On 23-24 May 2013, the Polish city of Wrocław will host a scientific conference entitled “EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive – challenges and perspectives in the light of the past experiences and the recent proposal for amendment”. The conference will be hosted by Law Faculty of the Wrocław University and according to preliminary registration will gather over two hundred participants. Jerzy Jendrośka, Director of Environmental Law Center (Wrocław) and Adjunct-Professor of European law at Opole University who is an invited expert in the project of Environment-People-Law “Promotion of European standards of environmental impact assessment in Ukraine”, is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Conference.
EPL President John Bonine will make a presentation entitled “Mythology, Deception, and Secrecy – How to Reform Some Unacceptable EIA Practices in Europe and Beyond”. During the conference EPL representatives will have an opportunity to exchange experience with European colleagues and to study ways of legislative development of the institute of environmental impact assessment in the EU. Alongside with the conference there will be a working meeting of experts of the project “Promotion of European standards of environmental impact assessment in Ukraine”.
For further information please contact
Yelyzaveta Aleksyeyeva, EPL senior lawyer
email: office@epl.org.ua; e.aleksyeyeva@epl.org.ua
tel.: (032) 225 – 76 – 82
