Events and Announcements

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…

Kyiv, 15 September 2017 How can each one of us make the change happen in waste management in Ukraine? On 26-27 September 2017, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” and NGO “Environmental initiatives” are holding the seminar “How can the public influence behaviour change in waste management in Ukraine?” The seminar intends to promote eco-friendly behaviour and…

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…