ECE/MP.EIA/9
Provisional Agenda

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/1
Report of the Implementation Committee on its twelfth meeting

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/2
Report of the Implementation Committee on its thirteenth meeting

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/4
Draft decision IV/2 on the review of compliance

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/5
Report on the activities of the Implementation Committee

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/6
Findings and recommendations further to a submission by Romania regarding Ukraine (EIA/IC/S/1)

Informal addendum to the above findings and recommendations (EIA/IC/S/1/Rev.1)

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/7
Findings and recommendations further to a Committee initiative on Armenia (EIA/IC/CI/1)

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/8
Draft decision IV/4 on strengthening subregional cooperation

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/9
Draft decision IV/5 on capacity-building in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/10
Draft decision IV/7 on the adoption of the workplan

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/11
Draft decision IV/8 on the budget and financial arrangements

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/12
Draft decision IV/1 on the review of implementation

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/13
Review of the legal and administrative framework for implementation of Articles 2 and 3

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/14
Review of the legal and administrative framework for implementation of Articles 4 to 9

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/15
Review of the practical application of the Convention during the period 2003-2005

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/16
Draft decision IV/3 on inquiry procedure

ECE/MP.EIA/2008/17
Draft decision IV/6 on exchange of good practices

ECE/MP.EIA/WG.1/2007/8
Report of the Working Group on EIA on its eleventh meeting

ECE/MP.EIA/WG.1/2007/6
Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context for Central Asian Countries

Convention

Protocol on SEA

Rules of Procedure

ECE/MP.EIA/7
Guidance on public participation

ECE/MP.EIA/8
Guidance on practical application

Monday
19 May ‘08

09:00-14:00

Bureau meeting / EU coordination / NGO coordination

Lunch

Fourth Meeting of the Parties

First general segment

15:00-18:00

Opening
Constitution
Adoption of the agenda
Outstanding issues

19:00

Welcome cocktail

Tuesday
20 May ‘08

(cont'd)

First general segment (cont'd)

10:00-13:00

Panel discussion on energy-related projects…(Government speakers)

Lunch

Ministerial / High-level segment

15:00-15:15

Opening ceremony

15:15-16:45

The Convention 10 years after its entry in force + way forward (invited speakers plus NGO statement)

16:45-17:30

Statements by Ministers

17:30-18:00

Signing of multilateral agreement by South-East Europe Ministers

18:00-19:00

Press conference (all ministers)

19:00-21:00

Official dinner

Wednesday
21 May ‘08

(cont'd)

Second general segment

10:00-11:30

Review of the work carried out by the Working Group and adoption of decisions

11:30-12:00

Date and venue of, and election of officers for, the fifth meeting of the Parties

12:00-13:00

Other business
Presentation of the main decisions
Closing of the meeting

Lunch

15:00-19:00

Cultural visit

Panel discussion on energy-related projects (item 3 of agenda)

Biographies of speakers in the high-level segment

Mr. Nenad Mikulic, Ministry of Environmental and Physical Planning of Croatia, on "EIA of Natural Gas Production Field 'Northern Adriatic', Croatia - Italy"

Mr. Gerhard Winkelmann-Oei of Germany’s Federal Environment Agency on "Safety of Installations, Hazard Prevention & Cleaner Production" (4.3 MB)

Mr. Constantin Pulbere, Horizontal Legislation and Regulations Directorate of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Romania, on "Applying the Espoo Convention on Nuclear Power Plant Cernavoda units 3-4" (1 MB)

Mr. Fikret Jaffarov, of the Azerbaijan NGO "Society of Sustainable Development", on " The network development for civil control of the impacts of oil and gas operations in Azerbaijan" (1.2 MB)

The Convention 10 years after its entry into force: future directions (item 5 of agenda)

Ms. Joanna Treweek on "Biodiversity and EIA in a transboundary context"

Ms. Elizabeth Wilson on "Environmental assessment and climate change"

Mr. William Sheate on "EIA and SEA: their interrelationship and role as instruments for sustainable development”

- briefing note

Mr. Lyudmil Ikonomov on "Promoting subregional cooperation, with a focus on the Black Sea subregion" (1.7 MB)

Mr. Andriy Andrusevych, statement on behalf of the NGOs represented at the meeting

Statements by Ministers (item 6 of agenda)

Mr. Attila Korodi, Minister of Environmental and Sustainable Development

Mr. Simon Papyan, First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, Armenia

Mr Chavdar Georgiev, Deputy Minister of Environment and Water, Bulgaria

Mr. Nokola Ruzinski, State Secretary, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, Croatia

Mr. Sasa Dragin, Minister of Environmental Protection, Serbia

Mr. Dejan Panovski, State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Physical Planning, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Mr. Heorgiy Philipchuk, Minister of Environmental Protection, Ukraine

Slovenia on behalf of the European Union Presidency

Mr Jan Sorensen, United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Bucharest

Mr. Philip Weller, Executive Secretary, ICPDR

Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (1.2 MB)

Statements by ECO-Forum on other agenda items

Notes and practical information for delegates (10 April 2008)

Registration form

Information on poster displays

Outline credentials (for all delegations) - Pouvoirs - Мандат

List of participants

Evaluation by delegates - a summary

Conference poster

Multilateral Agreement among the Countries of South-Eastern Europe for Implementation of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

Outline full powers (only for States signing the multilateral agreement for South-Eastern Europe) - Pleins pouvoirs - Полномочия