Events and Announcements

Today, on September 14th, the high-level segment of the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) was held in the city of Budva (Montenegro). More than four hundred official delegates and NGO representatives from…

  On 29 September 2017, the Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR), International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) and Environmental Initiative (EI) NGO are holding the round table discussion “How to introduce the European hierarchy of solid domestic waste management in Ukraine?” covering various aspects of waste management, from financing to legal questions, providing also best EU…

Sophia Shutiak, EPL lawyer, was looking for the answer to the question at the meeting of Avfall Sverige company – the Swedish Waste Management Association.1 As explained Jon Nilsson–Djerf, the representative of the Association, Sweden has a complex system of waste collection that is very effective. But Swedes are modest and say that there is…

On the eve of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention, Environment-People-Law (hereinafter – EPL) wishes to express its position as to the draft decision on general issues of compliance, particularly with regard to the issue of Ukraine’s compliance with the Aarhus Convention. EPL is the Communicant on the ACCC case with regard…

Scandalous1 pig farm Ltd. “Silski traduciyi” (Bilyky village, Poltava region), beginning from August 2016 is blocking the work of controling bodies. Thus, representatives of the State Environmental Inspection from August 2016 until April 2017 eight times tried to conduct unscheduled inspections, but all of these attempts were finished by non-admission and composition of the Act…

Destruction of the monument of nature “Arkose sandstones outcropping” located in Shirokivskyi district became the reason for the prosecution. The People’s Deputy Ihor Lutsenko was informed about this by the prosecutor’s office of Dnipropetrovsk region. Environmental scientists of EPL, whose request served as the basis for initiating the proceeding, noted that this is perhaps the…

EPL environmental scientists and volunteers surveyed awareness of land users in Kyiv protected areas of their obligation to protect objects of natural reserve fund. In Kyiv, there have been created more than 200 territories and objects of natural reserve fund, many of which are individual trees or groups of trees. Users of Ukrainian Wikipedia noted…

On 30 May -1 June 2017, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” jointly with the National School of Judges of Ukraine held the training for judges “Environmental protection and human rights”. The event was organized in the city of Kremenets and funded by the Embassy of Sweden to Ukraine. During the three days of the training, the…

30 May 2017 was the first day of the training for judges entitiled “Environmental protection and human rights” organized by International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” and the National School of Judges. On the way to the training venue, participants of the training, including 27 judges of general jurisdiction of various instances, visited the pig raising farm…

Olya Melen-Zabramna participates in the 15th Colloquium of IUCN Academy of environmental law taking place in Cebu, Philippines. Workshop held by organizers on May, 30 was dedicated to the protection of the nature in conflicts and building peace. Participants shared their stories from the conflict zones such as Congo, Rwanda on peace building and nature…