Events and Announcements

The issue of removal of hazardous hexachlorobenzene waste from Kalush that in 2011-2013 was performed by “SI Group Consort Ltd” (Israel) has been repeatedly raised both in Ukraine and abroad. This is the company that won the tenders for procurement of state services of hexachlorobenzene waste removal performed in 2011-2012 by the Ministry of Environment…

EPL appealed to the Halytskyi District Court of Lviv with a suit challenging actions of Lviv city council related to the operation of Hrybovychi landfill. However, representatives of Lviv City Council failed to attend two consecutive court hearings, in this way procrastinating consideration of the case. Back in October 2016, EPL filed a lawsuit with…

We got to know that on January 19, 2017, Lviv City Council (LCC) held an extraordinary scandalous session and adopted the resolution “On the critical situation in the administrative territory of Lviv City Council due to the inability to remove solid waste”. Even despite the truly critical situation with the removal of solid domestic waste…

On January 23, 2017, Christian Friis Bach – Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe addressed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mr. Klimkin with a letter on the findings of the Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention on Ukraine’s implementation of decisions V/9m of the Meeting of the Parties regarding…

According to the Forest Code of Ukraine, allowable forest cutting norm is “scientifically based annual norm of logging approved for every owner, permanent forest user by groups of species, based on the principles of continuity and non-exhaustion of forest resources use.” These forest cutting norms are defined by appraisers (PA “Ukrderzhlisproekt) and are approved by…

EPL has repeatedly emphasized that small hydro power plants are not the tools of ensuring energy independence of Ukraine but are the business that ruins the environment. Another proof of this fact is the information released by the State enterprise “Enerhorynok” regarding the structure and amounts of functioning of energy market in 2016. Thus, small…

Despite the fact that the expansion of protected areas is stipulated by the Strategy of Regional Development of Ukraine, in 2016 only in 11 regions there were adopted decisions to establish protected areas. Another four areas expanded the network of protected areas through the work of the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine rather than departments…

Press-Release 06.11.2016

How can we find our own Ukrainian way of animal-raising development so that we are respected on the international markets? What should be changed immediately? What can local communities achieve? What support do reformers of agricultural sector need? Participants of the forum will jointly seek answers to these questions.

Ukraine has chosen the clear way of reforms and modernization in the direction of European standards and the EU is willing to help Ukrainian people to reach this goal. Currently the EU together with the Ukrainian government is determining the priorities of support for the period of 2018-2020.