POLICY TOOLS
The instruments of environmental policy are state instruments for achieving goals in the environmental field. In practical environmental policy we can find a large number of instruments in particular countries. They are divided into administrative (sanctions) and economic instruments (a market orientated approach). The advantages and disadvantages of different types of instruments are discussed and their application in practice is evaluated ex-post.
Since 1997 the IEEP has systematically focused on elaborating analyses of economic environmental instruments’ effectiveness, primarily in the Czech Republic. The main topics in this field are green taxes and tradable permits.
The basic methodological approach was to evaluate the efficiency of environmental protection charges from the point of view of the administrative and invoked costs. A sample of the four most significant charges in the Czech Republic was chosen for the analysis it: air protection charges, water ...
The project undertakes the first comprehensive sectoral analysis of Europe's environmental tax reforms from an ex-post perspective. It uses modelling frameworks as well as case studies concerning the existing tax reforms which have taken place in the EU and Candidate countries.
The aim of the project is to elaborate a partial analysis which enables the environmental tax reform to be assessed for its impact on selected sectors of the national economy. The project utilizes model instruments used to evaluate the options for taxing energetic products.
An analysis of the taxes related to environmental protection including strategic and analytic documents of the EU. A discussion on the tax base, the mode of recycling tax yields, compensation that would lighten the social impact, the impact on competitiveness of Member States in particular, an ...
The project focuses on the analysis of economic effectiveness of charges as instruments for the environment protection in the Czech Republic throughout the evaluation of administrative and induced costs which are connected with the conduction of the instruments. Part of the project will be the ...
In the framework of this project the proposal of “ecological tax reform” (prepared by the Ministry of Environment) was analyzed according to particular tax types and their planned changes in the context of present developments in theEuropean Union and OECD countries. The proposed taxes impact ...
