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Preparatory Working Group for the first meeting of the Parties

The third meeting of the Preparatory Working Group took place on 8-10 July 2002 in Pula, Croatia. The Working Group finalized the preparations for the first meeting of the Parties, which took place in the Italian town of Lucca on 21-23 October 2002.

  • Third meeting
  • Second meeting
  • First meeting
Documents for the third meeting (not released in advance of the second meeting)
Document title   English Français Русский
Report of the third meeting (CEP/WG.5/2002/14) PDF ENG FRE RUS
List of participants of the third meeting DOC DOC    
Draft decision on work programme and budget for 2003-2005 (CEP/WG.5/2002/15)(ENGLISH ONLY) PDF ENG    
Draft provisional agenda, including annotated agenda, and list of documentation for the first meeting of the Parties (CEP/WG.5/2002/3)(ENGLISH ONLY) PDF ENG    
Draft format for the Aarhus Convention Implementation Report (CEP/WG.5/2002/9/Add.1) (ENGLISH ONLY) PDF ENG    
Procedures for the preparation, adoption and monitoring of word programme (CEP/WG.5/2002/5) (ENGLISH ONLY) PDF ENG    
Provisional agenda (CEP/WG.5/2002/13) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report of the second meeting (CEP/WG.5/2002/2) PDF ENG FRE RUS

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Languages: ENG – English; FRE – French; RUS – Russian
Documents available for downloading are indicated in blue typeface: ENG FRE RUS.

Second meeting

The second meeting of the Preparatory Working Group took place on 21-24 May 2002 in Geneva. An open-ended meeting of the Bureau was held on 28 February-1 March 2002 to prepare for this meeting.

Document title   English Français Русский
List of participants of the second meeting DOC ENG    
Provisional agenda (CEP/WG.5/2002/1)  PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report of the second meeting (CEP/WG.5/2002/2) Advance copy PDF ENG    
Financial Arrangements (CEP/WG.5/2002/4) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Establishment of an intersessional body PDF ENG FRE RUS
Draft decision: Clearing-house mechanism and Capacity-building Service (CEP/WG.5/2002/7) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Designation of Focal Points (CEP/WG.5/2002/8) PDF ENG ENG ENG
Elements for a draft decision on reporting requirements (CEP/WG.5/2002/9) PDF ENG ENG ENG
Draft decision: Promoting the use of electronic and other information tools (CEP/WG.5/2002/10) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Promoting effective access to justice (CEP/WG.5/2002/11) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Draft decision: Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (CEP/WG.5/2002/12) PDF ENG ENG ENG

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File formats: PDF file = PDF file; Word DOC = MS Word file
Languages: ENG – English; FRE – French; RUS – Russian
Documents available for downloading are indicated in blue typeface: ENG FRE RUS.

First meeting
Document title   English Français Русский
Report of the first meeting (CEP/WG.5/2001/2) PDF ENG FRE RUS
List of Participants PDF ENG    
Provisional agenda (CEP/WG.5/2001/1) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report on the first meeting of the Working Group on Compliance and Rules of Procedure (CEP/WG.5/AC.1/2001/2) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report of the second meeting of the Working Group on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2001/5) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Draft decision on the development of an instrument on pollutant release and transfer registers (CEP/WG.5/2001/3) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report on the first meeting of the Working Group on genetically modified organisms (CEP/WG.5/AC.3/2001/2) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report on the Workshop on Electronic Tools (CEP/WG.5/2001/4) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report on the Workshop on Access to Justice (CEP/WG.5/2001/5) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Report of the second meeting of the Working Group on Strategic Environmental Assessment (MP.EIA.AC.1/2001/6) PDF ENG FRE RUS
Public Participation in the context of UNECE Environmental Conventions - Report of the informal meeting (CEP/2001/6) PDF ENG FRE RUS

In the table above, links to documents appear using the following abbreviations and icons:

File formats: PDF file = PDF file; Word DOC = MS Word file
Languages: ENG – English; FRE – French; RUS – Russian
Documents available for downloading are indicated in blue typeface: ENG FRE RUS.