Events and Announcements

In February 2017, two committees of multilateral environmental agreements reviewed the progress in Ukraine’s implementation of its international obligations directly related to the adoption of the law on environmental impact assessment. On 20-22 February 2017, there was held the meeting of the Implementation Committee of the Espoo Convention (the Convention on the Assessment of the…

On February 22, 2017, the Ministry of Environment hosted the working meeting regarding creation of a unified electronic system of access to information on permits, reports, inspection materials in the field of environmental protection, which is a priority anti-corruption measures of the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine for implementation of the Resolution of the Cabinet…

Since autumn 2016, EPL team has been advising residents of Tlumach district of Ivano-Frankivsk region, who learned of the decision of Tlumach District Administration №109 “On approval of the detailed plan of the territory outside the settlements of Hrushkivska, Havrylyatska, Hotymyrska village councils for building farm facilities on the farming land” adopted in February 2016….

V. Sereda, the village mayor of Plesetske village in Kyiv oblast, appealed to the head of the Kyiv Regional Council H. Starikov with the request to prevent the establishment of a new national park in Kyiv oblast. The creation of the national nature parks “Pryirpinnya and Chernechyi lis”1 was initiated by scholars and activists of…

On 4 October 2016, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Strategic Environmental Assessment”. The adoption of the law was stipulated primarily by Ukraine’s international obligations within the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context. According to the…

On February 7, 2017, the Implementation Committee of the Espoo Convention (Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context) published a report of its thirty-seventh session, held on 12-14 December 2016 in Geneva. At this session, the Committee examined among other issues Ukraine’s progress in implementation of the decision on non-compliance of the state…

We continuing analyzing losses of natural reserve fund in the regions of Ukraine and next goes Zaporizhzhia region, which has the most developed agricultural sector. In the region, there are 336 objects of protected areas totally covering 152422.9624 hectares. The actual area of protected areas in the region is 124242.9624 ha, ie 4.57% of the…

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…