Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), Executive Yuan, Taiwan is the governmental sector in charge of the formulation of national environmental policies, laws and regulations. The Sustainable Science & Technology Office (SSTO) affiliated to Administrator is responsible for the administration and promotion of various environmental technology programs. Thus through the SSTO’s effective management of technology programs, feasible technologies can be provided for the execution of the environmental policies made by EPA.
The annual goal of this year’s “Quality Management for Taiwan EPA’s Projects in Year 2007” is to assist EPA to draft it’s technology plan for FY-2009 and to outline a 4-years framework program; carry out the management of quality improvement for technology and administrative programs for FY-2007; and to expand upon the achievements of the EPA’s technology and administrative programs. Through the integration of technology and administrative programs, correlating of quality improvement meetings, appraisals and seminars of results achieved, together with the spreading of technological successes, management of EPA technology and administrative programs can be further upgraded, and the following goals can also be achieved.
To fulfil these goals, research on future environmental protection technological and administrative programs is necessary. Through recognising EU R&D management and program outlines; along with conclusions of meetings gathering the 6 issues, which are environmental biotechnologies, environmental technology information consulting services, green chemistry, EU views on sustainable development, nanotechnology and energy technologies, will provide our nation with concrete suggestions on short term and intermediate (for FY-2009 and proceeding 4-years) for environmental technologies and provide reference to various professional EPA units.
Besides, revision of the “Guideline of the Management of EPA Commissioned Research Programs” is also considered. The guideline is for compiling, investigating, application and examining of the results with relevant regulations, resulting in effective management to ensure concrete results emerge. The quality of program management will be raised through handling all results of 5 symposiums held between the EPA and contracted consulting firms. Through the discussion of the participants, specific achievements of various groups’ programs are highlighted. Meanwhile, the meanings of KPI were discussed by various program coordinators, and real contributions by the programs on environmental administration are to be uncovered by reports.
Third, expand on the successes of administrative programs is required. Through building the database on EPA technology programs between 1997 and 2006 and the funds for air pollution from 2002 to 2006, 200 CDs had been circulated to various departments. The achievements of the databases have been put online to enable the online users to query and download, and therefore to achieve the objective of spreading the achievements of the administrative plans.
Moreover, through the sponsoring of three conferences and appraisals relating the successes of technology programs, opinions focussing on the various directions of the EPA technology programs grouping together with evaluation questionnaires filled by committee members, and the results gathered will sum up the substantial suggestions to provide the EPA a reference for future planning.
