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The Assistance Programme: The Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents

05 October 2010
TEIA_AssisProgr

Available in English and Russian

(ECE/CP.TEIA/21)

New York and Geneva, 2010

The Assitance Programme was launched in 2004 in order to support Parties and ECE countries with economies in transition to improve industrial safety. It is a needs-based effort developed to enhance the capacities of countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South Eastern Europe in implementing the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents.

Contents

Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents

History of the Assistance Programme

Preventing industrial accidents

Response to industrial accidents

Is the Programme effective?