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High-level Judicial Seminar on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters for the South Eastern European region

High-level Judicial Seminar on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters for the South Eastern European region

16 - 18 November 2008
Tirana Albania

The second subregional workshop for senior members of the judiciary took place on 17-18 November 2008 in the capital of Albania, Tirana. The workshop brought together senior judges from the subregion, as well as several senior judges from the EU countries and international environmental law experts. It followed the general model of the earlier Kiev workshop.

The workshop, organized in cooperation with Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), was financially supported by contributions from the Government of France, the OSCE fund and the trust fund of the Aarhus Convention.

Workshop materials        
Agenda of the workshop   ENG    
Report of the workshop for high-level judiciary on access to justice in SEE   ENG FRE RUS
Recommendations by the participants of the workshop   ENG    
List of participants   ENG    
Case studies   ENG    
Role of the Judiciary in the implementation and enforcement of international environmental law, Presentation by Prof. Luc Lavrysen, Judge, Constitutional Court of Belgium, President, European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE)   ENG    
Introduction to the Aarhus Convention: its development and role in the context of international environmental law, Jeremy Wates, Secretary to the Convention, UNECE   ENG    
Aarhus Convention Compliance Review Mechanism and article 9 of the Convention, Presentation by Prof. Jerzy Jendroska, University of Opole   ENG    
Article 9 of the Aarhus Convention: Overview, Presentation by Prof. Jerzy Jendroska, University of Opole   ENG    
Article 9, paragraph 1, of the Aarhus Convention, Presentation by Dr. Stephen Stec, CEU   ENG    
Article 9, para. 1, of the Aarhus Convention: some current issues under French Law, , Ms. Frédérique Agostini, Cour de Cassation, France   ENG    
Article 9, paras 1 and 3 of the Aarhus Convention: current issues under French Law, Ms. Frédérique Agostini, Cour de Cassation, France   ENG    
Article 9, paragraph 2, of the Aarhus Convention: legal requirements , Presentation by Prof. Jerzy Jendroska, University of Opole   ENG    
Aarhus-related cases of the Belgian Constitutional Court, Presentation by Prof. Luc Lavrysen, Judge, Constitutional Court of Belgium   ENG    
Relevant Belgian cases   ENG (Case 1)
ENG (Case 2)
   
Article 9, paragraph 3, of the Aarhus Convention, Presentation by Dr. Stephen Stec, CEU   ENG    
Article 9, para. 3, of the Aarhus Convention: some current issues under French Law, , Ms. Frédérique Agostini, Cour de Cassation, France   ENG    
Implementation of the Access to Justice pillar of the Aarhus Convention in SEE, Mr. Mihalaq Qirijo, Regional Environmental Center   ENG    
Environmental NGOs in SEE: Survey, Findings, Analysis and Recommendations, Mr. Mihalaq Qirijo, Regional Environmental Center   ENG    
Justice through environmental courts: lessons learnt from the Swedish experience, Prof. Jan Darpö, University of Uppsala   ENG