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391. (2017-09-16)
... Kyiv, 15 September 2017 How can each one of us make the change happen in waste management in Ukraine? On 26-27 September 2017, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” and NGO “Environmental initiatives” are holding the seminar “How can the public influence behaviour change in waste management in Ukraine?” The seminar intends to promote eco-friendly behaviour and... ...
392.Ukraine’s Aarhus victories: our sincere greetings (2017-09-14)
... Today, on September 14th, the high-level segment of the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) was held in the city of Budva (Montenegro). More than four hundred official delegates and NGO representatives from... ...
393.Round table discussion: «How to introduce the European hierarchy of solid domestic waste management in Ukraine?» (2017-09-12)
... On 29 September 2017, the Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR), International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) and Environmental Initiative (EI) NGO are holding the round table discussion “How to introduce the European hierarchy of solid domestic waste management in Ukraine?” covering various aspects of waste management, from financing to legal questions, providing also best EU... ...
394.What is the clue to Swedish effectiveness of waste management? (2017-09-08)
... Sophia Shutiak, EPL lawyer, was looking for the answer to the question at the meeting of Avfall Sverige company – the Swedish Waste Management Association.1 As explained Jon Nilsson–Djerf, the representative of the Association, Sweden has a complex system of waste collection that is very effective. But Swedes are modest and say that there is... ...
395.What is the clue to Swedish effectiveness of waste management? (2017-09-08)
... Sophia Shutiak, EPL lawyer, was looking for the answer to the question at the meeting of Avfall Sverige company – the Swedish Waste Management Association.1 As explained Jon Nilsson–Djerf, the representative of the Association, Sweden has a complex system of waste collection that is very effective. But Swedes are modest and say that there is... ...
396.Environment-People-Law’s position statement on compliance by Ukraine (2017-09-06)
... On the eve of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention, Environment-People-Law (hereinafter – EPL) wishes to express its position as to the draft decision on general issues of compliance, particularly with regard to the issue of Ukraine’s compliance with the Aarhus Convention. EPL is the Communicant on the ACCC case with regard... ...
397.Immunity of Bilyky pig farm (2017-07-01)
... Scandalous1 pig farm Ltd. “Silski traduciyi” (Bilyky village, Poltava region), beginning from August 2016 is blocking the work of controling bodies. Thus, representatives of the State Environmental Inspection from August 2016 until April 2017 eight times tried to conduct unscheduled inspections, but all of these attempts were finished by non-admission and composition of the Act... ...
398.A criminal proceeding regarding the fact of destroying the monument of nature in the Dnipropetrovsk region has been initiated (2017-06-29)
... Destruction of the monument of nature “Arkose sandstones outcropping” located in Shirokivskyi district became the reason for the prosecution. The People’s Deputy Ihor Lutsenko was informed about this by the prosecutor’s office of Dnipropetrovsk region. Environmental scientists of EPL, whose request served as the basis for initiating the proceeding, noted that this is perhaps the... ...
399.A criminal proceeding regarding the fact of destroying the monument of nature in the Dnipropetrovsk region has been initiated (2017-06-29)
... Destruction of the monument of nature “Arkose sandstones outcropping” located in Shirokivskyi district became the reason for the prosecution. The People’s Deputy Ihor Lutsenko was informed about this by the prosecutor’s office of Dnipropetrovsk region. Environmental scientists of EPL, whose request served as the basis for initiating the proceeding, noted that this is perhaps the... ...
400.Illegal forest logging in Tsumanska Pushcha as a result of bureaucratic “ping-pong’ (2017-06-21)
... EPL continues to study the situation with forestry management within protected areas. As a result of this study we discovered facts indicating that, despite the statements of the forestry authorities, on-site unscrupulous forest management units continue to use all opportunities to log maximum amount of forest within protected areas. This time “the hero” became one... ...
