Workshop to Promote the Ratification of Protocols of the UNECE Air Convention with Focus on Countries in the EECCA Region

Session 1 Part 1: Different BAT approaches in different  regions                                      

Provisions on BATs in the Protocols to the Convention and capacity-building activities managed by the Secretariat,

Ketevan Kordzakhia, Secretariat of the LRTAP Convention

Defining BAT under the Industrial Emissions Directive – History and Procedures

Thomas Brinkmann, European IPPC Bureau Seville

BAT approaches around the world – results from a research project

Marit Hjort, OECD

Session 1 Part 2: State of the Art in Eastern Europe and beyond

First experience from development and implementation BAT in Russia  – a Russian- German BAT Project

Irina Korolenko, GIZ Germany

Implementation of the Gothenburg Protocol before actual Ratification (including BAT issues)

Aksana Yuchkovich, Belarus 

Example from India – Implementation of BAT in the Textile Industry

Chirag Bhirmany, India

Application of BAT in China

Li Peng, China

Session 2: BAT in other Conventions and Treaties

Technology in the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Tiziano Pignatelli, Italy

UNEP Minamata Convention

Eisaku Toda, UNEP Secretariat

Reduction of BC from Small Sources (SLCF)

ACAP, ICCI

Application of BAT in practices of the European Investment Bank

Angela Filipas, EIB

Session 3: BAT for priority sectors identified in the EECCA countries

Technical and economic aspects of BAT implementation in existing plants in the cement industry

Dr Giovanni Cinti, Italcementi, Italy

Inspection and monitoring according European Industrial Emissions Directive using an example from the cement industry in Bavaria

Dr. Ebertsch, Regional Authorities Bavaria, Germany

Code of good practice for solid fuel burning and small combustion installations

Tiziano Pignatelli, Italy

Cross-media effects and monitoring in BAT reference documents (BREFs)

Thomas Brinkmann, IPPCB Seville   

Session 4: Modelling, Monitoring, Reporting

Model assessment of HM and POP pollution of the EECCA region

Oleg Travnikov, MSC - East

Monitoring in the EECCA region

Wenche Aas, CCC

Application of the TFTEI Cost Methodology –newest developments

Nadine Allemand , Citepa

Costs of inaction- OECD Study on Air Pollution

Tiziano Pignatelli/ Stefan Aström

Session 5: Activities in the EECCA region to facilitate the implementation of BAT

BAT in Russia: development of the legal framework and implementation

Viktoria Ventchikowa, Russia

Practical questions of implementing BAT (and limitations) in Belarus and across the EECCA region

Andrej Pilipchuk, Belarus

Experience from implementing BAT in Bulgaria

Ivan Angelov, Bulgaria

Results from the Questionnaires

Nadine Allemand, CITEPA

The current status of issues related to air pollution/air quality protectio, BAT implementation in Georgia

Nino Obolashvili, Georgia

Transition of Kazakhstan to BAT implementation

Saule Sabiyeva, Kazakhstan

BAT in Ukraine

Yuliia Rymarieva, Ukraine