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    <description>RSS feed on the UNECE Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Transboundary Context (Espoo, 1991) and its Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (Kiev, 2003).</description>
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      <title>Implementation Committee decides caution to Government of Ukraine not to become effective</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:37:15 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/implementation_committee_meetings.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Implementation Committee decided on 30 October 2008 that the caution to the Government of Ukraine regarding the Bystroe Canal Project should not become effective.]]></description>
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      <title>EU Council of Ministers approved SEA Protocol on behalf of EC</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:12:42 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/sea_protocol.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The European Union's Council of Ministers approved (or ratified) the UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment on 20 October 2008. An instrument of approval still has to be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York for the European Community to become a Party to the Protocol.]]></description>
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      <title>Report of 4th meeting of the Parties in English, French and Russian</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:14:03 +0200</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/mop.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Report of the 4th meeting of the Parties (Bucharest, 19-21 May 2008) now available in English, French and Russian.]]></description>
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      <title>17-19 November 2008: Subregional Workshop for South-Eastern Europe, Koprivshtitsa (Bulgaria)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:04:54 +0200</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/activityEIAsubregion.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This Workshop provide for an exchange of experience among countries in the subregion on the relationship between project-level environmental impact assessment and the strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes. The Workshop will also review progress towards the entry into force of the Bucharest Agreement supporting implementation of the Convention in the subregion.]]></description>
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      <title>Postponed: Subregional Workshop on a pilot project in Central Asia, Bishkek</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:58:18 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/central_asia.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A pilot project (for a gold-mine) involving Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan has been completed. The two countries will present this project to the other Central Asian countries at the Workshop. This Workshop will prepare draft decisions for a Ministerial Meeting on possible follow-up action. Workshop postponed from 12-14 November 2008]]></description>
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      <title>5-7 November 2008: Subregional Workshop on Capacity-building for the Espoo Convention, Chisinau</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:53:24 +0200</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/activityEIAsubregion.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The workshop will include a review of relevant legislation and administrative regulations for the implementation of the Convention in the countries of Eastern Europe, in particular. The workshop will also identify possible solutions for improving practical experience of EIA, in particular in a transboundary context.]]></description>
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      <title>28-30 October 2008: meeting of the Convention's Implementation Committee, Geneva</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:51:27 +0200</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/implementation_committee.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Implementation Committee’s objective is to review compliance by the Parties with their obligations under the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context with a view to assisting them fully to meet their commitments. In this session, the Committee will consider whether the Government of Ukraine has fulfilled the conditions set by the 4th Meeting of the Parties (May 2008) with regard to the “Bystroe Canal Project”. If these conditions have not been satisfied, the caution to the Government of Ukraine issued by the Meeting of the Parties will become effective on 31 October 2008. Further, to ensure Parties’ full implementation of the Convention, and as decided by the Meeting of the Parties, the Committee will discuss the nomination and financing of consultants to undertake: (a) an independent review of Ukraine’s legal, administrative and other measures to implement the Convention; and (b) technical assistance in drafting the necessary legislation to support Armenia. The Committee is also expected to identify an outline workplan based on a review of decisions taken by the Meeting of the Parties, and to consider general and specific compliance issues identified in the Review of Implementation of the Convention. The Committee may also examine any other compliance matter of which it may become aware.]]></description>
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      <title>Report of 4th meeting of Parties</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/mop.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Report of the 4th meeting of the Parties (Bucharest, 19-21 May 2008) now available in English.]]></description>
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      <title>Belgrade Initiative on SEA</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/sea/belgrade_initiative.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Informal report of second working meeting on the Belgrade SEA Initiative, held in Chisinau in June 2008, available in English and Russian.]]></description>
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      <title>EIA/SEA UPDATE Newsletter</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/newsletters.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[July 2008 issue of the newsletter providing informal information on the Espoo Convention and its Protocol on SEA. 
This edition provides information on the outcomes of the May 2008 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention.]]></description>
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      <title>Ratifications in July 2008</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.unece.org/env/eia/ratification.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Luxembourg became the ninth Party to Protocol on SEA on 2 July 2008 and Spain became the 12th Party to the first amendment to the Espoo Convention on 16 July 2008.]]></description>
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