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Autumn 2002 Archive
A New Task Force!
Bulgaria's offer to lead the proposed
new task force was accepted by the Aarhus Convention's
first
Meeting of the Parties, October 21-23, 2002 in Lucca,
Italy. The new Task Force's mandate is currently defined
in the final
draft decision (MS Word 110 Kb). Specifically,
it will draft recommendations on the use of electronic
tools, explore non-electronic mechanisms, and will cooperate
closely with the proposed capacity building service and
clearing house mechanism, to be hosted by the Secretariat
to the Convention.
In an
invitation (MS Word, 32 kb) to Aarhus National
Focal Points, repeated during the Meeting of Parties,
the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Waters invited
countries “to give…their priorities in electronic information
tools on a national, sub-regional and regional level for
the next three years, based on the report of the workshop
on the use of electronic tools in the implementation of
the Aarhus Convention in Arendal,
Norway. It is hoped this will offer a clearer
picture as to future actions to be fostered by the Task
Force, while a workshop to discuss these priorities is
tentatively scheduled for spring 2003. (Note: a
country-by-country assessment
conducted by REC in early 2001 is also available).
New Case Studies on E-tools
The
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern
Europe has finalised twelve new case studies on the
use of electronic tools. These have been completed
thanks to the contributions and assistance of Poland,
Denmark, the Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia, United
Kingdom, USA and Austria. All good practices are available
online in the
Case Study Gallery, in hardcopy (as part of the Compendium
distributed to Aarhus National Focal Points and Task Force
representatives), and in pdf file format. The REC
wishes to acknowledge the support of the Dutch Ministry
of Foreign Affairs within the framework of the Regional
Environmental Reconstruction Programme (REREP)
for South Eastern Europe.
E-tools Demonstration, Lucca, Italy
Organisations involved in supporting
the work of the new e-tools Task Force demonstrated the
benefits of electronic media through a series of presentations
during the Meeting of Parties, October 21-23, 2002.
Among those shown were the following:
Electronic
Tools to implement the Aarhus Convention – The Case Study
Approach (PowerPoint presentation, zip file,
6.4 MB).
This page was updated
on Oct. 29, 2002.
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