Events and Announcements

As it became known to EPL from the web-site of the Volyn Oblast State Forest and Hunting Administration, on March 15, 2018, the list of measures to improve the sanitary state of forests in Vorotniv Forestry and the State Enterprise “Kivertsi Forestry” was approved. The list of forest felling in “Vorotniv” reserve The area where […]

EPL’s environmental scientists got to know from the register of EIA that LLC “PERZHANSKA ORE COMPANY” announced its intention to carry out the planned activities and assess its environmental impact1. The activity is related to the extraction of beryllium from the Perzhansky deposit located on the territory of Olevsk district in Zhytomyr region in the […]

On Tuesday, April 3, 2018, the EU-funded project “Ukrainian civil society for European-style waste management” will hold the training “Organization of effective waste management: what local authorities can do”. The agenda will include the following topics: How local authorities organize and control waste management. The ways to attract investment, implement state-private partnership and involve international […]

On 19-20 March 2018, judges-trainers from Lviv, Chernivtsi, Kharkiv and representatives of the National School of Judges of Ukraine (NSJU) had a training on the online format of the distant course for judges “Environmental protection and human rights” developed by International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law”. Iryna Voytiuk, a member of EPL Executive Board stated: “Same as […]

On 21 February 2018, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine liquidated 12 territorial bodies of the State Environmental Inspectorate that operated on regional (oblast) level: State Environmental Inspectorate in the Autonomous republic of Crimea State Environmental Inspectorate in Zhytomyr region State Environmental Inspectorate in Ivano-Frankivsk region State Environmental Inspectorate in Kyiv region State Environmental Inspectorate […]

On 15 February 2018, State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine jointly with Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs held the round-table discussion “Using solid domestic waste as a source of energy for production of thermal and electric power in Ukraine”. Although the round-table was declared to be open and accessible for […]

On 15 February 2018, the final decision in EPL’s case regarding the ploughing of the landscape reserve “Tarutynski steppe” was adopted. The decision of the Supreme Economic Court upheld the decisions of the courts of the first and appellate courts that invalidated the contract № 5 -2016 of 13.07.2016 “On the cultivation of agricultural crops” […]

According to the official web-site of the National Commission of State Regulation in Energy and Communal Services (NCSRECS), on 13 November 2017 there was held a public discussion of the draft resolution on setting tariffs for sale of electricity by Ukrhidroenerho in 2018. According to this draft, 20 mln UAH are planned to be spent […]

International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” announces a competition for selection of students of the third on-line course on international environmental law that will run from February to May 2018. The 2018 course will concentrate on two major topics – horizontal environmental legislation and waste management. The course will include six modules on the most urgent issues […]

About results of functioning of the Department of Environmental Protection of Kyiv Regional State Administration and State Environmental Academy in 2017 In January last year EPL released the article “How officials make profit on creation of protected areas» that wrote about the scheme used by the Department of Environmental Protection at Kyiv Regional State Administration, […]