National stakeholder dialogue workshop: Economic instruments for managing environmentally harmful products in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (OECD)
Topic: Creating market incentives for greener products
The objective of the meeting is to promote economic instruments such as taxes and extended producer responsibility for the management of environmentally harmful products in Azerbaijan. It includes a brief presentation of the policy manual “Creating Market Incentives for Greener Products”, followed by discussion on environmentally related product taxes in Azerbaijan as well as the country’s planned use of extended producer responsibility for the management of waste products. This workshop will be held back-to-back to the national stakeholder dialogue workshop related to "Promoting better environmental performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Azerbaijan" scheduled for 21 May 2015 starting at 9h30.