INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT APPROACH Notes

IDENTIFYING THE REGULATED COMMUNITY Which are the companies / inspection sites? What is the company business / inspection situation? Under which legal provisions? What is their compliance level? Who is in charge / responsible? Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach

Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach Table 3-6. A list of possible criteria to set priorities for inspection and enforcement Prioritisation Environmental aspects Administrative aspects Human health and social aspects Available resources Deadlines Decision-making hierarchy Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach Source: OECD

Workshop Prioritisation Table 3-6. A list of possible criteria to set priorities for inspection and enforcement Workshop Prioritisation Select from the list 10 criteria to set inspection priorities You may add other criteria yourself Give the sequence of the importance of the criteria (nr. 1 is most important, nr. 10 least important Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach Source: OECD

Aims of inspection and enforcement approach Return violators to compliance Impose a sanction Remove economic benefit of non - compliance Correct environmental damages Correct internal company management problems Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach

Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach Characteristics Proportionality Consistency Transparency Firmness Fairness Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach

Politicians and managers chose Responsibility Politicians and managers chose Inspectors use And offenders loose Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach

Inspection approach (informal) selection of target groups promoting operator behavior by creating understanding public announcement of inspections publication of information sheets publication inspection results choice between announced / unannounced inspections use of co-operation mechanisms Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach

Enforcement approach (formal) report writing on non-compliance notification of non-compliance imposing sanctions repealing a license closing a company restoring the situation on expense of the offender confiscation Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach

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Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach Describe the inspection approach that you would prefer Explain 3 benefits and 2 disadvantages Describe the enforcement approach that you would Roundtour WP2 - Workshop Inspection approach