Experiences in new EU Accession Countries

Waste management in modern societies is passing through several development stages. However, the transition of waste management from a pure disposal management over a more or less controlled waste management towards a resource efficient material flow management offers great challenges for all stakeholders involved in the process.

After the collapse of the communist regime and the political and economic opening of the Central and South-Eastern European reform, countries there has been a major backlog in the modernization of waste management. This offered the opportunity for international companies to extend their business to these new markets with technologies and services already used in their home markets. Because of their similar historical development within a communist system several typical characteristics can be identified, that are met by international waste management companies in their business practice within these countries. The cooperation of private waste management companies with the public authority of these former communist countries was a major challenge for both sides. Especially in the countries Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia that joined the EU within the last years this clash of different systems can still be felt today.

Saubermacher has made the step into the reform countries immediately after the political changes of the early nineties and can therefore rely on almost 25 years of practical experience. Each country had its own peculiarities, which require different measures and consequences by the management depending on timing and specific local conditions. Nevertheless, the points raised in this paper can be described as typical for the transition countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe. These peculiarities can still be found today, especially in the three discussed countries Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia that entered the European Union in 2007, respectively in 2013.



Copyright: © Thomé-Kozmiensky Verlag GmbH
Quelle: Waste Management, Volume 4 (November 2014)
Seiten: 11
Preis: € 0,00
Autor: Gerhard Ziehenberger
Dipl.-Ing. Michaela Heigl
Richard Dornauer
Mag. Dr. Hannes Klampfl-Pernold
 
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