project manager: manolo clar, scp/rac contact scp/rac: enrique villamore evillamore@cprac.org phone....

Project Manager: Manolo Clar, SCP/RAC

Contact SCP/RAC:

Enrique Villamore

evillamore@cprac.org

Phone. (+34) 93 553 87 90

Sub-component 2.3: Environmentally Sound Management of equipment, stocks and wastes containing or contaminated by PCBs in national electricity

companies of Mediterranean countries

Activity 2.3.3 Awareness of importance of ESM of PCBs equipment

Activity 2.3.4 Technical capacity for ESM of PCBs equipment

Index

1. Main activities until end of project2. Bottlenecks or issues in final delivery3.Deliverables/successes and show-case events

Two (2) SCPRAC awareness workshops (0,5 days) and two (2) training courses (1,5 days) on PCBs management in Turkey and Egypt

1. Main activities until end of project

Activity 2.3.4 Technical capacity for ESM of PCBs equipment

1. Main activities until end of project

Activity 2.3.4 Technical capacity for ESM of PCBs equipment

PCB awareness workshop (0,5 days) + training (1,5 days)

Activity Location Date Status

PCB awareness workshop + training course (2 days)

Ankara (Turkey) May-June 2015 Planned

PCB awareness workshop + training course (2 days)

El Cairo (Egypt) May-June 2015 Planned

• Three Regional Meetings • Three updated/new guidelines (PCB, Lube Oil,

Tannery) and related fact sheets• Best practices on Phosphogypsum• 2 National Workshops on policy reforms• 12 National workshops on NAP update• Publications (two reports )• NAP implementation country fact sheets• PCB disposal (over 850 tons)• Training (100 people)

1. Main activities until end of project (2.1, 2.2 and 2.3) ( MEDPOL)

Tunisia

Project Steering Committee operational/3 meetings Study tour abroad for 6 national experts 5 – 14 April 2015. The National workshop date to be held in 24 April 2015 Best practices in process of preparationAlgeria

• Project Steering Committee operational/3 meetings• Economic study ongoing and NAP on lube oil• Draft law• National workshop 21 April 2015

2.1.1 Policy reform in major industrial sectors (fertilizer and tannery industries and lube oil management)

Web based tool delivered. Guidelines for using the web based tool was prepared and agreed by

MEDPOL. Regional Training workshop organized in Athens – Greece on 25 November

2014. ELV tool validated and found quite useful. hosting the web –based tool on UNEP/MAP web site in process Follow up – important Further validation would strengthen the tool Enthusiasm on the potential uses of the tool

2.1.6 Setting ELV in industrial effluents and EQS in all participating countries for 10 parameters

(streamlining EcAp in the LBS protocol implementation).

Regional meeting and training in Athens, Greece from 25-27 November 2014.

The Guidance Document on Environmental Inspection systems;

Training on real cases from major pollutant sectors including illegal trafficking of HW

Vision paper prepared with the countries on key future priorities to enhance compliance and enforcement in the Mediterranean

2.1.8 Environmental Inspectorate and Enforcement

Environmental inspectorate/ National activities

National Training workshop organized in Alexandria – Egypt at Hilton Hotel from 8-10 December 2014.

National Training workshop organized in Rabat – Morocco at Mercure Hotel from 17-18 December 2014.

2.3 Environmentally Sound Management of equipment, stocks and wastes containing or contaminated by PCBs in national

electricity companies of Mediterranean countries

• PCB ESM Guide • Draft Fact Sheets for 5 key sectors• Regional workshop to review the guidelines/guide and fact

sheets in Istanbul 7-9 April 2015; • Collaboration with H2020 • Collaboration with Basel Convention to address illegal

trafficking. • 40 participants confirmed

2.3.1 Legislative/institutional framework for implementation of ESM of PCBs

A PCBs website is up and running and continuously updated with project activities information: www.pcbsmed.org

2.3.3 Raising awareness of importance of ESM of PCBs equipment

3.1 Developed PCB Video 3. Deliverables/ successes and show-casing events

3.2 PCB management trainings3. Deliverables/successes and show-casing events

3.3 PCB brochures, toolkit and handouts3. Deliverables/successes and show-casing events

3.4 PCB inventories (MEDPOL)

3. Deliverables/successes and show-casing events

3.5 PCB disposal and final destruction (MEDPOL)

900 tons PCB proposed for destruction under the project

3. Deliverables/successes and show-casing events

• 4 up to date guidelines produced (policy framework, hot spot assessment, pollutant inventories, CBA

• List of NAP indicators agreed• 12 countries planned to be supported

( H2020, GEF and MTF)• Strong links with H2020, SCP and EU MSFD PoM

What to show: clear pollution reduction milestones and targets,

innovation, synergies, ecap streamline!

3.6 NAP update a major policy development with good potential of ‘’show case’’

3. Deliverables/successes and show-casing events

Thank you for your attention

Eliminate PCBs or die! 900 tons

will be eleminated by June 2015