On the occasion of the fifth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" in Kiev, Ukraine, 22 countries signed the new Protocol on Civil Liability and Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the UNECE Conventions on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Waters and International Lakes.
These countries are:
Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
For further information, please contact:
Mr Rainer ENDERLEIN
UNECE Environment and Human Settlements Division
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 23 73 or +41 (0) 22 917 24 63
Fax: +41 (0) 22 907 01 07
E-mail: rainer.enderlein@unece.org
francesca.bernardini@unece.org
Mr Sergiusz LUDWICZAK
UNECE Environment and Human Settlements Division
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 31 74
Fax: +41 (0) 22 907 01 07
E-mail: sergiusz.ludwiczak@unece.org
Web site: http://www.unece.org/env/civil-liability/welcome.html
Ref; ECE/ENV/04/P15
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Information Unit
Palais des Nations,
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 (0) 22 917 44 44
Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 05 05
Email: info.ece@unece.org
Reproduction is permitted provided that the source is acknowledged.
