Agenda

Capacity for Climate Protection in CEE

Advisory Committee meeting
3 April, 2001, Szentendre, REC

8.30- 9.00 Registration
9.00 -9.05 Opening statement and objective of the meeting (Jernej Stritih, Executive Director of the REC)

9.05- 9.30 Session I: PROJECT STATUS
Update on project activities to be followed by a discussion. During this session we will inform you of activities completed in the last year. We hope to have some advices to assess the success/failure of the activities.

9.05-9.20 Briefing about the past project activities and status (Elena Petkova, WRI, Project Manager)
9.20-9.30 Discussion

9.30-10.30 Session II. CEE PRIORITIES FOR COPs
The objective of this session is to support CEE preparation for COP6b and COP7 by providing an opportunity for exchange of positions and expectations among CEE governments and NGOs.

09:30-09:45 Priorities of the EU accession countries before the resumed COP6 (Tibor Farago, Ministry for Environment, Hungary)
09:45-10:15 Discussion

10:15-10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:30 Session III. BEST PRACTICES IN POLICIES AND MEASURES
The objective of this session is to discuss the case studies assessing good/best practices in domestic policies and measures to achieve the climate convention objectives. The case studies have been prepared by the partner NGOs in six selected CEE countries.

10:30 -10:50 Bulgarian case study:
Case study on cross-sectoral best practices, specifically from the point of central/regional government assistance and regional/local government initiative (Valya Peeva, EnEffect, Bulgaria)

10:50-11:10 Czech case study:
Case study on best practices in the transport sector in the Czech Republic (Ales Kutak, Center for Transport and Energy, Czech Republic)

11.10-11:30 Hungarian case study:
Analyses of experiences of the Energy Efficiency Credit Line in the period of 1997-2000 (Ery Vilma, Center for Environmental Studies, Hungary}

11:30-12:30 Questions and answers

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13.30 -14.35 Session III continues

13:30-13:50 Polish case study:
Best practices in policies and measures in energy sector with a special regard to renewable sources of energy in Poland ( Miroslav Sobolewski, Institute for Sustainable Development, Poland)

13:50-14:10 Romanian Case study: A combined interrelated pilot case study for the best practices in Romania
(Lavinia Andrei, TERRA MILLENIUL III, Romania)

14:10-14:30 Slovenian case study:
Best practices in electricity generation focusing on co-generation technologies (Andrej Klemenc, Slovene E-Forum, Slovenia)

14:30-15:30 Questions and answers

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45- 16:30 Session IV PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
The objective of this session is to inform the participants about the planned activities over the next 6 months and to get some recommendations regarding the next case studies topic.

15:30-15:45 Briefing about the planned activities including the next case studies topic and contribution to the coming international conferences (Zsuzsanna Ivanyi REC, Project Manager)

15:45-16:30 Discussion

16:30 Closing