Background documents

Key issues, documents and timetable - information for delegates

Status of ratification (summary), as at 12 February 2009 (90 days before end of meeting) - latest situation

Draft questionnaire on implementation of the Convention in the period 2006-2009

Proposed timetable for submission of completed questionnaires and for the generation of the subsequent third review of implementation

Information on the Multilateral agreement among the countries of South-Eastern Europe for implementation of the Convention (Bucharest, 2008)

Programme for seminar on large-scale projects

Parts Two and Three of “Current Policies, Strategies and Aspects of Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context”, 1996, number 6 in the environment series (ECE/CEP/9) (2 Mbytes) - this document will also be made available in the meeting room

Checklist for financial institutions on projects with transboundary impacts

Evaluation report: Training on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA); Development and testing of a case study and training for participants from Balkan countries and territories; 22-26 September 2008; Prague

Information on the Belgrade Initiative on SEA

Biannual financial report, to 31 December 2008 - earlier financial reports

Latest financial contributions, as at 15 April 2009

Checklist for financial institutions, by Ms. Elizabeth Smith, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Seminar on large-scale projects (agenda item 5(a))

Secretariat's note of the application of the Convention to complex activities

Nord Stream: application of Espoo Convention - Presentation by Parties of Origin, by Seija Rantakallio (Finland), Sten Jerdenius (Sweden), Laila Wieth-Knudsen (Denmark) and Matthias Sauer (Germany)

The Nord Stream Project: The experience gained by Poland (affected Party), by Mr. Artur Kawicki, Gaz-System SA (Poland) (3.3 Mbyte)

Application of the Espoo Convention: The Nord Stream Project - Developer’s Experience, by Dirk von Ameln and Werner Zirnig, Nord Stream AG

The SKANLED project, by Laila Wieth-Knudsen (Denmark) and Egon Enocksson (Sweden)

Lessons learnt from past experience and their implementation in future large-scale transboundary projects, by Mr. Artur Kawicki, Gaz-System SA (Poland)

Complex Projects and Issues:Implementing the Principles of the Implementing the Principles of the Espoo Convention, by Ms. Elizabeth Smith, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Transboundary EIA in the Arctic, by Mr. Timo Koivurova, Lapland University

Meeting registration form

Practical information for delegates and visitors

Rules of Procedure
Decision I/1 of the Meeting of the Parties