Central Asia

Activities in Central Asia

	Convention (& amendments)	Protocol
Kazakhstan	Party
Kyrgyzstan	Party
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

This page presents information on activities under the Espoo Convention focused on Central Asia, for the period between the third and fourth sessions of the Meeting of the Parties (2004-2008):

Workshops in the period between the fourth and fifth sessions of the Meeting of the Parties (2008-2011)

Subregional workshop, presenting results of Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan pilot project, 25-27 March 2009, Bishkek

Seminar on international water law and negotiations of mutually beneficial multilateral water agreements, 19-21 April 2009, Almaty (Kazakhstan)

Workshop on "Capacity Development on EIA in Central Asia", Baku and Salyan (Azerbaijan), 16-18 June 2010

Capacity-building workshop: 2-day national seminar on legal implementation of the Espoo Convention in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 22-23 July 2010

UNECE Water Convention and its role in international law, including a session on building synergies with other legal instruments, Almaty, 18-19 October 2010

Workshop on "Capacity Development on EIA in Central Asia", Ashgabat (postponed)

Workshop on legal implementation of the Espoo Convention in Tajikistan, March/April 2010

Central Asia guidelines

Workplan Activity

Preparation and dissemination of guidance - drafting of guidance on the practical application of the Convention for specific needs of the subregion (for cases of transboundary EIA in relation to, inter alia, transboundary watercourses) by a consultant.

Document Title	ENG	FRE	RUS
Guidance, as presented to the Working Group on EIA and noted by the 4th Meeting of the Parties ECE/MP.EIA/WG.1/2007/6	ENG	FRE	RUS

Earlier draft:

	Revised draft Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context for Central Asian Countries	ENG	RUS
	Annexes:
1	Text of Espoo Convention	ENG	RUS
		ENG	RUS
2	Template of Notification Letter	ENG	RUS
3	Guidance on Public Participation in EIA in a Transboundary Context	ENG	RUS
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4	Methodological aspects of environmental and socio-economic impact assessment	ENG	RUS
5	Guidance on the Practical Application of the Espoo Convention	ENG	RUS
		ENG	RUS
6	Template of EIA statement	ENG	RUS
7	Exemplary activity for procedure of post-project analysis	ENG	RUS
8	Guidance on subregional cooperation	ENG	RUS
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9	Conclusions of the Sub-regional Workshop	ENG	RUS

Carrying-out of workshop in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) to finalize the guidance.

Conclusions of workshop on guidance for capacity building in Central Asia region, Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan), 5-7 October 2004

Presentation made on 29 April 2005

Active dissemination of the guidance in the participating countries (through, for example, national workshops).

National workshops in:

Kyrgyzstan (28 January 2005)
Tajikistan (18 February 2005)
Uzbekistan (25 February 2005)
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan

Training course in transboundary EIA - methodology

First training workshop held in Tajikistan, 19-21 Febraury 2007 with the support from Switzerland.

Second workshop expected in Kazakhstan in summer 2007.

Third expected in Kyrgyzstan in autumn 2007.

Fourth in Azerbaijan, 16-18 June 2010.

Fifth in Uzbekistan, 30 June - 2 July 2011.

Sixth due in Turkmenistan

Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan Pilot Study

Document Title	ENG	RUS
Project report	ENG	RUS
OSCE news feature	ENG	-

Jeroy gold and copper mine in the Talas River basin (Kyrgyzstan)

A transboundary EIA pilot project involving Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan was initiated, with kick-off seminar held 26-27 January 2006, Bishkek.

The project was funded with support from the Government of Norway and was managed by the OSCE and UNECE in cooperation with the State Agency on Environmental Protection and Forestry of the Kyrgyz Republic.

A public hearing with more than 100 participants was held 20 March 2007. The cooperation between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan was working well.

In addition to the implementation of the pilot EIA, the two countries also had an opportunity to revise their EIA procedures within the project. A regional conference, 25-27 March 2009, finalized the project: Subregional workshop, presenting results of Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan pilot project,