tailieunhanh - Slovakia National Cleaner Production Centre

The Slovak National Cleaner Production Centre is composed of a non-profit organization and a business enterprise thereby enabling the centre to work effectively in delivering value-adding services to businesses and acting as a public advocate for Cleaner Production, while at the same time retaining the added value from close collaboration and joint efforts. CENTRE IN BRIEF The Slovak NCPC was established in 1994, originally as part of the National Industrial Association, and then as a separate not-for-profit independent civic association. The work of the Centre was supervised by a Steering Committee, comprised by representatives of the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry. | Slovakia National Cleaner Production Centre Case study in Good Organization Management and Governance Practices The Slovak National Cleaner Production Centre is composed of a non-profit organization and a business enterprise thereby enabling the centre to work effectively in delivering value-adding services to businesses and acting as a public advocate for Cleaner Production while at the same time retaining the added value from close collaboration and joint efforts. CENTRE IN BRIEF The Slovak NCPC was established in 1994 originally as part of the National Industrial Association and then as a separate not-for-profit independent civic association. The work of the Centre was supervised by a Steering Committee comprised by representatives of the Ministry of Environment the Ministry of Economy representatives from the industry association UNIDO UNEP the Slovak-Norwegian Cleaner Production programme members of civil society and other major donors. As the country s legal framework for NGOs changed it excluded government representatives to be members of organs of not-for-profit organizations. At the recommendation of auditors the legal form of the Organization was changed in 2002 to a private company Ltd. SCPC Ltd. owned by its employees. In 2008 the not-for-profit branch was re-established as PROVENTUS in the legal form of a public charity. SCPC and PROVENTUS operate closely together to deliver both commercial and not-for-profit services and are together commonly known as the Slovak National Cleaner Production Centre NCPC . The combined annual turnover of both organizations varied in recent years from EUR 350 000 to 600 000. The SCPC Ltd. is privately owned by former and present employees. The directors have been Mr. Anton Blazej until 1995 Ms. Viera Feckova from January 1996 until May 2009 and Mr. Frantisek Kvinta since then. As for PROVENTUS the chairman of the organization is Professor Marián Peciar of the Slovak Technical University and the Board members are Viera .