The fourth meeting of the Parties was held at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest (Romania) on 19-21 May 2008.
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Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention, 4th session
Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention, 4th session
19 - 21 May 2008
Bucharest Romania
Official Documents
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Background documents |
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Programme
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Monday |
09:00-14:00 |
Bureau meeting / EU coordination / NGO coordination |
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Lunch |
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Fourth Meeting of the Parties |
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First general segment |
15:00-18:00 |
Opening |
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19:00 |
Welcome cocktail |
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Tuesday |
(cont'd) |
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First general segment (cont'd) |
10:00-13:00 |
Panel discussion on energy-related projects…(Government speakers) |
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Lunch |
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Ministerial / High-level segment |
15:00-15:15 |
Opening ceremony |
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15:15-16:45 |
The Convention 10 years after its entry in force + way forward (invited speakers plus NGO statement) |
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16:45-17:30 |
Statements by Ministers |
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17:30-18:00 |
Signing of multilateral agreement by South-East Europe Ministers |
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18:00-19:00 |
Press conference (all ministers) |
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19:00-21:00 |
Official dinner |
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Wednesday |
(cont'd) |
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Second general segment |
10:00-11:30 |
Review of the work carried out by the Working Group and adoption of decisions |
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11:30-12:00 |
Date and venue of, and election of officers for, the fifth meeting of the Parties |
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12:00-13:00 |
Other business |
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Lunch |
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15:00-19:00 |
Cultural visit |
Presentations and Statements
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Panel discussion on energy-related projects (item 3 of agenda) |
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Biographies of speakers in the high-level segment |
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Mr. Nenad Mikulic, Ministry of Environmental and Physical Planning of Croatia, on "EIA of Natural Gas Production Field 'Northern Adriatic', Croatia - Italy" |
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Mr. Gerhard Winkelmann-Oei of Germany’s Federal Environment Agency on "Safety of Installations, Hazard Prevention & Cleaner Production" (4.3 MB) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Convention 10 years after its entry into force: future directions (item 5 of agenda) |
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Ms. Joanna Treweek on "Biodiversity and EIA in a transboundary context" |
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Ms. Elizabeth Wilson on "Environmental assessment and climate change" |
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Mr. William Sheate on "EIA and SEA: their interrelationship and role as instruments for sustainable development” |
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- briefing note |
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Mr. Lyudmil Ikonomov on "Promoting subregional cooperation, with a focus on the Black Sea subregion" (1.7 MB) |
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Mr. Andriy Andrusevych, statement on behalf of the NGOs represented at the meeting |
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Statements by Ministers (item 6 of agenda) |
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Mr. Attila Korodi, Minister of Environmental and Sustainable Development |
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Mr. Simon Papyan, First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, Armenia |
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Mr Chavdar Georgiev, Deputy Minister of Environment and Water, Bulgaria |
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Mr. Nokola Ruzinski, State Secretary, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, Croatia |
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Mr. Sasa Dragin, Minister of Environmental Protection, Serbia |
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Mr. Dejan Panovski, State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Physical Planning, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
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Mr. Heorgiy Philipchuk, Minister of Environmental Protection, Ukraine |
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Slovenia on behalf of the European Union Presidency |
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Mr Jan Sorensen, United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Bucharest |
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Mr. Philip Weller, Executive Secretary, ICPDR |
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Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (1.2 MB) |
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Statements by ECO-Forum on other agenda items |
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Preparatory and Practical
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For States signing the multilateral agreement for South-Eastern Europe |
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