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A visit to the local environmental office

We are pupils in the 8th grade at Lovisanejdens högstadium. We have all chosen an optional course called Planet Earth, where we work with topics related to nature and the environment.

For our Comenius task we went to visit the local environmental office and interviewed Maud Östman about the Finnish environmental laws. Finland´s nature is clean and beautiful because we have very strict laws and usually observe them.

. 1. Why did you want to work with environmental issues? For how long have you

been working?

• I got interested in biology at high school. After that I studied biology at Åbo

Akademi. I came to the region of Östra Nyland and Lovisa by mere chance.

I've worked in Lovisa since 1994.

2. Can you describe your different tasks at work?

• I have to follow the laws, more specifically The Environmental Protection Act,

which is the law protecting nature in Finland. I work with permit issues, for

example permissions for bigger operations like local powerplants and soil

resources.

3. Do you have any power to change/decide what people have to do?

I don't have a great deal of power, but if there are two options to choose from I

am usually allowed to give my opinion.

4. Are crimes against the environmental laws common? What kinds of crimes are they? What are the consequences? - There are different kinds of crimes. I have a lot of other things to do, so some offences may continue for some time before anyone notices them. A typical example would be waste disposal in the wrong way, that people leave waste in the wrong places. We also carry out inspections at building sites to make sure that everything is done according to regulations. The consequences for smaller crimes; correct the wrongdoing. For bigger crimes; fines and, of course, there is prison. In order to make the punishments fit the crime we cooperate with the police.

5. Which laws are the most important

ones in your opinion?

- The Environmental Protection Act

and the Air Protection Law.

6. Which laws are the most effective

ones?

- The Enviromental Protection Act. It

should be observed at all times.

7. Which laws have the biggest impact

on young people?

- Noise laws. For example, if you are

at a concert there must be certain

limits to how loud the music can be

played so that it doesn't disturb

anyone

The regional Natural reserves • are created to protect and emphasize big inhabited rural spaces.• Natural reserves are used to protect animals and plants so that they are neither endangered

nor destroyed by hunters. A regional natural reserve allows the sustainable development : it is a region’s natural and cultural heritage.

• There are two regional natural parks in Limousin, the park of the Plateau de Millevaches and the park Périgord Limousin which also extends over a part of the Dordogne region.

In Limoges, one inhabitant, one tree

• Remarkable trees

• A tree can be said "remarkable" according to various criteria : the emotion that it causes, but also its age, its dimensions, its shape and its historic value.

• We can consider more than one thousand remarkable trees in Limousin.• Particularly in Limoges, we can observe certain trees, such as the Hawthorn

situated in Victor Thuillat park, which is more than 250 years old. That particular hawthorn is the dean of the hawthorns in France.

Quercus pedonculataThe « oak of the A20 », in the North of Limoges, which shows a prodigious size, is wider than higher. The highway A20 was diverted to avoid sacrificing it. This Quercus pedonculata has been frequently painted. It lives in Beaune les mines, a village dedicated to the Gallic god Belenus .

Protection of environment : The botanical garden

• With Victor‐Thuillat park, the Botanical Garden of the Bishopric allows great observation of plants in situation. Created between 1956 and 1961, then enlarged in 1990 up to 1.3 hectares, the botanical garden is settled at the foot of Saint‐Etienne’s cathedral, which makes it one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in Europe with the one in Oxford in the UK. It includes a systematic part where collections are classified by family. A garden with themes gathers plants according to their utility, toxicity or to their regional rarity. Healing plants are placed next to the aromatic plants, not far from honey‐makers and color‐makers. On a terrace, five natural circles of the region were reconstituted: the oak and hornbeam grove, typical in valleys ; the beech grove with holly, Natural forest of the acid plateaux (upland areas); the moor with heather, characteristic of the limousine moor ; the wet zone, the kingdom of the willow ; and a peat bog with sphagnums.

• Among the regional natural circles reconstituted in the botanical garden there is a peat bog with sphagnums. Typical of the high plateau of the " limousine mountain ", this place corresponds to a hollow where the cold, acid and little mineralized water allow the development of sphagnums, aquatic mosses which evolve then in peat. In this environment, « droséras » which are rare insectivorous plants prosper .

