In the period 29th of March – 1st of April 2016 Greek expert Mr. Dimitris Tsotsos and Italian expert Mr. Romano Ruggeri, within mission 1.3.6, implemented a training on execution of environmental inspections in line with EU best practices, in cooperation with two pilot installations, Drisla landfill and Makstil electric arc furnace (EAF) iron & steel installation.
The trainee group, from the Skopje & Polog regions, included central and local environmental inspectors, as well as permit writers.
After preparing the last arrangements on the 29th of March, the training delivered encompassed 3 days (30th of March – 1st of April), divided as follows:
- Day 1: The group was divided into 2 subgroups was trained on how to prepare an inspection, by developing an inspection checklist and an agenda for the inspection, taking as starting point the templates developed within the project and relevant documents from the installations (permit, monitoring reports).
- Day 2: Inspection site visit was performed. One subgroup went to Drisla landfill and the other to Makstil EAF iron & steel installation.
- Day 3: The 2 subgroups were trained on inspection reporting. Emphasis was made on how the inspection results are an input to improve the quality of permits, to tune the frequency of inspections and to define some key points to inspect in follow-up inspections.
Documents (the templates are available as well in the section “documents and links” of this website):