The main purposes of the project are to assist the EPA (Environmental Protection Administration) to enhance its project implementation quality and to promote its international exchanges. This project includes various technical and advisory operations, such as data gathering, the arrangement of meetings (including the reception of guests), the training plan of personnel, opinion polls, etc. In the project, the main tasks that have been accomplished comprise: (1) Assistance provided to the EPA to carry out the 2003 project management and the bilateral meeting between the ROC and the US (2) The gathering of the information regarding the system of project entrustment, the quality control of projects entrusted by the EPA, technology transfer and technology verification; also, the characteristics of these projects have been gathered and studied so as to assess the feasibility of the employment of them in the project management implemented by the EPA (3) Assisting the ISEF to hold “environmental forensic technology workshop” in the country (4) Enhancing the communication between the EPA and the foreign companies located in the country; carrying out an opinion survey on the foreign companies located in the country (5) Assisting the EPA in the planning and holding of training sessions on the topics relating to the CTE (Committee of Trade Environment) of the WTO (6) Assisting the EPA in the editing and translation of documents. The aforementioned international meeting and workshop and the training sessions accomplished in that this project provided the experts and scholars in the environmental protection field with the information of state-of-the-art technologies and the opportunities of technological exchanges and hence greatly enhanced the capability in environmental protection technologies in the country.

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