CONTENTS
 Objectives
 View Current Proposals
 Work to Date
 Future Work Plan
 Contact Points

Objectives
This Focus Area on Compliance Mechanisms provides a forum for experts and officials from the government, private sector, and NGOs to collaboratively provide input to the process of developing and implementing mechanisms that could lead to more robust policy implementation tools. These tools will seek to assist programme managers or national regulators and enforcers to more reliably manage the schemes they administer to promote adoption of CFLs, and to enhance the protection of the scheme through enhanced enforcement actions at the local, national and international levels.

The objectives of the working group on Compliance Mechanisms is to:

 to establish a framework to assist in the creation, implementation, management and enforcement of policy actions and to develop a series of sample protocols to demonstrate the implementation of that framework
 to establish a marking system that reflects the agreed common set of performance tiers and will enable enforcement agents to easily identify the relative claimed performance of a specific product and to reach consensus on this marking system with a number of market stakeholders
  to determine whether mechanisms for recording and accessing data on individual products performance are required, and to reach consensus on these mechanisms with a number of market stakeholders
 to establish mechanisms to facilitate trans-jurisdiction mutual recognition and to reach consensus on these mechanisms with a number of market stakeholders and
 to establish systems for the sharing of compliance/enforcement activities and data and reach consensus on this systems with a number of market stakeholders

View Current Proposals
Review and Comment on Proposals. The compliance framework currently envisaged by the CFLI is an incremental “staircase” approach, ie, it is has been designed such that basic compliance actions can be adopted irrespective of the current knowledge base or financial capacity of programme managers or national/international enforcers and regulators. However, the framework is designed such that as additional resources become available, more robust compliance actions can be adopted. The proposed framework addresses several different elements of compliance: Initial Product Access to the Initiative; Supervision and Administration; and Data Exchange. Further, the first of the compliance framework protocols (for initial scheme entry) has been completed in draft form and is available for comment. To review and comment on the current proposals, please click here

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Work to Date
A number of iterations have taken place as need for outputs from the compliance group has crystallised. However, solid outputs are now available which define the overall structure of the compliance support being developed by the CFLI (the framework). Further, the first of three draft protocols (Initial Entry Protocol) has been developed to assist in specifying programme/scheme requirements and the mechanisms for product qualification. Two further draft protocols to assist with scheme management, maintenance and enforcement; and with the sharing of scheme data to strengthen enforcement activities and potentially assist with joint recognition will be developed in the near future.

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Future Work Plan
Within the next month (by the end of July) two further draft protocols will be developed to assist with scheme management, maintenance and enforcement; and with the sharing of scheme data to strengthen enforcement activities and potentially assist with joint recognition will be developed in the near future. It is anticipated that these will go through several revision stages with final outcomes presented at the next CFLI Stakeholder forum, provisionally scheduled for November 2007 in India.

The following timeline details planned activities over the following few months:

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Contact Points
Facilitator: Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships, USA e-mail: HingeA@aol.com
Participants: Contributions to the Focus Area are received from a range of organisations in the CFL arena, and all are listed in the CFL Initiative Page.

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