Events and Announcements

International charitable organization Environment-People-Law is pleased to announce that there has been launched a new project “Strengthening Participatory Democracy for Effective Environmental Protection in Ukraine” supported by United Nations Democracy Fund. The project is jointly realized by three organizations – International charitable organization Environment-People-Law, Kharkiv city non-governmental organization EcoPravo-Kharkiv, public environmental law organization EcoPravo-Kyiv and…

Today our country has a great historical chance to get closer to European standards of economic, social and cultural life, and we have no right to waste this chance. We all want to live in a civilized, lawful, developed and rich country with working legislation and observed human rights. We, representatives of environmental communities, know…

On 5 November 2013, Lviv was visited by Extraordinary and Plenipotential Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden Andreas von Beckerath who recently entered this post and shows sincere desire to deeply comprehend current situation in Ukraine and define the most effective ways of Swedish-Ukrainian cooperation. Within his official visit the Ambassador had a number of…

But is there time and political will for proper implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Ukraine? Does the Ministry have understanding of the spirit of the Aarhus Convention? In September 2013, EPL drew attention of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine to the critical situation with Ukraine’s compliance with the Aarhus Convention,…

On October 22, 2013 the Kiev Appeal Administrative Court left in force the decision of the District administrative court of Kyiv dated 13.08.2013 which left the EPL suit without consideration due to the expiration of the 6-months limitation period. Back in May 2013 EPL filed a suit to administrative court against the Ministry of energy…

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine as well as local prosecutor’s offices have a wide-spread practice of not considering complaints on the merit and redirecting them to a body an activity or a decision of which is challenged by a physical or legal entity. This is a violation of p. 4 Article 7 of the…

On 21-22 October 2013, Lviv hosted a round-table discussion “Implementing European standards of environmental impact assessment in Ukraine”. On the eve of the Vilnius summit and in view of Meetings  of Parties to the Aarhus and Espoo Conventions next year, Environment-People-Law (hereinafter – EPL) organized a discussion of the issue of improving the national legal…

On 9 September 2013,in Stockholm (Sweden) there started International training program on environmental governance with EU focus for officials from Balkan countries (Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo) and Ukraine. The program is realized by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) supported by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).

From January until September 2013 EPL was performing the public expertise of functioning of the Chief Statistics Administration in Lviv region analyzing the level of access to primary data that are supposed to be open. This is the third public expertise performed by EPL since entry into force of the Law of Ukraine “On Access…