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Regional
Meeting Reports
A regional meeting takes place every six months and is hosted
by the country temporarily presiding over the project. Six regional meetings
have taken place thus far:
6th Meeting of the Network of MEAs Senior Officials
and Legal Experts for South Eastern Europe (AIMS), Ministry of Science
and Environmental Protection
Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, September 28-29, 2006.
4th Joint Meeting of Senior Officials and MEA
Legal Experts
Bulgaria, Sofia 19-21 November 2003
The purposes of this meeting were as follows:
- Seminar on UNECE Conventions;
- 4th Joint Meeting of Network of Senior Officials
and Legal Experts;
- Review Final Report of Tulcea meeting;
- Finalize regional assessment;
- Discuss future of the AIMS project.
Objectives of the UNECE seminar:
- Raise awareness and understanding on interlinkages
between the three UNECE Conventions, and identify how coordinating the
implementation of the Conventions can help to achieve environmental
and sustainable development goals in the region;
- Identify regional implementation issues, in particular
such issues where two or three of the Conventions are involved; and
Identify national problems in the implementation of the Conventions.
Please see the meeting
report (8-page PDF file)
, the list of participants
(7-page PDF file), agenda
(3-page PDF file)
Tulcea, Romania, June 19-21 2003
The purposes of this meeting were as follows:
- Training on the Basel Convention;
- Kiev Ministerial Conference Update;
- 3rd Joint Meeting of Networks of Senior Officials
and Legal Experts;
- Review Final Report of Tirana meeting;
- Discuss latest version of regional assessment.
- Discuss opportunities for follow-up of AIMS project
Please see the meeting
report (13-page PDF file)
, the list of participants
(5-page PDF file), agenda
(3-page PDF file)
Tirana
The purposes of this meeting were as follows:
- To present the results of the completed prioritisation
exercises and provide a list of maximum 5 concrete priorities identified
in consultation with the National Advisory Committees (NACs)
- To present and distribute the final version of the
country assessments and to discuss their findings and recommendations
- To present and discuss the Draft Regional Assessment
on Acceptance and Implementation of MEAs in SEE
- To hold network meetings of the Network of Senior MEA
Officials (National Focal Points) and Legal Experts
- To begin to plan specific, concrete activities on regional
and national level.
Please see the meeting
report (13-page PDF file), the list
of participants (5-page PDF file), agenda
(3-page PDF file)
Borovec, Bulgaria, May-June 2002
The purposes of this meeting were as follows:
- to review proposed conclusions of the "Regional
Assessment of Acceptance and Implementation of MEAs in SEE";
- to exchange information on results of national MEA
assessments and national MEA priorities;
- to establish the Network of Senior MEA Officials (National
Focal Points);
- to host a second meeting of the Legal Experts Network;
and
- to begin to plan specific, concrete regional activities.
Please see the agenda
(9-KByte PDF file), the list of participants and the
final report (45-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
Busteni, Romania, October 2001
The main scope of the this meeting was finalisation of
the "Terms of Reference for Country Assessment of Acceptance and
Implementation of MEAs." The meeting was attended by MEA legal experts
identified in each beneficiary country. Please see the agenda
(7-KByte PDF file), the list of
participants (39-KByte PDF file) and the
final report (200-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
National
Meeting Reports
Based on the priorities defined through
the country assessment and stakeholder consultation, in each country/entity
specific capacity building activities were implemented, as presented below.
- Prcanj, Republic of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro
26-27 March 2004
Training Workshop on the monitoring & control of transboundary movements
of hazardous wastes in the context of the Basel Convention
Please see the
final report (157-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
- Pula, Croatia
26-27 March 2004
Workshop on implementation of the Protocol Concerning Cooperation
in Preventing Pollution from Ships and, in Cases of Emergency, Combating
Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea
Please see the
final report (134-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
- Palic, Republic of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro
8-9, March 2004
National workshop on the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention
on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals
and Pesticides in International Trade
Please see the final report
(186-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
- Bansko, Bulgaria
December 11-12, 2003
Training Workshop on the monitoring & control of transboundary
movements of hazardous wastes in the context of the Basel Convention
and EU regulation
Please see the
final report (146-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
- Tirana, Albania
3-5 December 2003
Workshop on UNEP and UN/ECE Environmental Conventions in the Republic
of Albania
Please see the Recommendation Letter
(162-KByte PDF file), Memorandum
(218-KByte PDF file) and Outputs from
workshop (175-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
Related information is now
available.
- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
30-31 October 2003
Training Workshop on the monitoring & control of transboundary
movements of hazardous wastes in the context of the Basel Convention
and EU regulations
Please see the
final report (172-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
- Ohrid, Macedonia
October 20-22, 2003
National Training on CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Please see the final report (183-KByte
PDF file) of the meeting.
- Busteni, Romania
29-30 September 2003
Training on the Basel Convention
Please see the final report
(150-KByte PDF file) of the meeting.
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