Recommendations:
• review and revise, as needed, national, regional and local inspection and enforcement regimes.
Increase inspection and enforcement capacity at the local level and strengthen the mechanisms of
supervision and evaluation at the national level to ensure effective and efficient implementation;
• introduce a periodic permit renewal system, and consider introducing integrated pollution
prevention and control permits for large stationary sources at the national and regional levels;
• continue to increase the use of economic instruments (e.g. environmental charges, trading
mechanisms) to further internalise environmental externalities;
• further integrate environmental concerns (i.e. pollution, natural resources, nature concerns) at all
levels of land-use planning, and implement such land-use plans. Further use environmental impact
assessment for projects and expand the range of administrative plans subject to prior environmental
review;
• strengthen public-private partnerships and industry-driven environmental progress, including for
small and medium-sized subcontractors of large firms.