Ensuring Environmental Compliance
Trends and Good Practices
Despite progress in recent years, there is growing evidence that OECD countries are
not on track to reach some of their key environmental goals. This report examines
the strategies and instruments that governments use to ensure compliance with pollution
prevention and control regulations, particularly in the industrial sector. It compares
the compliance assurance systems of six OECD countries – Finland, France, Japan, the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States – as well as those of China
and Russia. The report provides policy makers, environmental regulators, and other
stakeholders with a comprehensive analysis of the design, management aspects, and
the main elements of government compliance and enforcement programmes. Focusing on
compliance promotion, compliance monitoring, and non-compliance response, it identifies
and compares good practices, sets them in context of different countries’ regulatory
cultures and highlights the key international trends.
Published on May 19, 2009Also available in: French, Chinese