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AARHUS CONVENTION

Convention on Access to Information,
Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice
in Environmental Matters

Introduction
Capacity-building activities and donor invitation
Content of the Protocol
Documents and meetings
International PRTR Coordinating Group
Side events and workshops
Text of the Protocol
Working Group on PRTRs

Guidance to implementation of the Protocol on PRTRs

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Guidance on Implementation of the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (revised 2008 submission)

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Cover art

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Capacity-building activities and proposals

The first meeting of the Working Group, held on 16-18 February 2004, requested that UNECE, UNEP, UNITAR, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) and any other organizations involved in PRTR capacity-building work provide the secretariat with a list of their organizations' capacity-building projects related to PRTRs. Recipient countries were also invited to present ideas and proposals that are focused on the Protocol to the secretariat. The secretariat was asked to compile a consolidated list of organizations' and recipient countries' capacity-building projects and their ideas and proposals focused on the Protocol.

ENVSEC Initiative

At the fourth meeting of the Working Group (14-16 February 2007), the secretariat circulated a draft of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) concept proposal, "Building capacity for environmental monitoring and reporting by enterprises and public authorities in EECCA and SEE [Western Balkan] countries." The final ENVSEC proposal will be presented to the ENVSEC Management Committee for consideration at the Committee's September 2007 meeting.

Organizations wishing to engage in PRTR capacity-building are invited to submit sub-regional or national ENVSEC project proposals (fiche) to the UNECE secretariat. These will be collected, reviewed by the secretariat and then submitted to ENVSEC as one package.

Please submit ENVSEC project fiche to michael.stanley-jones@unece.org by 31 August 2007 at the latest.

Table of capacity-building activities and proposals

Title	English	French	Russian
Capacity-building activities matrix (January 2007)	pdf	pdf	pdf
Invitation to donors to support framework programme for PRTR capacity-building	pdf
ENVSEC concept proposal: "Building capacity for environmental monitoring and reporting by enterprises and public authorities in EECCA and Western Balkan countries" (FINAL)
ENVSEC proposal: "Developing a National Pollutant and Release Transfer Register (PRTR) and Strengthening Community Right-to-Know in Azerbaijan and Belarus"
Organization of the National Workshop on Obligations and Rights under the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Aarhus Convention in Republic of Armenia (ENVSEC Initiative)
Cover letter to implementation proposal submitted by State Committee for Environmental Protection and Forestry of the Republic of Tajikistan (dated 03.04.06)	pdf		pdf
"Pilot project for development of PRTR system in Kazakhstan" submitted by CAREC
Proposal: "Programme for Implementation of the Protocol on PRTRs in Tajikistan and Central Asia" submitted by State Committee for Environmental Protection and Forestry of the Republic of Tajikistan	word
Proposal "Building public capacity in EECCA countries..." submitted by “Greenwomen” (Kazakhstan) and “Eco-Accord” Sustainable Development Center (Russian Federation)	word
English language summary of the proposal "For a PRTR in Mexico from the revised full proposal "Por un RETC para Mexico" (in Spanish - pdf)	pdf
Proposal: "Organization of the National Workshop on Obligations and Rights under the Protocol on PRTRs to the Aarhus Convention in Republic of Armenia", submitted by the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia and Aarhus Centre in Yerevan, Armenia to OSCE Armenia	word
Needs of the Republic of Armenia for implementation of the Protocol on PRTRs	pdf

Guidance to implementation of the Protocol on PRTRs

Title	English	French	Russian
Guidance on Implementation of the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (revised 2008 submission)	pdf
Cover art	pdf