Background
Component 3 of UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II
Project aims at improving ecos...
Background
Component 3 of UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II
Project aims at improving ecosystem carrying capacity with respect to
regulating and cultural services. In Outcome 3.3 of Component 3 entitled
“Strengthened legal and regulatory processes to control pollution”, the project will support several Activities leading to four project targets, to be
concise,1) regional guidelines for micro-plastics monitoring and assessment; 2) new incentives and measures
adopted in coastal cities in support of recycling economy; 3) new provincial
regulations to improve water quality; and 4) new profitable businesses
developed from waste reuse and recycling.
As one of
the proposed activities, Activity One
may be further broken into three sub-activities which are as follows: 1) review
of policies and regulations in China and RO
Korea dealing with pollution control, 2) assess compliance with UNCLOs, the
Future We Want, multi-lateral environmental agreements and programmes ratified
by PR China, and 3) prioritize legal and regulatory reforms at domestic level.
Satisfactory accomplishment of sub-activity one provides good reference for
achieving the four project targets. Drafting new guidelines and regulations,
adopting new incentives and measures, and developing new green profitable
businesses should all be conducted based on the current legal and regulatory
framework. On the other hand, ideas, norms, plans and/or techniques etc.
arising from the other four Activities may provide valuable feedback to the
process of conceiving legal and regulatory reforms. Review of current policies
and regulations on pollution control can lead to not only a library for
policy-makers for informed decisions but also to precisely find their inherent
inconsistencies and gaps including those as described in SAP for YSLME and
propose targeted solutions. Compliance assessment with applicable
agreements/programmes establishes a two-way channel by which domestic
regulations and policies can be analyzed and improved to be compliant with
international or regional standards and best domestic practices may be
identified and populated into related agreements/programmes in future
negotiations. All in all, Activity One is indispensable for Outcome 3.3 and
thus Component 3. In
this context, the project plans a consultancy with the following terms of reference (TOR).
Objectives
The objective underlying the proposed
consultancy is to enhance the
regulating services of YSLME
in particular by strengthening the legal and
regulatory processes to control pollution through, inter alia, improving
pollution-concerned legal and policy system at domestic level by ontology
analysis and international/regional compliant comparative assessment taking
into account the principles and approaches of YSLME-based integrated coastal
and marine management.
Expected Outputs
The
consultant is expected to deliver the following results:
- An inventory of domestic laws/regulations/policies
dealing with pollution control in PR China and RO Korea
- An inventory of international/regional environment agreements/programmes
effective for PR China and RO Korea with
respect to pollution control
- An analysis report concerning
inconsistencies and gaps of domestic laws/regulations/policies dealing with
pollution control in PR China and compliance assessment with relevant
environment agreements/programmes, together with recommendations on legal and
regulatory reforms