Upcoming 21st
Committee meeting: 17-19 September 2008, Geneva (Switzerland)
Compliance Committee
Background
Article 15 of the Aarhus Convention on review of
compliance, requires the Meeting of the Parties
to establish arrangements for reviewing compliance
with the Convention. Following this obligation,
the Meeting of the Signatories established a Working
Group to prepare such a mechanism. At their
first meeting in October 2002 the Parties adopted
the decision I/7 on review of compliance (E
F
R)
and elected the first Compliance Committee.
At
their second meeting in May 2005 the Parties reviewed
the work undertaken by the Committee in the first
three years of its operation, including the Committee's
report and draft recommendations within the framework
of decisions on compliance issues (ECE/MP.PP/2005/13
and add. 1 to 5). The Parties adopted The
decision II/5 (E
F R) decision on general issues of compliance as well as decisions II/5a (E
F R) on compliance by Kazakhstan, II/5b (E
F R) on compliance by Ukriane and II/5c (E
F R) on compliance by Turkmenistan .
At their third meeting in June 2008, the Parties addressed the issue of compliance, inter alia on the basis of the Compliance Committee's report on general issues of compliance as well as its report with regard to compliance by several individual Parties.
The
compliance mechanism may be triggered in four ways:
(1)
a Party may make a submission
about compliance by another Party;
(2) a Party may make a submission
concerning its own compliance;
(3) the secretariat may make a referral
to the Committee;
(4) members of the public may make communications
concerning a Party's compliance with the convention.
In
addition, the Committee may examine compliance issues
on its own initiative and make recommendations;
prepare reports on compliance with or implementation
of the provisions of the Convention at the request
of the Meeting of the Parties; and monitor, assess
and facilitate the implementation of and compliance
with the reporting requirements under article 10,
paragraph 2, of the Convention.
In
the course of its work the Committee develops specific
details of its modus
operandi.
Committee
members
The
following persons
serve on the Committee in a personal capacity:
| Chairperson: |
to be elected |
| Vice-Chair: |
to be elected |
| Members: |
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Mr. Veit Koester (Denmark)
Ms. Svitlana Kravchenko (Ukraine)
Mr. Jerzy Jendroska
(Poland)
Mr. Jonas Ebbesson (Sweden)
Mr. Merab Barbakadze (Georgia)
Mr. Alexander Kodjabashev (Bulgaria)
Mr. Vadim Nee (Kazakhstan)
Mr. Gerhard Loibl (Austria)
Ms. Ellen Hay (Netherlands)
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Meetings
Information about the meetings 1-20 of the Compliance Committee and its work in the period of October 2002 - May 2008 is available from the archives.
The twenty-first meeting of the Committee will be held in Geneva on 17-19 September 2008. Among other things, the Committee is expected to review any new information with regard to communications ACCC/C/2007/21 (EC), ACCC/C/2007/22 (France), ACCC/C/2008/23 (UK) and ACCC/C/2008/24 (Spain). Meeting documents, as they become available, can be accessed here.
The twentieth meeting of the Committee was held on 8-10 June 2008 in Riga (Latvia). Among other things, the Committee discussed presentation of its report to the 3rd meeting of the Parties later that week, including updates on compliance by individual Parties. It discussed the outcome of the reporting by Parties on implementation. It also discussed in an open session preliminary admissibility of communication ACCC/C/2008/24 (Spain) and ACCC/C/2008/25 (Albania). Meeting documents, as they become available, can be accessed here.
Documents
| Basic Documents |
English |
Français |
Русский |
| Decision I/7 of the Meeting of the Parties |
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| Report of the first meeting of the Parties (ECE/MP.PP/2) |
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Decisions
adopted at the 3rd meeting of the Parties
regarding compliance with the Convention |
| |
English |
Francais |
Русский |
| Decision
III/6 on general issues of compliance (unedited advanced version) |
|
upcoming |
upcoming |
| Decision
III/6a on compliance by Albania (unedited advanced version) |
|
upcoming |
upcoming |
| Decision
III/6b on compliance by Armenia (unedited advanced version) |
|
upcoming |
upcoming |
| Decision III/6c on compliance by Kazakhstan (unedited advanced version) |
|
upcoming |
upcoming |
| Decision III/6d on compliance by Lithuania (unedited advanced version) |
|
upcoming |
upcoming |
| Decision III/6f on compliance by Turkmenistan (unedited advanced version) |
|
upcoming |
upcoming |
| Decision
III/6e on compliance by Ukraine (unedited advanced version) |
|
upcoming |
upcoming |
Decisions adopted at the 2nd meeting of the Parties regarding compliance with the Convention |
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English |
Francais |
Русский |
| Decision II/5 on general issues of compliance (ECE/MP.PP/2005/2/Add.6) |
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| Decision II/5a on compliance by Kazakhstan (ECE/MP.PP/2005/2/Add.7) |
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| Decision II/5b on compliance by Ukraine (ECE/MP.PP/2005/2/Add.8) |
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| Decision II/5c on compliance by Turkmenistan (ECE/MP.PP/2005/2/Add.9) |
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| Twenty-first meeting |
English |
Français |
Русский |
| Provisional agenda for the Twenty-first meeting (ECE/MP.PP/C.1/2008/5) |
upcoming |
upcoming |
upcoming |
| Registration form |
doc |
n/a |
n/a |
| Report (ECE/MP.PP/C.1/2008/4) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| Twentieth meeting |
English |
Français |
Русский |
| Provisional agenda for the Twentiethth meeting (ECE/MP.PP/C.1/2008/3) |
pdf |
pdf |
pdf |
| Registration form |
on MoP3 website |
on MoP3 website |
on MoP3 website |
| Report (ECE/MP.PP/C.1/2008/4) |
upcoming |
upcoming |
upcoming |