Second meeting of the Parties
Extraordinary
meeting of the Parties
First meeting of the
Parties
Preparatory
Working Group for the first meeting of Parties
Meetings
of Signatories
First meeting
of the Parties
The
first meeting of the Parties to the Convention took
place on 21-23 October 2002 in the town of
Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. The meeting represented
the culmination of a four-year preparatory process
involving two meetings of Signatories
and three meetings of a preparatory
Working Group.
The High-level Segment of the Meeting of the Parties
The high-level segment took place on the first day
of the meeting and was attended by more than twenty
European Ministers and vice-Ministers for the environment,
representing Parties as well as Signatories to the
Convention. Most of them delivered a general statement
addressing inter alia the implementation and application
of the Convention in their countries. Written statements
are available
in the languages in which they were submitted to
the secretariat.
The
high-level segment of the Meeting culminated in
the uanimous adoption of the Lucca Declaration
(E
F
R).
Documents for the Meeting
The Meeting adopted a number of decisions,
which had been prepared by the Working Group. Most
of the decisions were adopted without any amendments
but changes were made to a few of them. The Meeting
also considered some background documents. All these
documents as well as agenda and report of the meeting
are available.
ECO
Conference
The European ECO Forum organized an International
Eco-Conference "Public Participation: The Road
From Words To Practice!" on 19-20 October 2002
in Hotel Carignano, in Carignano-Lucca, Italy. The
ECO Conference adopted the Carignano-Lucca
Declaration and presented it to the Meeting
of the Parties.