trainer
