Activities under the Espoo EIA Convention and its Protocol on SEA
(period between 5th and 6th Meetings of the Parties, 2011-2014)
Subregional cooperation and capacity-building to strengthen contacts between the Parties and others, including States outside the UNECE region.
See also the previous activity relating to subregional cooperation and capacity development:
Sub-activity | Results |
South-Eastern Europe subregion | |
Workshop(s) on implementation of the Convention, Protocol and Bucharest Agreement in the subregion. | Planned, lead country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, with support of the secretariat and UNEP. |
Mediterranean subregion, including Adriatic Sea | |
Workshop in France on practical application of the Convention on the basis of the results in the previous workshops | Planned for 2012, lead country: France, in collaboration with Spain. |
Baltic Sea subregion | |
Holding at least two meetings on issues agreed (to be specified prior to the meetings) | Held: (a) Seminar on 27–28 October 2011 in Sopot, Poland (b) Seminar on 20-21 September 2012, Tallinn, Estonia Planned: (c) Seminar in autumn 2013, Rostock, Germany Lead countries: Sweden, Poland, Germany, Estonia. |
Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia | |
Two pilot transboundary EIAs, including seminars prior and during the pilot projects | Planned: (a) Belarus with Ukraine (post-project analysis) in 2013 (b) Kyrgyzstan with Kazakhstan in 2012 |
Subregional workshop for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia on EIA in the context of climate change, biodiversity, desertification (forming platform of collaboration with other environmental treaties) | Planned, lead country: Kazakhstan |
Seminars for all countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia for the exchange of information, legislation and good practice between all States | Planned, lead countries: (a) Georgia (2013) (b) Ukraine (2012) (c) Belarus (2012) |
Conference on climate change and EIA | Planned for 2012, lead country: Republic of Moldova, with the support of the secretariat |
Conference “Silk Road: development and environmental protection in EIA” | Planned for 2013, lead country: Uzbekistan |
