Sixth ELAN meeting
At the 6th meeting of the Environmental Law Drafting Network of Senior
Officials (ELDNSO), on December 15-16, 2005 in Szentendre was launched
the new name -the Environmental Law Approximation Network (ELAN), in
order to mark the substantial progress made in adopting a strategic
approach towards approximation and to provide an opportunity for stock-taking
and future projections.
At the Fifth ELDNSO meeting, on June 16-17,
2005 in Cetinje, Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro, the main discussions
were focused on the development and effectiveness of the tools for regional
cooperation and sharing of experience within the region, including the
Matrix, the project website, the regional
report in its second phase, and the further development of the network.
The representatives from the Republic of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro,
and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia presented success stories
under the project: in-country legal assistance for the beneficiary ministries
in law drafting of chemicals frameworks.
The Fourth Meeting of Environmental Law Drafting
Network of Senior Officials (ELDNSO) took place on April 19-20,
2004 Pula, Croatia. The meeting was organised back-to-back with the
regional workshop on the Approximation of IPPC Directive in SEE Countries.
The meeting gave the opportunity to present and discuss the scope, objectives
and countries’ expectations regarding the regional report to assess
the progress in environmental law drafting in the SEE region -2nd phase
and the Matrix of environmental law projects; present and discuss ideas
and proposals for study visits and exchanges and finalize the program
for regional topic oriented workshops;
The meeting gave assistance in in-country prioritization of legal drafting
needs and legal drafting assistance - procedure for drafting priority
requests; prioritisation of legal drafting and development of concrete
requests; discussion with each country/entity.
At the third meeting of ELDNSO, in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 27-29, 2003 the network members discussed
the results of the first phase of the REReP 1.3 project, at regional
and at country/entity level, shared their main achievements, difficulties
and obstacles in project implementation, and identified lessons learned
with regards to the EU approximation process, regional cooperation,
and legal drafting prioritisation. The participants had consultations
on the upcoming phase of REReP 1.3, presented their expectations and
formulated recommendations for the future of the project.
At the second meeting of the ELDNSO network
on December 11-13, 2002, Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the countries/entities
presented in detail the preliminary requests for technical assistance
submitted to the REC. The REC provided guidance on defining priority
activities and preparing requests for technical assistance with the
aim of supporting the process of improving and finalising the requests.
At the first meeting in Celebici, Bosnia and
Herzegovina on July 11-13, 2002, international experts presented lessons
learned from prior and current international assistance efforts aimed
at the EU environmental acquis in SEE countries, ensuring that the project
will be built on existing experience. The experts introduced to participants
the procedures for prioritisation of environmental legislation provided
in strategic EC documents, thus facilitating the process of prioritising
legislative drafting in SEE countries/entities.
