Events and Announcements

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…

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…