 Welcome to the webpage of the Assistance in Environmental Law Drafting in South Eastern Europe project.
In recent years, the countries of South Eastern Europe (SEE) have made significant progress in meeting their obligations within the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAP). There has been considerable effort devoted to upgrading and aligning domestic environmental legislation with the EU environmental acquis.
The project’s goal is to support the process of approximation with EU environmental legislation in SEE countries, and to ensure a regional strategic approach toward the development of environmental law within the context of the SAP.
Project Phase 1
(August 2001 – August 2003)
A number of international and bilateral projects have provided assistance in developing national environmental legislation. Within the framework of national level assistance, REReP project 1.3, Assistance in Environmental Law Drafting in South Eastern Europe, which was implemented from 2001-2003, played a key role in ensuring regional cooperation for the development of environmental law, transfer of experience within the SEE region, transfer of lessons learned from old and new member states, and promotion of a strategic regional approach to the approximation of EU environmental legislation.
Project Phase 2
(September 2003 – September 2005)
Phase 2 of the project was a continuation of REReP 1.3 (Phase 1). The project built on the experience of regional projects supported under PHARE, the Development of Implementation Strategies for Approximation in Environment programme (DISAE), and the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange unit (TAIEX), among others, and bilateral assistance. It was implemented in close collaboration with in-country environmental law assistance projects, European Commission delegations and the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) in the SEE region.
Project Phase 3 (May 2007-May 2009)
The current phase is a Task II of a bigger project, the “Regional Environmental Reconstruction Programme CARDS TASK II Environmental Law drafting in SEE”.
At the regional level, it focuses on the delivery of capacity building assistance to the SEE region on EU environmental law through targeted topical workshops and study visits. This includes support for the operation of the Environmental Law Approximation Network (ELAN) including the organisation of the seventh and eighth meetings of ELAN.
At the national level, the task includes progress monitoring work. This activity began in October 2007 and will run to August 2008 and covers the potential candidate states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, including Kosovo as defined by the UNSCR 1244, and Montenegro) and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Specific objectives
- To promote in Southeast European countries the efficient and effective development of comprehensive legislative frameworks in compliance with the EU environmental acquis, through application of a regional strategic approach that encourages dialogue and co-operation, sharing of outputs and solutions, and joint implementation of activities.
- To facilitate co-operation in environmental law within the SEE region by facilitating the operation of Environmental Law Approximation Network (ELAN) and maintaining and updating a comprehensive, detailed, publicly accessible database of environmental legislative drafting processes in SEE (the “Matrix”) on the basis of substantive, regionally-based knowledge.
- To enhance the capacities of the beneficiary ministries to produce environmental legislation by providing a critical review of draft documents.
- To assist the process of progress monitoring of directives and regulations of the subject countries/entities.
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