Events and Announcements

On June, 11, 2013 the District administrative court of Kyiv scheduled the first court hearing in a case initiated by EPL against the Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine alleging the illegality of the preparation of the draft law  «On placement, projecting and construction of blocks 3 and 4 at KhNPP». This law…

On 23-24 May 2013, the Polish city of Wrocław will host a scientific conference entitled “EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive – challenges and perspectives in the light of the past experiences and the recent proposal for amendment”. The conference will be hosted by Law Faculty of the Wrocław University and according to preliminary registration will…

On May 23, 2013 the Administrative court of the city of Kyiv opened proceedings on the lawsuit filed by Environment-People-Law against the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine regarding limited access of the public to information regarding a product sharing agreement signed by the Government of Ukraine and Shell. By this agreement, the Government vested investors…

On 22 May, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy, Use of Natural Resources and Liquidation of Consequences of Chornobyl Disaster held hearings entitled “Environmental problems of shale gas extraction in Ukraine” initiated and organized by the head of the Committee Iryna Sekh. The Committee hearings were attended by deputies, staff of the Verkhovna Rada…

“Ukrainian media disseminate legends about successful technologies of shale gas extraction in the territory of the USA and wide support of American people for these technologies. However, according to official studies of the Environmental Protection Agency of the USA, up to 20% – 40% of the chemicals remain underground, they are biologically undegradable and contaminate…

On May 23-24, the University of Wroclaw hosted the annual conference of the Environmental Law Network International – EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive – challenges and perspectives in the light of the past experiences and the recent proposal for amendment. Legal experts from EPL and many other organizations, including governmental bodies, throughout Europe and outside…

Dear friends, ELAW Fellow Nataliya Horodetska arrived from Lviv on Sunday. This is orientation week for her at the University of Oregon’s American English Institute. Nataliya will be with us for 10 weeks, to collaborate on her work as Legal Advisor at Environment People Law and improve her English.

The Center for Political and Legal Reforms together with experts from NGOs within a project “Public enforcement of independence and fairness of courts” developed a list of five top court decisions in Ukraine important for human rights protection. The selection was made on the basis of five criteria: importance of protected rights, potential or actual…

The level of trust to judicial system in Ukraine is very low, this being caused by numerous biased decisions and selective justice. However, there is a ray of hope in this situation as there are some court decisions ensuring real protection for human rights. The Center for Political and Legal Reforms together with experts from…

Earlier EPL informed that in November 2012 the appellate court upheld a lower court decision from October 2011 ordering the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine to post full texts of all EIA decision taken over three years. In 2011 the administrative court met Environmental-People-Law’s (EPL) claim and declared that failure of the…