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With many thanks to SEWACO s.r.o. our WasteCulture country lead for Czech Republic, we are proud to bring in some new ideas about knowledge management and how important energy recovery from waste is for GHG mitigation.

By creating the BiH ESAP 2030+, the competent institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) received an Environmental Strategy and an Action Plan with strategic and thematic goals, with feasible, clearly defined and adopted measures. The content of BiH ESAP2030+ refers to seven EU areas of the environmental acquis, including the thematic area of Waste.

This article aims to give a general overview of waste management development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, its reform in the recent past and investment opportunities that arise from the complexity of the country.

This annual report summarizes WtERT-Germany's activities, like the outcome of the website's relaunch, our consultancy projects in Croatia and Tunisia as well as hosting/delegation of guests in 2018. In addition, it gives a glimpse of what we are about to do in 2019.

Waste management responsibilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are distributed between a number of institutions at various levels. According to the Constitution, environment is not a core competence of the state of BiH.

WtERT Germany GmbH Managing Director Werner was attending the IFAT 2018 fair to establish contacts and inform about WtERT Decision Support System.

The reform in the solid waste sector started with development of National Solid Waste Management Strategy in 2000 through EU Phare programme.

This paper examines the reasons for the adoption of “green policies in the field of energy and climate change in four South East European (SEE) countries – Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). It evaluates the extent to which these policies are influenced by the European Union (EU) as opposed to other factors, such as international obligations, domestic pressures (from NGOs, the private sector, political parties), perceived business opportunities, or concern for the environment. Theoretically, the paper primarily relies on the rationalist institutionalism approach, which focuses on the use of conditionality in the EU accession process. The empirical part of the paper is based upon 30 semi-structured questionnaire responses from and interviews with government officials, NGO representatives, and experts from international organizations actively involved in the field. Overall the underlying incentive of EU membership was evaluated as the most powerful generator of green energy policies in SEE. While other factors seem to act in synergy with the EU’s demands, responses suggest that it is unlikely these factors would have led to the adoption of the green policies/programs outside of the EU context. However, differences among the countries examined do exist. They can be attributed to a certain extent to the countries’ differences in their progress on the path to the EU, although some level of variation, due to a number of political, economic, and social circumstances, is to be expected.

The paper is wrapping on the data on hazardous waste management for South-eastern Europe (SEE)/Balkan region. Reporting is based on the usage of selected analytical tools for environmental management. Concluded remarks are expected to be guiding principles to handle hazardous waste on regional basis in developing/in transition countries. Reporting by selected Analytical Tools for Environmental Management: Hazardous waste management in South Eastern Europe

Concerning solid waste management, BiH is legging behind developed countries. The problem of collection, treatment and final disposal of waste was not treated adequately even before the war. The destruction caused by the 1992-95 Bosnian war has only made things worse. A number of project and studies on solid waste management have been funded and supported by the Word Bank, EC, other IFIs and local authorities in an attempt to improve the situation in this domain. The legal framework was adopted by both entity governments in parallel to affore mentioned activities of project documentations preparation.

E-waste is a complex mixture of materials and components that can cause major environmental and health problems due to its hazardous content. In order to improve e-waste management and contribute to the circular economy and increase resource efficiency, it is necessary to improve the collection, treatment, and recycling of e-waste.

The main goal of the paper is to review the existing state and propose a model solution for the introduction of the waste-to-energy concept in the Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as these Balkan countries are a source of high pollution due to the inefficient use of fossil fuels and the operation of coal-fired power plants.

The development of correct strategies in municipal solid waste (MSW) management should start from an in-depth analysis of the political, social, economic and environmental context, and consider specific interests, roles and responsibilities of local actors, as households, communitybased organisations and other service users, local and national government authorities, nongovernmental organisations, formal and informal private sector enterprises, external support agencies.

Hazardous Waste Management in the Balkan Region is presented as the "case study" of transboundary environmental pollution".