Bosnia and Herzegovina: Tarik Kupusovic, Professor, Hydro-Engineering Institute, Sarajevo, Hrvoje Bevanda, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Physical Planning and Environment of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Branko Vucijak, Hydro-engineering Institute, Sarajevo.
Bulgaria: Nona Karadjova, Head of Department, and Mariana Hristova, Expert, Ministry of Environment and Water of Bulgaria.
Croatia: Kornelija Pintaric, Head of Department, and, Nevanka Preradovic, Advisor, Directorate for Protection of Nature and Environment, Croatia.
Czech Republic: Jirina Jilkova and Petra Malkova, University of Economics Prague, Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy, Czech Republic.
Estonia: Eva Kraav, Vice Chancellor, Ministry of Environment of Estonia.
Hungary: Kornelia Safian, Head of Economic Unit, Ministry of Environment and Regional Planning, Hungary.
Latvia: Rudite Vesere, Senior Official, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Latvia, and, Janis Brunenieks, Director, Latvian Environmental Protection Fund.
Lithuania: Daiva Semeniene and Jurate Varneckiene, Center for Environmental Policy, Lithuania.
FYR Macedonia: Goce Tasevski, Conaultant, Ljupcho Avramovski, Director, Fund for Environment and Nature Protection of Macedonia.
Poland: Jerzy Sarnacki, Consultant, Poland.
Romania: Mihaela Popovici, Director, Center for Environmentally Sustainable Economic Policy, Romania.
Slovak Republic: Danka Jassikova, Harvard Institute for International Development / Ministry of Environment, Slovakia.
Slovenia: Nives Nared, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Slovenia.
FR Yugoslavia: Valentina Mileusnic Vucic, Adviser, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Republic of Serbia.

The report includes also the conclusions from the discussions held at the occasion of the SIEI Expert Meeting held on April 16-7, 1998 at the REC in Szentendre which was attended by most of the experts mentioned above as well as Hans Bergman of the European Commission, Patrick Francis, EAP Task Force, OECD, Ulrik Dan Weuder from the Danish EPA, Michael Betts, Integrated Skills Ltd., Miroslav Hajek, Czech Ministry of Environment, Sona Zahoranova, Ministry of Environment of Slovakia, Tatiana Kluvankova, Prognostic Institute, Slovak Academy of Science of Slovakia, Bojan Radej, Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, Slovenia. Special thanks goes to Jim McNicholas for proofreading the report.

This report has been prepared by Jürg Klarer, REC, SIEI Secretariat and Zsuzsa Lehoczki, Budapest University of Economic Sciences / COWI.

Finally, the generous support from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, the Swiss Federal Office of Environment, Forests and Landscape, the French Ministry of Environment and the Czech Ministry of Environment is gratefully acknowledged.