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31 January 2023 Imitation of the progress of the Ministry of Environment in 2022 – early 2023

At the beginning of 2023, on its official Facebook page, the Ministry of Environment published an infographic about the results of 2022 in terms of implementing the Association Agreement with the EU in the environmental sphere. Description of the infographic was saying about big steps towards the EU, about the approval of nine European integration…

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18 January 2023 EcoSOS 2022: citizens and communities protecting the environment

EPL’s mission is the rule of law for environmental protection. It is impossible to save the environment alone. Therefore, during the year, our EkoSOS 2022 hotline gathered like-minded people in communities across Ukraine whose environmental rights were violated. Together with our clients and colleagues from other organizations, we looked for the root of the problems…

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17 December 2022 Judges from Lviv failed to protect Svydovets mountain range. What next?

On December, 15, 2022 the appeal court in Lviv took the side of the investors of ski resort Svydovets construction. Svydovevts ski resort is supposed to be second Bykovel ski resort in Zakarpatya region. Back in 2017, Rakhiv and Tyachiv regional state administrations adopted the decisions to approde the Detailed plan of the territory of…

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12 December 2022 Protection of ecoactivists in the world

On November 23, there was held an online meeting of all stakeholders with the newly elected Special Rapporteur of the Aarhus Convention on Environmental Defenders, where he presented his mandate and talked about his future activities. Below we will consider the key aspects of Michel Forst’s vision of the mandate https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-11/Vision_for_mandate.pdf?fbclid=IwAR15mf5QmmOEsTMbf9GEifLGB1d15u5vdzpy0NLT4GZCE-IFeMfr5xeWJ2A. Mr. Michel Forst noted…

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6 December 2022 “Ukrainian case” in the Compliance Committee to the Protocol on PRTRs

On November 24-25, 2022, in Geneva there was held the ninth meeting of the Working Group of the Parties to the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (hereinafter – PRTR) to the Aarhus Convention. Despite the war, four representatives from Ukraine took part in the meeting of the Working Group – two representatives of…

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6 December 2022 Will the reform of state environmental control be implemented?

The reform of state environmental control has been implemented for at least five years. It is almost three years since registration in the Parliament of the Draft Law on State Environmental Control No. 3091. In July 2021, it was adopted as a basis, and the issue has not moved any further. International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law”…

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1 December 2022 The role of civil society as driving force for the EU driven changes and reforms

EPL participated online in High-Level Conference on ‘RebuildUkraine’ and Civil Dialogue, organized by European Environmental Bureau, with participation of the EU institutions representatives. EPL presented its vision on the role of civil society in Ukraine, in rebuilding Ukraine and launching key environmental reforms, in particular the reform of state environmental control. Below there is EPL statement…

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29 November 2022 Online meeting with the Aarhus Convention’s Special Rapporteur

On November 23, there was held an online meeting of all stakeholders with the newly elected Special Rapporteur of the Aarhus Convention on Environmental Defenders, where he presented his mandate and talked about his future activities. After his election, Mr. Michel Forst thanked the Parties for their trust and stated that he will do his…

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29 November 2022 Recommendations for improvement of E-PRTR highlighted at the Ninth meeting of the working group of the Parties to the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

  While Ukraine is just starting to implement the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (hereinafter – the Register), the international community is actively working to improve it. Among other things, the following ideas for improvement of functioning of the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (hereinafter – E-PRTR) were proposed at the ninth meeting of…

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29 November 2022 What mood prevails in the UN?

As we mentioned earlier, lawyers of International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” took part in The ninth meeting of the working group of the Parties to the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (hereinafter – the Protocol) to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice on Environmental Matters. Participation…

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