EPL documents

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…

In late March, we reported that at its forty-eighth meeting (Geneva, 24-27 March 2015), the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee considered the preliminary admissibility of communication PRE/ACCC/C/2014/118 concerning Ukraine submitted by NGO “Environment-People-Law” on 18 November 2014. The communication alleges that in 2013 during preparation and conclusion of the product sharing agreements regarding Yuzivska and Oleska…

The 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention) is held in Maastricht (Netherlands) from 30 June till 2 July 2014. In the meeting hall there are over 450 official delegates and representatives of the public from…

Updated on March 2010 Prepared by: Yelyzaveta Aleksyeyeva, Senior Lawyer, EPL EPL as the organization which constantly follows on the process on transposing the provisions of the Aarhus Convention into the domestic legislation, actively uses the rights enshrined in the Convention, as the organization which in 2004 initiated a case in Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee…

November, 2010Prepared by Yelyzaveta Aleksyeyeva, EPL’s senior lawyer Having in mind that on its 30th meeting the Compliance Committee will review the progress of the Government of Ukraine in implementing MOP decision III/6f, EPL submits this assessment to update the Committee on how the situation has changed since EPL presented its view on the state…

UkraineEnvironment-People-Law, an NGO from UkraineQuestions to the NGOsI. Your comments on the national reporting process under the Aarhus Convention:a. Was the process of the National Implementation Report (NIR) development in your country participatory in general (was it more participatory than the process of the previous NIR development in 2007-2008)? No, the process of NIR 2010/11…

Statement by Environment-People-Law for the 40th meeting of the АССС

This document was developed by Environment – People – Law within the framework of the project Promotion of European Standards of Environmental Impact Assessment in Ukraine in 2013. The analytical document brings together requirements of three international instruments in the field of environmental impact assessment, including those on transboundary procedures and public participation. Despite the…

EPL comments on the proposed draft law amending the Article 25 of the Law of Ukraine “On environmental protection” regarding the definition of environmental information By the proposed draft law the Government of Ukraine strives to integrate the provisions of Aarhus Convention regarding the definition of environmental information into domestic legislation. Nevertheless, the proposed draft…