Events and Announcements

On November 2, 2017, the Training and Scientific Institute of Bohdan Khmelnytski Cherkassy National University hosted the first, introductory training seminar within the course “Ukraine as an Element of the Pan-European Nature Protection Space”. EPL environmental scientist Petro Testov informed students majoring in environmental studies and biology about the main approaches to environmental protection management…

Ukrainian politicians and agrarian tycoons have announced the intention to build the Ukrainian part of the waterway from Gdansk to Kherson. E40 is the waterway more than 2000 kilometers long, which should pass through the territory of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. It is planned that the route will connect the Black Sea and the Baltic…

On 12-14 December 2017, International charitable organization “Environment–People–Law” (EPL) is traditionally gathering representatives of the civil society working for environmental protection. This year the meeting will be exceptional because it will be devoted to introduction in Ukraine of the institutes of environmental assessment, the issue on which part of environmental NGOs have been focusing for…

For three years, the State Administration of Affairs (SAA) has misused at least 31 million UAH envisaged for the work of national nature parks. In the next three years, it is planned to spend another 36 million UAH in the similar way. SAA believes that “maintenance of national parks” is the repair of the roof…

Theme №1 in the “Crimean issue” during the last two years is the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait, which aims to connect Russia with the annexed Crimean peninsula. Most of the discussions around this undoubtedly important issue are turning around political consequences, or are like dragging a rope guessing whether “they will…

On September 28, 2017, the Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine sent to other ministries a draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on approval of the Action Plan for the implementation of the Association Agreement to be reviewed and approved by September 29, 2017. The draft resolution contains 700 pages. The time…

 29 September 2017 Press-release On 29 September 2017, RPR office hosted the EU-funded roundtable discussion “How to introduce the European hierarchy of domestic waste management in Ukraine?” that became the platform for developing a joint vision of the government, business and the public regarding Ukraine’s switch to European standards of waste management. As stated…

 Press-release On 26-27 September 2017, the EU–funded seminar “How can the public influence behavioral change in waste management in Ukraine?” was held in Lviv. The seminar was devoted to discussion of European practices of waste management and the role of civil society in changing the whole system of waste management in Ukraine. According to…

The panel of judges of the Kyiv Economic Court of Appeal in the case No. 911/61/17 stated that artificial sand wash-over in Koncha-Zaspa is legal. In the period from 2001 to 2008 in Koncha-Zaspa on the disputed territory between Kyiv and the Kyiv region, there was performed artificial sand wash-over for construction works on the…

On September 21, despite significant violations committed by Truskavets Dolphinarium, which are the direct grounds for terminating its activities, the Kyiv Economic Court refused to satisfy the claim justifying its decision by the statement that the method used for protection of dolphins was inadequate. However, due to the lack of a rehabilitation center, the method…