Regional workshop in Greece, to promote the use of updated modeling tools and inspection methods

This regional capacity building workshop for effective monitoring, compliance/ inspection implementation and enforcement of environmental legislation including a tool correlating Emission Limit Values (ELV) and Environment Quality Standard (EQS) will be held in Athens, Greece involving experts from 22 Mediterranean countries. The first day of the workshop, participants will be trained on the ELV - EQS tool set by UNEPMAP, as a way to bridge the LBS Protocol of the Barcelona Convention and the Ecosystem Approach related Good Environment Status and Targets. The two remaining days will be dedicated to enhance environmental inspectorate, focusing on the implementation and enforcement of environmental law. The focus will be on improving environmental monitoring, integrated planning/control, and inspection, as well as enhancing further collaboration among entities involved in environmental monitoring and inspection. This activity falls within the UNEPMAP Programme of Work under thematic priority on pollution reduction and control. It is also a MedPartnership activity under component 2.1 Facilitation of policy and legislation reforms for pollution reduction, facilitated by MEDPOL.