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Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention, 4th session
19 - 21 May 2008
Bucharest
 | The fourth meeting of the Parties was held at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest (Romania) on 19-21 May 2008. Press releases ... more » Photographs from the meeting ... more » |
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Monday | 09:00-14:00 | Bureau meeting / EU coordination / NGO coordination |
| Lunch | |
Fourth Meeting of the Parties | ||
First general segment | 15:00-18:00 | Opening |
19:00 | Welcome cocktail | |
Tuesday | (cont'd) | |
First general segment (cont'd) | 10:00-13:00 | Panel discussion on energy-related projects…(Government speakers) |
| Lunch | |
Ministerial / High-level segment | 15:00-15:15 | Opening ceremony |
15:15-16:45 | The Convention 10 years after its entry in force + way forward (invited speakers plus NGO statement) | |
16:45-17:30 | Statements by Ministers | |
17:30-18:00 | Signing of multilateral agreement by South-East Europe Ministers | |
18:00-19:00 | Press conference (all ministers) | |
19:00-21:00 | Official dinner | |
Wednesday | (cont'd) | |
Second general segment | 10:00-11:30 | Review of the work carried out by the Working Group and adoption of decisions |
11:30-12:00 | Date and venue of, and election of officers for, the fifth meeting of the Parties | |
12:00-13:00 | Other business | |
| Lunch | |
15:00-19:00 | Cultural visit |
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Panel discussion on energy-related projects (item 3 of agenda) | |
Biographies of speakers in the high-level segment | ENG |
Mr. Nenad Mikulic, Ministry of Environmental and Physical Planning of Croatia, on "EIA of Natural Gas Production Field 'Northern Adriatic', Croatia - Italy" | ENG |
Mr. Gerhard Winkelmann-Oei of Germany’s Federal Environment Agency on "Safety of Installations, Hazard Prevention & Cleaner Production" (4.3 MB) | ENG |
Mr. Constantin Pulbere, Horizontal Legislation and Regulations Directorate of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Romania, on "Applying the Espoo Convention on Nuclear Power Plant Cernavoda units 3-4" (1 MB) | ENG |
Mr. Fikret Jaffarov, of the Azerbaijan NGO "Society of Sustainable Development", on " The network development for civil control of the impacts of oil and gas operations in Azerbaijan" (1.2 MB) | ENG |
The Convention 10 years after its entry into force: future directions (item 5 of agenda) | |
Ms. Joanna Treweek on "Biodiversity and EIA in a transboundary context" | ENG |
Ms. Elizabeth Wilson on "Environmental assessment and climate change" | ENG |
Mr. William Sheate on "EIA and SEA: their interrelationship and role as instruments for sustainable development” | ENG |
- briefing note | ENG |
Mr. Lyudmil Ikonomov on "Promoting subregional cooperation, with a focus on the Black Sea subregion" (1.7 MB) | ENG |
Mr. Andriy Andrusevych, statement on behalf of the NGOs represented at the meeting | ENG |
Statements by Ministers (item 6 of agenda) | |
Mr. Attila Korodi, Minister of Environmental and Sustainable Development | - |
Mr. Simon Papyan, First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, Armenia | ENG |
Mr Chavdar Georgiev, Deputy Minister of Environment and Water, Bulgaria | ENG |
Mr. Nokola Ruzinski, State Secretary, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, Croatia | ENG |
Mr. Sasa Dragin, Minister of Environmental Protection, Serbia | - |
Mr. Dejan Panovski, State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Physical Planning, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | - |
Mr. Heorgiy Philipchuk, Minister of Environmental Protection, Ukraine | - |
Slovenia on behalf of the European Union Presidency | ENG |
Mr Jan Sorensen, United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Bucharest | - |
Mr. Philip Weller, Executive Secretary, ICPDR | - |
Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (1.2 MB) | ENG |
Statements by ECO-Forum on other agenda items | ENG |
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For States signing the multilateral agreement for South-Eastern Europe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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