1. PRESENTATION OF MONTENEGRO
Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Working Group for Chapter 27 – Environment
Bilateral screening: Chapter 27
PRESENTATION OF MONTENEGRO
Brussels, March 2013

2. Chapter 27: Environment and climate change
EU ECOLABEL
Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the EU Ecolabel
Dragan Asanovic
Environmental Protection Agency
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Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union
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LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Law on Environment (Official Gazette of Montenegro, 48/08)
Articles 64, 65 - The possibility to award an eco-label
Article 69 – Penal provisions
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Law on Environment
The possibility to award an eco-label is prescribed by articles 64 and 65 of the Law on Environment (Official Gazette of Montenegro, 48/08)
This Law provides for an eco-label to be awarded to:
Products intended for general consumption except for foods, drink and pharmaceutical products, whose production, sale, trade or disposal pollutes the environment to a less degree than that of similar products, or which were obtained by recycling;
For processes and services that have reduced environmental impact.
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Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union
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Law on Environment
A legal person or entrepreneur may be awarded an eco-label for
products,processes or services if their production or development or
delivery reduces:
energy resource consumption;
harmful and dangerous substances emission;
waste production;
consumption of natural resources, and other.
The Ministry competent for environmental protection will adopt the
Act on granting the right to use the ecological label.
The right to use an eco-label will be awarded for a period of three years,
based on an application submitted by an interested person to the Ministry.
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Law on Environment
The costs of the award of the right to use an eco-label shall be born by the applicant.
The right to use an eco-label will be revoked if a product, process or service ceases to comply with one of the requirements for award of the label.
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Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union
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Law on Environment
Closer requirements and the procedure for obtaining the right to use the eco-label, the amount of costs incurred by award of the right to use an eco-label, the appearance and manner of use of an eco-label for products, processes and services will be prescribed by the Ministry competent for environmental protection. - this act not yet adopted, because ministry decided to prepare new Law on environment next year
Act on the award of the right to use an eco-label will be prescribed the Ministry competent for environmental protection.
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Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union
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Law on Environment
Penal provisions - Article 69 of the Law on Environment (Official Gazette of
Montenegro, 48/08)
The Law provides for a penal provision for legal persons and entrepreneurs in the event they fail to use the eco-label in the prescribed manner
Legal person and entrepreneur shall be fined for an offense, in the amount of hundredfold to three hundredfold amount of the minimum wage in Montenegro.
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EU Eco-label Regulation (EC/66/2010) - Current status of implementation -
The implementation of this Regulation has not started yet
There is no national eco-label system in place
The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism considers the option to join the voluntary eco-label scheme before accession to the EU
The new Law on Environment planned for 2014 shall contain a provision on application of the Regulation in Montenegro before accession to the EU.
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10. Thank you for your attention