The roundtable is organized by the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Regional Environmental Center for Caucasus (RECC) in the framework of the EU funded Programme ‘Greening the Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood’.  

The aim of the roundtable is to present and discuss necessary amendments of the Law on EIA and Expertise in order to fully transpose provisions of the UNECE Protocol on SEA to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention). The feedback from the relevant national stakeholders will be utilized during the work on the revisions of the Law.

Representatives of the relevant ministries (i.e. Ministry of Nature Protection, Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations, Ministry of Health, etc.), UNECE Secretariat, international organizations, NGOs, as well as the national and international experts involved in the preparation of the legal amendments will be invited to attend the meeting.

The roundtable will be followed by the internal meeting of the working group on the Law amendments to agree on the approach and develop the detailed workplan.