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REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW WORKSHOP IS HELD
IN BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
The Caspian Environment Programme (CEP), a regional
programme approved by the Caspian Governments and supported by international
donors such as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), World Bank and the European Union Tacis Programme,
is holding the regional Environmental Law Workshop on the
10th-13th December 2001 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The event is
organized in cooperation with the UNEP Regional Office for Europe and United
Nations Economic Commissions for Europe (UNECE).
The aim of the workshop is to review the process of
transposing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) into national legal
systems by focusing on institutional arrangements, information management,
substantive obligations and compliance measures.
The workshop will bring together official
representatives from five Caspian countries, representatives form Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the
UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in
Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus
Convention) and the UNECE Convention on Environmental Impacts Assessment in a
Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) and the Regional Environmental Center
for Central Europe (REC). Prive sector is presented by BP, ExxonMobil and the
Caspian Fish Factory, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD), and international NGO ISAR is also represented. The Minister of Ecology
and Natural Resources, Mr. Goussein Bagirov, inaugurated the event.
The workshop takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from
10 to 14 December 2001, at ISR Plaza Azeri Apart & Business Centre, Nizami,
340, starting at 10.00.
Contact persons:
Marceil Yeater, CITES, Secretariat, Chemin Des
Anemones,
CH-1219 Chateleine Geneva, Switzerland
E-mail: marceil.yeater@unep.ch
Tel.:
+ 41 22 917 84 64
Fax: +41 22 917 80 11
Elina Farmanova, the Caspian Environment
Programme,
Programme Coordination Unit, Room 108,
Government Building, 40
Uzeir Gadjibekov Street,
Baku 370016 Azerbaijan,
Phone: + (99412) 97 17
85, 93 80 03
Fax: + (99412) 97 17 86
E-mail: efarmanova@caspian.in-baku.com
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