Influence of the weather on the natural and urban landscape of different European regions

The Phlegraean Fields Regional Park Authority has as its purpose the sustainable development of the territory. The Agency pursues the institutional protection of the natural, environmental landscape, history and literature of the Phlegraean Fields.

The competences of management, protection and development of the Phlegrean territory are exercised by the Park, established by resolution of the Regional Council No. 2775/2003.

The natural environment is protected in its ecological and environmental integrity with strict observance of the restrictions imposed by the laws and by the existing safeguard measures.

The following areas have been identified: ‐ Nisida ‐ City of Naples; ‐ Astroni ‐ City of Pozzuoli; ‐Monte Nuovo ‐ City of Pozzuoli; ‐ Solfatara ‐ City of Pozzuoli; ‐ Punta Pennata ‐ City of Bacoli

One of the motives that it makes some “Park of the Fields Flegrei” an unicum in the European cultural geography, is the presence of the peculiar landscape and naturalistic scenery with an archaeological resource that distinguishes him for:QUALITY: that the experts judge equal to that of Rome;VARIETY examples of Greek archaeology and Roman ARCHAEOLOGY cohabit with monuments of epoch borbonica

GEOGRAPHICAL CONCENTRATION: in few more than 70 km²s they are present over 40 sites archaeological areas can be divided into:

surface underground scuba divers

In accordance with the Environmental ProtectionAct, businesses are required to pay for the emissionof gas and dust into the atmosphere, the dischargeof wastewater into the environment (water or soil),the extraction of water, and for the landfilling ofwaste.There is a system of environmental charges inPoland, which include charges for the emission ofgas and dust into the atmosphere, the extraction ofwater, the discharge of waste into water or soil, andfor the landfilling of waste. The charges are set outin the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 2008.Charges are set each year and published as anannouncement by the Minister of the Environment.Businesses are required to become familiar with andadhere to environmental protection regulations.

Legal requirements

The Waste Management Act requires that eachwaste holder should keep a qualitative andquantitative waste register in accordance withthe relevant waste catalogue and the list ofhazardous waste. This requirement does notapply to producers of municipal waste, naturalpersons or organisational units which are notcompanies and which use waste for their ownneeds.

Waste management

Irrespective of the requirements placed on waste holders by these legal acts, holders of aparticular waste type must also meet the requirements of the following specific acts:•Vehicle Recycling Act•Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act•Batteries and Accumulators Act•Packaging and Packaging Waste Act•Act on the responsibilities of businesses for the management of certain waste types and onproduct and deposit charges

The Act on Chemical Substances and Preparations introduces arequirement to provide information about dangerous substances put onthe market.

The Water Law sets out general rules for water protection, includingprohibitions or restrictions on the use of water. It also indicatesimplementing regulations that set out the quality standards of wastewaterdischarged to water or land.In addition, matters related to the discharge of industrial wastewater intothe sewage system are regulated by the Act on the Collective WaterSupply and Collective Wastewater Disposal.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and itssupplement, the Kyoto Protocol are the basic documents concerned withclimate protection in Poland.The Emissions Trading System covers laws, information and all mattersrelated to charges for the emission of greenhouse gases and othersubstances into the atmosphere.

Climate and the atmosphere

Noise protection

The Environmental Protection Act lays down the following requirements:The requirement to meet acoustic standards as set out in the Regulationof the Minister of the Environment.When acoustic standards are exceeded (LAeq D and LAeq N),environmental protection bodies issue a decision on the permissible soundlevel in the environment.IPPC permits are issued to installations together with an analysis of theacoustic environmental impact (LAeq D and LAeq N).

The Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection, voivodeship environmental inspectors aswell as employees of the Inspectorate for Environmental Protection (inspectors)authorised by these bodies carry out inspections on entities using the environment. Theinspection procedures of the Inspectorate for Environmental Protection are governed bythe Act on the Inspectorate for Environmental Protection.

