GUTA I

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List of participants

Topics of discussions, issues and presentations

• Role of non-governmental organizations in Ukraine Environmental Policy Realization, by Michail Kostitsky
  
• New rights and possibilities of NGOs under Ukrainian legislations, by Svitlana Kravchenko
  
• Dutch “green” organizations experience on legal tools using, by Joost Rutteman
  
• Access to information: legal problems, by Olexiy Shumilo
  
• Public participation in Environmental Decision Making: Central and Eastern European countries’ experience, by Stephen Stec
  
• Public Participation in Environmental Protection: Legal Problems, discussion
  
• Overview of Ukrainian Environmental Protection Legislation, by Svitlana Kravchenko
  
• Governmental Management and Control Bodies in the Sphere of Environmental Protection, by Olexiy Shumilo
  
• Environmental NGOs’ right to go to court, by Petro Rochenko
  
• Legal aspects of Environmental NGOs’ activity in the Netherlands, by Joost Rutteman
  
• Environmental Advocacy: possibilities and practice in CIS countries, by Stephen Stec
  
• Liability for Environmental Transgressions under Ukrainian Legislation, by Svitlana Kravchenko
  
• Public Participation in EIA, by Anatoliy Pohodzyaev
  
• Legal forms of NGOs’ participation in Environmental Protection, by Marianna Bolshakova
  
• Citizens’ suits in Ukrainian and US Law (comparative analysis), by Irina Tustanovska
  
• Using of e-mail in NGOs’ activity. Practical training, by John Bonine
  
• NGOs’ Participation in Environmental Decision Making, round table:
  Problems discussed:
  

  • How to participate in discussing of drafts, discussing the materials concerning the sitting, construction and reconstruction of facilities that can negatively affect the state of the Environmental Public Ecological Expertise
    
  • How to organize the referendums, demonstrations, manifestations, etc. according to the law
    
• Legal actions of Dutch Environmental organizations – Joost Rutteman
  
• Using of legal tools in Ukrainian NGOs’ activity, discussion, role-playing
  
• Using the legal tools in NGOs’ activity, discussion:
  Problems discussed:
  

  • How to get information
    
  • Institutions to go to in case of environmental transgressions
    
  • How to write a petition, complaint or suit
    
  • What it necessary to know for suiting
    
  • Negotiations and settlements
    
• Problems and obstacles in using the legal tools in NGOs’ activity, discussion:
  Problems discussed:
  

  • How to get the information about Environmental Legislation
    
  • How to organize trainings and workshops on Environmental Legislation for NGOs
    
  • The role of environmental legal NGOs
    
  • Problems of collaboration between environmental NGOs and Environmental lawyers
    
  • Information exchange
    
• Discussion of cases
  
• Practicum on Deep Ecology