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Inquiry Procedure
Article 3 and Appendix IV of the Espoo Convention provide an inquiry procedure. Also relevant is paragraph 15 of the appendix to decision III/2 ("Where a matter is being considered under an inquiry procedure under Article 3, paragraph 7, of the Convention, that matter may not be the subject of a submission under this decision.").
The fourth meeting of the Parties adopted a decision on the inquiry procedure, further to a note by the secretariat on the first inquiry procedure, considered by the Working Group on EIA. |
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Inquiry Commission (photographs below) |
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Subject matter |
 Danube-Black Sea Deep Water Navigation Canal in the Ukrainian Sector of the Danube Delta
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Date of notification |
19 August 2004 |
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Requesting party |
Romania
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. No. E VI-I/5091) |
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Other party |
Ukraine |
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Membership of the inquiry commission |
President: Prof. Joost Terwindt, Emeritus Professor in Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Romania: Dr. Mircea Staras, Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea, Romania
Ukraine: Dr. Lyudmyla Anishchenko, Ukrainian Research Institute of Ecological Problems, Kharkiv, Ukraine |
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Status |
First (preparatory) meeting, 26 January 2005, Geneva.
Second (preparatory) meeting, 24 February 2005, Geneva.
Meeting, 28 October 2005, Geneva.
Meeting, 16 December 2005, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Site visit, 8-13 May 2006, Romania & Ukraine.
Final meeting, 30 (p.m.)-31 May 2006, Geneva.
Transmission of the Inquiry Commission's opinion to the parties to the inquiry procedure and to the secretariat, 10 July 2006, Geneva. |
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Final opinion |
Final Report  (1.7 MBytes):
Unanimous conclusion that there will likely be a significant adverse transboundary impact.
See also press releases. |
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Appendices: |
Final reports by specialist experts
Contributions by the Members of the Commission
Dr Mircea Staras
- Rom. 1 (1.6MB) Documentation on the likely significant transboundary impact of the Ukrainian Deep-water Navigation Canal Danube-Black Sea in the context of ESPOO Convention, 1991.
February, 2005
- Rom. 2 Additional information requested for the third meeting of the Inquiry Commission on the likely significant transboundary impact of the Ukrainian Deep-water Navigation Canal
Danube-Black Sea in the context of ESPOO Convention, 1991. October, 2005
- Rom. 3 Comments to Annexes no. 15-28, presented by the Ukrainian expert at the third meeting of
the Inquiry Commission on the likely significant transboundary impact of the Ukrainian Deep-Water Navigation Canal Danube-Black Sea in the context of ESPOO Convention, 1991. December 2005
- Rom. 4 Comments on documentation presented by Ukrainian expert at 4th meeting of the Inquiry Commission (16 Dec. 2005)
Dr Lyudmyla Anischenko
Ukr. 1 The assessment of transboundary impact of the navigation route reopening in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, February 2005
Ukr. 2, October 2005
Ukr. 3, December 2005
Ukr. 4, April 2006
Ukr. 5, May-June 2006
Ukr. 6 Report on Scientific Research Work: "Environmental Assessment (EA) within the framework of the project "Creation of the Danube – the Black Sea deep-water navigable passage in the Ukrainian part of the delta. Stage 1 ". Ministry of Environment Protection of Ukraine. Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2003 |
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Additional information |
 Report of the Joint Mission of the Expert Team of the European Commission and International Conventions to the "Bystroe project" in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta (6-8 October 2004) |
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Submission of the opinion of the Inquiry Commission, 10 July 2006, Geneva. From left: Deputy
Permanent Representative of Romania, Monika Linn (UNECE), Kaj Barlund (UNECE), UNECE Executive
Secretary Marek Belka, Ambassador of Ukraine and Joost Terwindt (President of the Inquiry Commission). |
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Meeting with NGOs in Bucharest, May 2006. From left: Mircea Staras (Romania), Wiek Schrage (UNECE secretariat), Joost Terwindt (President), Liudmila Anishchenko (Ukraine) and interpreter. |
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Meeting with NGOs in Bucharest, May 2006.
Both photographs courtesy Eco-Counselling Centre, Galati (Romania). |
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