7.2 Evaluating Germany’s output of consent

T he dimensions of evaluating the output of licensing the enterprise using solid waste

Other independent variants

Other domestic policies: transportation policy

As a part of obligatory document, movement document has to accompany each shipment of waste as 1) announcement of the shipment; 2) acknowledge of receipt; 3) confirmation of disposal or recovery. And “Even if a German authority gives its consent without conditions to a waste shipment, the German regulations concerning transport and waste disposal are directly applicable to the persons concerned, to whom these regulations are addressed”.³⁶ These indicate the important meaning of transportation policies toward our topic policy.

In many evaluative statements issued by the European Environment Agency,³⁷there are some data concerning the illegal shipments of hazardous waste, these are the evaluative statements focusing on the effects of policy, that is, the question of “doing the right thing?”

7.3. Comparative Studies

There are evaluative statements on the policies of both China and Germany. The evaluative statement of the policy of the former country tends to focus on outputs, while that of the latter country’s policy on effects.

8. Conclusion

From the above analysis, we can conclude that, in China and Germany, the policies of waste importation are based on different political definition of the problem at the stage of agenda setting, which leads to different causal hypothesis and intervention hypothesis. Besides, there are also many differences between the two countries’ policies at the stage of policy programming, policy implementation as well as policy evaluation. We propose some initial thoughts to explain these differences: the different institutional environment, such as the different political systems, the different level of waste technologies, and the different composition of industries. However, there is still a large room for further exploring the question about how different institutions of the two countries leads to the differences in the policies of waste importation. Moreover, due to the authors’ limited language ability of German, the policy analysis on German’s part is still very incomplete. This can be improved by future studies conducted by other researchers.

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