Voivodeship marshals, starosts as well as commune heads and mayors can also checkwhether the environmental protection regulations are observed.Businesses are inspected according to the rules set out in the Freedom of Business Act.The duty of member states to maintain an appropriate system of official checks ofchemicals is implemented by Article 33 of the Act on chemical substances andpreparations as amended by the Act amending the act on chemical substances andpreparations and certain other acts.The Inspectorate for Environmental Protection checks whether entities that use theenvironment observe permissible sound levels as set out in the Regulation below as wellas in the decision of relevant bodies (decision on permissible noise levels or IPPC permit) ifsuch decisions have been issued.Businesses are free to go beyond the minimum environmental legal requirements at theirown initiative.

Inspections

Nowadays, there are 150 protected areas These protected areas are 19’35% of the totality of the

Andalusia’s surface There are 308 municipalities involved which means 40% of the

Andalusia’ s surface. Here we are going to see Almería’s places:

Protection Type Protection level National AlmeríaNATIONAL PARK High Ordesa (North) Sierra NevadaNATURAL PARK Medium Turia (Center) Cabo de gataNATURAL RESERVE Medium Las Palomas

(Island)Punta Entinas

NATURAL SOPT Low San Pedro Mountains (West)

Balsa del Sapo

PERI-URBAN AREA Minimun La Pulgosa (East) Castala

Protectiontype

Name Characteristics

Place Picture

NATIONAL PARK

High protection

level

SIERRA NEVADA

It takes in all those

representative areas of some of the main Spanish natural systems

whose conservation is

of general interest to the Spanish nation.

Almería -Granada

NATURAL PARK

Medium protection level

CABO DE GATA-NIJAR

The beautiful landscapes, the uniqueness of its environments, the singular wildlife and geomorphic formations all have aesthetic, ecological and educational values whose conservation must be highlighted.

Almería

Protectiontype

Name Characteristics Place Picture

NATURAL RESERVE

Medium protection

level

PUNTA ENTINAS

These natural spaces do not have the

environmental values mentioned in the

previous areas but also deserve special

protection. Almería

NATURAL SOPT

Lowprotection

level

BALSA DEL SAPO

Natural spots are declared by law by the AndalucianParliament because of their singular values, with the aim to look after their flora, fauna, geomorphologic constitution, special beauty, or other components with a very renown natural status.In the area of natural spots, certain traditional activities are permitted, as well as scientific, educational and public activities.

Almería

The Most İmportantEnvironment Legislation

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Environment Legislation

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The prohibition of periodic hunting1

Smoking prohibition in closed areas2

Waste materials in our environment and recycling studies at schools 3

The most important environment legislation


The prohibition of periodic hunting

The purpose of this work is to provide the progression and reproduction of extincted animals.Not only it is progression but also it means to protect the natural structure and to provide new habitat for new species .This application is followed carefully and the ones who disobeys the rules, are punished with money and even prison.The other purpose is to prevent illegal hunting.Especially,this situation is paid attention in reproduction terms of animals.


The prohibition of periodic hunting


Smoking prohibition in closed areas

A campaign that named ‘’air space without smoke’’has been started in our country.The aim is to provide more fresh air for people who particularly dontsmoke .The prohibiton that includes buses,cars and the other closed areas effected positively.Our country where more than 75 million people live,haslow ages of smoking and public transportation are fulled.ın spite of these bad conditions,we always support the people who want a healthy life and dont smoke. Finally ,we call ‘’air space without smoke’’


Smoking prohibition in closed areas


Waste materials in our environment and recycling studies at schools

SELKAP(this is a project about seperating waste materials from source) has been started in 2007.When we consider the pollution that package waste causes ,the importance of collecting these waste items is better understood.By recycling of waste materials ,-destroying of natural resources is prevented-the energy or water that is consumed for raw material production is reduced.-the materials that are plastic,glass,metal, paper,pasteboard etc..canbe reused instead of throwing away storage areas.



-According to regulations have been puslished in 06.11.2008,some responsibilities are given to consumers and city halls.Collecting and reusing package waste

that occured in public or private offices ,shopping centers ,hotels hospitals..apart from household waste,can be turned to a permanent process.This project is carried out by collecting boxes or moneyboxes in big sites,crowded and official places .The project is quite useful for economy and continued successfully.


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