The strategic goal of MEPRD is to establish a hazardous waste management system, which would be safe for the environment and which would be at the national level, thus reducing the negative impact of hazardous waste upon the environment. This system should meet the following requirements after its complete implementation:

it should be sustainable, it must operate on the basis of the principle "the polluter pays", financing the work of the system with money collected from the producers of waste in return for the recycling or permanent disposal of the waste.
Taking into account the considerable costs of waste management, in the beginning costs can be partly financed from other financial resources. It is envisaged that in the beginning stage it will not be possible to include practically all companies, which produce hazardous waste because of the imperfection of the administrational institutions. HW management could be subsided. It is important to establish hazardous waste management system, which would be as cheap as possible for its user, in order not to create a situation when companies loose their competitiveness if the payment for the appropriate treatment of the produced waste is higher than actual possibilities to pay for this service.

 

there should be ensured information about the generation, transportation, recycling and permanent disposal of hazardous waste, exchange of this information among the institutions involved in the management of hazardous waste, decision making, as well as supervision of the implementation of those decisions.
Only in accordance with appropriate information it is possible to make proper decisions, thus ensuring the lowest costs for the users of this system. Taking into account the fact that hazardous waste management system costs are non-productive costs, the user of this system is interested in their reduction and consequently interested in providing information to the administrational institutions. Administrational organisations and managers of hazardous waste should be able to follow the waste stream from the producer to the final disposal to eliminate the possibility that these products, potentially harmful for the environment and man, would be wrongly treated or even worse, illegally dumped in the environment.

 

the system should encourage the introduction of cleaner technologies in manufacturing processes.
Using an adequate information, it is possible to reach a situation, when there are being made political decisions on the usage of different financial instruments and other means, which stimulate the introduction of cleaner technologies in the manufacturing processes and do not harm economical development.

With the collection and temporally storage of non-liquid agricultural chemicals, there could also be elaborated plans for the establishment of the main elements in the hazardous waste management system- ecologically safe systems of collection, transportation and recycling, as well as of a final disposal landfill. The following activities have been defined in terms of practical activities for the development of hazardous waste management infrastructure:

 

establishment of a site for the final disposal of hazardous waste;

 

creation of a national network of facilities for the collection and reloading of hazardous waste, linking this process to the system of municipal solid waste disposal facilities that is currently being established under the auspices of the "500- Programme", as well as a system for the delivery of hazardous waste to the recycling and storage companies must be established;

 

a system, which provides operative exchange of information and co-ordination of relevant institutions in the case of accidents, must be set up in order to manage the collection, neutralisation, recycling and disposal of hazardous waste, which is created during the accidents;

 

a national institutional system for the management of hazardous waste must be set up, involving state institutions and local governments in the process in order to ensure that proper permits for work with hazardous waste are issued, that companies, which work in this field, are inspected, and that mandatory requirements can be imposed;

 

adjustment of the specific hazardous waste (infectious waste, asbestos waste, port waste, etc.) management system, conducting technical and economic assessments in the introduction of this kind waste management.