Brochure "Heracleum sosnowskyi – dangerous aggressor"

• Front 5Mb
• Back 4Mb

Environmental Signs

• Environmental Signs Nr.1(1) 20Mb
• Environmental Signs Nr.2(2) 18Mb

Network of the Baltic Biomass

• Brochure “Planning of Bioenergy Landscapes of the Future” 0,8Mb

Persistent Organic Polluters

• POP Brochure 0,3Mb

Handbooks on Wood Biomass/Heat Supply

• How to save heat with small investments 0,5Mb
• Converting boiler rooms to using local fuel – wood pulp and other biomass (in Latvian) 8,3Mb
• Converting boiler rooms to using local fuel – wood pulp and other biomass (in Russian) 8,9Mb
• Let’s use local fuel in heat supply 6Mb
• How people can reduce their expenditure for heat (in Latvian and Russian) 1,8Mb

Handbook about Environmental Protection Control

Project Manager: Inese Kukle, phone: 7503544, e-mail: inese.kukle@videsprojekti.lv

The aim of this handbook is to introduce unified principles of control and supervision, methods and approaches in nature protection, as well as advance the quality of inspectors’ work. The handbook is a methodological supplementary aid to state environment inspectors in their work in especially protected territories, the Baltic Sea and Riga Gulf protective zone, in control of protected species and biotope. It also offers practical and legal advice in solving different situations.

• General Section
  • State management principles, the role of control within state management system
  • The Legal basis for an inspectors’ activities
  • The Ethical standards of inspectors’ activities
  • Laws and regulations, the administrative process of an institution
  • The rights and duties of an inspector
    
• Work planning
  • Strategic planning
  • Classification of objects under control
  • Forms and frequency of inspections
  • Work time management, planning inspections, creating work plans
    
• Preparation of Inspection
  • Availability, obtaining and analysis of information
  • Cooperation
  • International obligations in environment protection
  • Latvian national legislation in environment protection
  • Suggestions regarding work safety in an outside workplace 
    
• Carrying out Inspection
  • Reviewing of complaints, claims
  • Status control in specially protected areas and micro reserves
  • Status control in protected zones of overground water
  • Status Control in the coastal protected zone of the Baltic Sea and Riga Gulf 
  • Control over specially protected species trade (including Washington Conventions) and creation of collections
  • Control of nature protection requirements in forest management
  • Control of adherence to nature protection requirements stated in the administrative regulations of State Environmental Service
    
• Processing of Inspection Results and Applying Punitive sanctions
  • Sanctions and coercive means
  • Administrative punishment, identifying environmental loss and collection of penalty
  • Drafting up and processing administrative report for applying the legal responsibility
  • Civil action on compensation of environmental loss
  • Criminal liability
  • Summarizing inspection results
  • Giving information, work with mass media
  • Attachments

National Implementation Plan on Persistent Organic Pollutants

• Description (in English) 0,7Mb