1st International Conference
Draft Agenda

FIRST DAY - MAY 28th, 2002

8:30 hs.
Accreditation.

9:00 hs.
Opening Plenary Sessions

• Daniel Sabsay - Executive Director of FARN
  
• Carlos Merenson - Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Nation.
  
• Mabel H. Muller - Head of the Commission of Ecology and Human Development of the National Senate.
  
• Adriana Bianchi - World Bank Institute, Environment and Natural Resource Division

9:30 - 11:00 hs.
Opening Panel: Towards a Program of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Latin America

• María Eugenia Di Paola, FARN.
  Presentation of the background document [in PDF · 120 KB] and the goals of the Conference.
• Adriana Bianchi, WBI-Environment and Natural Resource Division.
  General considerations about the Conference and the E-dialogue.

11:00 - 11:30 hs.
Coffee

11:30 - 13:00 hs.
Panel II: Environmental Enforcement and Compliance. Institutional Aspects. Inter- governmental coordination and Administrative Organization

Speakers:
• Augusto César Acuña
  Secretary of Environment of the Province of Catamarca. Vice-President of the Federal Council of Environment (COFEMA), Argentina.
  COFEMA as an organism of coordination among institutions. Functioning, efficacy, future trends. National situation of aspects related to environmental law, enforcement, and compliance. Proposal of guidelines for future actions of the public, private sectors, & NGOs.
  

• Francisco Neira
  Auditor from the Management office or Forest Enforcement, National Forest Corporation (CONAF), Chile.
  Francisco Neira, Auditor from the Management office or Forest Enforcement, National Forest Corporation (CONAF), Chile.
  

• Sílvia Cappelli
  Justice prosecutor, Coordinator of the Operational Supporting Center for the Environmental Defense, Rio Grande do Sul State, President of the Brazilian Association of National Prosecutors for the Environment, ABRAMPA, General Secretary at the Institute of Lawyers for a Green Planet.
  Environmental Management in Brazil: National Environmental System - From formality to reality.

• Miguel Angel Cancino Aguilar
  Sub prosecutor of Land planning for the Environmental and Land planning Prosecutor Office of the Federal District, Mexico.
  Reflections about the Mechanisms of Enforcement of
  Environmental Law in Mexico
  

  Moderator: Daniel A. Sabsay. Executive Director of FARN

13:30 hs.
Lunch

14:30 - 17:30 hs.
Workshops:

• Environmental Law Drafting and Enforcement
  Ignacio Gei. Professor of Environmental Law, Blas Pascal University. Programs of Micro Regional Development.
  Implementation and observance of the Environmental Legislation
  

• Environmental Enforcement and Compliance. Institutional Aspects. Inter-governmental coordination and Administrative Organization.
  Irene Wais de Badgen. Director of the Regulatory Agency of Public Services of the City of Buenos Aires.
  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

• Environmental Enforcement and Compliance. Institutional Aspects. Inter-governmental coordination and Administrative Organization.
  José Alberto Esain. Vice-president of the Association of Environmental Studies of Mar del Plata, Argentina (AMEAI).
  Environmental Federalism. Distribution of Environmental Powers in the Argentinean National Constitution. Principle “To think globally and act locally”

17:30 hs.
Coffee.

SECOND DAY- MAY 29th, 2002

8:30 hs.
Acreditation

9:00 - 11:00 hs.
Panel III. Specific environmental enforcement and compliance mechanisms. Legal enforceable requirements. The rol of the executive and the judiciary. The promotion of incentives for environmental compliance.

• Jeffrey Miller, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, y Profesor de Derecho Ambiental de Pace University White Plains, New York. Se desempeñó como funcionario a cargo de la Oficina de Aplicación y Cumplimiento de la Normativa Ambiental en la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE.UU.
  Effective enforcement of environmental laws. Experience of the United States

• Ada Alegre Chang, Peruvian Society of Environmental Law.
  Enforceable rules and requirements: The Peruvian experience. Rol of the Executive branch and the Judiciary

• Silvia Nonna, Coordinator of the National Register of Hazardous Waste, Argentina
  Specific Mechanisms for Environmental Enforcement. Importance of the existence of enforceable environmental rules and requirements. Role of the Executive branch and the Judiciary.  

• Guillermo Acuña, Legal Advisor of Environmental Issues of the Environment and Human Settlements of ECLAC.
  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  

  Moderator: Daniel Ryan, Deputy Executy Director of FARN

11:00 - 11:30 hs.
Coffee

11:30 - 13:30 hs.
Panel IV. International initiatives of environmental compliance and enforcement in Latin America. Mercosur, and regional particular initiatives. The importance to strengthen regional instruments and the international network for environmental compliance and enforcement (INECE) in Latin America.

• María Marcela Flores, currently she is the Sectorial Deputy Specialist of legal and institutional issues of the Program of Environmental Protection of Río de la Plata”. Academic Secretary of Austral University, Graduate Program of Energy and Environment.
  Regional Integration among the Countries in the Area of Río de la Plata

• Raquel Agüero, member of the Legal Committee of The Argentine Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEADS), Representative of CEADS in sub- group 6, Mercosur.
  Environmental Legislation in Mercosur

• Ricardo Cronembold, Bolivian Society of Environmental Law.
  Ten Years of Validity of the Environmental Law. The Bolivian Experience (1992 – 2002)

  Moderator: Aldo Rodríguez Salas, Congress University

13:00 hs.
Lunch

14:30 - 17:30 hs.
Workshops:

Specific environmental enforcement and compliance mechanisms. The rol of the executive branch and the judiciary.

• Oscar Lascaray. Ex – Chief of Department for the Control of Water Pollution, of OSN. Currently in charge of the Analyst of the Effluent Quality Area – Service Quality Management, of the Tripartite Agency of Sanitary Works and Services – ETOSS, Regulatory Agency of Services rendered by Aguas Argentinas S.A.
  Experiences in the Control of Industrial Liquid Effluents
  

• Antonio Gustavo Gómez. General Prosecutor before the Federal Chamber of Tucumán
  Law 24.051: Investigation of crimes against the environment in the context of the Federal Justice

• Jorge Gamboa, María Cristina Bazán, Jorge E. Pedernera, Luis Alberto López, Ignacio Gei, María Eugenia Durand. Members of the Environmental Forum of the University Blas Pascal of the city of Córdoba, Argentina.
  Extensive Environmental Criminal Enforcement in the Province of Córdoba - Argentine Republic  

• Patricia Abed de Vera y Aragón, (IDEA) from Paraguay. Agnès Sibileau, Ezequiel Francisco Santagada, Assessors of Neuquen Foundation for the Nature Conservation, San Martin de los Andes, Argentina.
  Argentina and Paraguay: Notes on Relevant Aspects about Environmental Damage.

Promotion of incentives for environmental compliance

• Horacio Payá. CEADS Representative (Argentine Business Council for Sustainable Development).
  Voluntary Compliance with Environmental Regulations: Importance of Environmental Management Systems

• Leila Devia, Coordinator of the Program on Environment of the Technological Industrial National Institute (INTI).
  Compliance with Environmental Legislation by the small companies (PYMES). Its relationship with the compliance with voluntary rules
  

Strengthening Regional Instruments for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement

• Workshop with no presentation. It will be based on the comments of Plenary's participants and speakers.

17:30 - 18:00 hs.
Coffee

18:00 hs.
Plenary with the conclusions of the workshops. General closing session.

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