Eastern Europe subregion
Capacity-building workshop based on results of pilot projects (Convention/ Protocol)

Chisinau, November 2008

Workshop in Chisinau, 5-7 November 2008 (carried forward from pervious inter-sessional period).

Pilot project

• Start-up workshop for pilot implementation project based on transboundary EIA of the Neman River hydroelectric power plant, downstream of Grodno (Belarus), 22-23 June 2009, Minsk
• Public hearing, Druskininkai (Lithuania), 25 September 2009
• Seminar on transboundary EIA of the Neman River hydroelectric power plant, 15-16 July 2010, Minsk (59 participants)
• Mid-term workshop, Minsk, 5 November 2010
• Final subregional conference, Minsk, 3 December 2010
• Provincial seminar, Grodno (Belarus), 27-28 December 2010

Further information available in Russian on the website  of the joint EU and UNDP project to support environment and sustainable development in Belarus.

Central Asia subregion
(a) Capacity-building workshop based on results of pilot projects (Convention/Protocol)
(b) Capacity-building workshop

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

(b) Workshop on legal implementation of the Espoo Convention in Tajikistan, 22-23 July 2010.

Caucasus subregion Capacity-building workshop (Convention/Protocol)

Subregional workshop, Tbilisi, 24-25 May 2011.

Black Sea subregionSeminar on EIA of large energy project in the subregion

Carried out within a Workshop on SEA and EIA Implementation in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, held at Szentendre (Hungary) (Regional Environmental Centre for Central & Eastern Europe: REC-CEE ), 30 November - 1 December 2010.

South-Eastern Europe subregion
Holding meeting, including on the relationship between EIA and SEA

Subregional workshop, including the relationship between EIA and SEA, Koprivshtitsa (Bulgaria), 17-19 November 2008

Additional : Subregional workshop on raising awareness of application of the Espoo Convention, Podgorica, 15-16 December 2009

See also Ministry for Spatial Planning and Environment of Montenegro

Mediterranean subregion
(a) Workshop in Morocco on practical application of the Convention in the subregion

(b) Follow-up workshop on a specific topic

The Working Group on EIA requested that Tunisia be asked to host the first workshop. Contact was made with the Minister of the Environment & Sustainable Development of Tunisia. The workshop was held 20-21 April 2010 at CITET, Tunis.

The second workshop was carried forward into the new intersessional period (2011-2014).

Baltic Sea subregion Holding two meetings, including on climate change in EIA and SEA, biodiversity, cumulative impacts, marine ecosystems, protected marine areas, marine spatial planning, transboundary EIAs, public participation, post-project analysis, access to justice, application of transboundary SEA

1st meeting: 22-23 October 2009, Vilnius

2nd meeting: 31 March - 1 April 2011, Espoo (Finland)