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Tunis, March 23, 2008 (TunisiaOnline) The 22nd edition of the much
celebrated Tamaghza mountain oasis festival , in the governorate of
Tozeur, was launched on Saturday by a parade, organized at the town's
entrance. The opening of the festival gathered together popular and
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The National Agency for Environmental Protection (ANPE) |
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to control
polluting discharges and the facilities where they are processed, to
ensure the management of solid industrial waste, and to promote
training,
education and research activities concerning the fight
against pollution. The ANPE undertakes preventive and remedial
actions. At the preventive level, it is responsible for carrying out
studies on the environmental impact of new projects, to establish
standards, to increase public awareness and to create a real
environmental culture in Tunisia. At the remedial level, the ANPE
intervenes in the control of pollution sources, the management of the
Anti-pollution Investment (FODEP), the follow-up of the national
network that oversees air quality, the granting of technical
agreement to antipollution projects as well as the necessary actions
to ensure that they benefit from the financial and fiscal advantages
foreseen by the law. The ANPE is also responsible for following-up
the implementation of Basel, Montreal and Barcelona Conventions.
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Created
in 1988, this Agency constitutes the main structure for the
conception and implementation of general policies concerning the
fight against pollution and environmental protection. Its main
responsibility is to propose ways to prevent risks and natural and
industrial disasters, to fight against all forms of environmental
deterioration, to deal with requests for authorization to undertake
investments that are likely to damage the environment,
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