1st International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Latin America
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Contents

- Preface, by Daniel A. Sabsay
- Opening Remarks, by Adriana Bianchi
- Introduction, by María Eugenia Di Paola
- Conference Program

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PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

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Program of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Latin America

• Towards the building of an Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Latin America Program, by María Eugenia Di Paola
• Electronic Dialogue Conclusions, by María Eugenia Di Paola

Institutional aspects, intergovernmental coordination and administrative organization

• Decree Law Nº 701 of 1974, principal legal device on the promotion of forests in Chile. Achievements, projections, and enforcement of its provisions, by Francisco Neira Martínez
• Environmental Management in Brazil: National Environmental System - From formality to reality, by Silvia Capelli
• Reflections about the Mechanisms of Enforcement of the Environmental Normativity in Mexico, by Miguel Angel Cancino
• Ten years of Validity of the Environmental Law. The Bolivian Experience (1992-2002), by Ricardo Cronembold Bello

Specific Mechanisms for environmental compliance and enforcement. Importance of enforceable requirements. Role of the Executive and Judicial branches. Promotion of incentives for environmental compliance

• Effective Enforcement of Environmental Laws Experience of the United States, by Jeffrey G. Miller
• Enforceable rules and requirements: The Peruvian Experience. Role of the Executive Branch and the Judiciary, by Ada Alegre Chang
• Specific Mechanisms for Environmental Enforcement. Role of the Executive Branch and the Judiciary. The Argentina’s Experience on Hazardous Waste, by Silvia Nonna
• Experiences in the Use of Economic Instruments for Environmental Management in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Relation with the Compliance with Environmental Law, by Guillermo Acuña

International initiatives for environmental compliance and enforcement. Regional integration treaties. The importance to strengthen regional instruments and INECE in Latin America

• Regional Integration among the Countries in the Area of the Río de la Plata, by María Marcela Flores
• Environmental Legislation in Mercosur, by Raquel Agüero
• Strengthening Environmental Enforcement and Compliance Through Networks, by Durwood Zaelke, Markowitz Kenneth y Thomas Higdon

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WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS

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Institutional aspects, intergovernmental coordination and administrative organization

• Implementation and observance of environmental legislation, by Ignacio Gei
• Environmental Standards related to Public Services in Buenos Aires: The case of the Regulatory Agency of Public Services of the City. Enforcement of Institutional, Coordination and Organizational Aspects, by Irene Wais de Badgen
• Environmental Federalism. Distribution of Environmental Competencies In the Argentinean National Constitution. Principle “to think globally and act locally, by José Alberto Esain

Specific Mechanisms for environmental compliance and enforcement

• Experiences in the Control of Industrial Liquid Effluents, by Oscar J. Lascaray
• Law 24.051: Investigation of crimes against the environment in the context of the Federal Justice, by Antonio G. Gómez
• Extensive Environmental Criminal Enforcement in the Province of Córdoba - Argentine Republic, by Jorge Gamboa, María Cristina Bazán, Jorge E. Pedernera, Luis Alberto López, Ignacio Gei, María Eugenia Durand
• Argentina and Paraguay: Notes on Relevant Aspects of the Problem of the Environmental Damage, by Patricia Abed de Vera y Aragón, Agnès Sibileau, Ezequiel Francisco Santagada

Promotion of incentives for environmental enforcement

• Voluntary Compliance with Environmental Regulations: Importance of Environmental Management System, by Horacio Payá

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WORKSHOPS CONCLUSIONS

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Workshop 1 - Environmental Law drafting and enforcement

Workshop 2 - Intergovernmental and Administrative Coordination for environmental compliance and enforcement

Workshop 3 - Intergovernmental and Administrative Coordination for environmental compliance and enforcement.

Workshop 4 - Mechanisms for environmental compliance and enforcement. Rol of the Executive and Judicial branch

Workshop 5 - Mechanisms for environmental compliance and enforcement. Rol of the Executive and Judicial branch

Workshop 6 - Promotion of incentives for environmental compliance

Workshop 7 - Strengthening regional instruments for environmental compliance and enforcement

Participants list

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