Waste Management Plan of the City of Prague

Status: Draft Waste Management Plan of the City of Prague was approved on December 14, 2004 by the Council of the City (see the Decision of the Council of the City of Prague No. 2134 of 14 December 2004). In October 2005 the Assembly of Representatives of the City of Prague approved a draft of Generally Binding Ordinance establishing the Binding Part of the Waste Management Plan, which shall become effective on 1 January 2006 (see the Decision of the Assembly of the City of Prague No. 31/22 of 20 October 2005).

The project framework: The waste management plan has been developed by the City of Prague in its sole power pursuant to Sections 41 and 43 of the Act No. 185/2001 Code on waste and amending certain other acts as amended by the following regulations and furthermore pursuant to Section 27 of the Decree of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic No. 383/2001 Code on details of waste management. The initial background material for the WMP development was the Waste Management Plan of the Czech Republic; the other background materials are the approved conceptual documents of the City of Prague (Strategic Plan of the City of Prague and the Land-Use plan of the Residential Area of the City of Prague).

Party Ordering: The City Of Prague represented by Department of Municipal Infrastructure of the Prague City Hall.

Supplier: The company of Dekont Umwelttechnik, spol. s r. o. The works are coordinated by the Steering Committee of the WMPC (a temporary commission of the Council of the City of Prague, established on 27 January 2004).

Description, course of the development: This is the very fundamental conceptual document to establish conditions for waste generation prevention and waste management in accord with the act on waste on the territory of the region and serves as the background material for the development of the following waste management plans of waste producers. The objective thereof was to design such an integrated waste management system, which will make the current system more effective and will prefer the material reuse and energy use of waste to waste disposal. The WMP of the City of Prague has been developed for the period till 2013. Waste Management Plan of the City of Prague (POH) consists of three parts: Analytical part of the POH of the City of Prague, Binding part of the POH of the City of Prague and Directive part of the POH of the City of Prague. The process of strategic environmental impact assessment (SEA) of the Plan was finished in April, 2005. The document called the "Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Waste Management Plan of the City of Prague /SEA WMP Prague/ was developed by the regional Environmental Centre of the Czech Republic and the Centre for Community Works of Central Bohemia. In October 2005 the Assembly of Representatives of the City of Prague approved a draft of Generally Binding Ordinance establishing the Binding Part of the Waste Management Plan, which shall become effective on 1 January 2006. The Binding part of the POH of the City of Prague will then serve as a cornerstone document for decision-making and other action of responsible administrative and local authorities in the field of waste management.

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Contacts, detail information: Account update: October, 2005

The CD-ROM comprises the following documents (in Czech only)


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