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Geneva and Kiev, 23 May 2003
More Signatories
to the new UNECE Protocols as
Fifth Ministerial Conference "Environment
for Europe"
wraps up in Kiev
During the fifth Ministerial Conference
"Environment for Europe" taking place
in Kiev this week, two more countries,
Slovenia (22 May) and Croatia (23 May),
have signed the Protocol on Strategic
Environmental Assessment to the Convention
on Environmental Impact Assessment in
a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention)
and the Protocol on Pollutant Release
and Transfer Registers to the Convention
on Access to Information, Public Participation
in Decision-making and Access to Justice
in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention).
This brings the total
number of Signatories to the Protocol
on Strategic Environmental Assessment
to 36 and to the total number of Signatories
to the Protocol on Pollutant Release
and Transfer Registers to 37.
On 21 May, 22 countries
also signed the new Protocol on Civil
Liability and Damage Caused by the Transboundary
Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary
Waters to the Conventions on the Transboundary
Effects of Industrial Accidents and
on the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Waters and International Lakes.
For further information,
please contact:
Mr Kaj BARLUND,
Director
UNECE Environment and Human Settlements
Division
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)
22 917 23 70
Fax: +41 (0) 22 907 01 07
E-mail: [email protected]
Or the office
of the United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe at the Environment
for Europe Conference in Kiev
(phone : +380 44 206 81 10)
Ref: ECE/ENV/03/P17