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AC-IMPEL AC-IMPEL is working hard to network among the CEE-EU candidate
countries. The Work Programme has
been set and is being implemented. It
includes review of national legislation and reports on progress in
implementing European Union legislation in each of the countries in line for
accession into the European Union, inspector exchange programs, training and
information exchange, and multilateral projects proposed by members with an
opportunity to participate in IMPEL projects. Its focus is both nature conservation and pollution control. ECA-INECE The Europe Central Asia INECE network (ECA-INECE) is
planning to hold their second meeting, the first since the Monterey meeting.
The meeting is planned to be held in Chisinau, Moldova on September 23 and
24. In addition, a meeting sponsored
by the World Bank to discuss Environmental Impact Analysis will be held in
the same location on September 25. Representatives from The Netherlands, the United States,
the OECD, which is sponsoring the meeting, the World Bank and other
organizations will also attend. In
addition, it is expected that there will be significant NGO representation at
the meeting. This meeting will
continue the process begun in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1998 which established
the role for the ECA‑INECE network. The Chisinau meeting will focus on the issues in the Newly
Independent States (NIS) as well as the other Central and East European
countries that make up ECA-INECE. The
main objectives of the meeting will be to: · provide a continuing forum for sharing experiences in environmental law enforcement and discussing problems and opportunities in ensuring compliance with environmental compliance; · review a draft survey of environmental compliance and enforcement in the NIS; · to develop recommendations for strengthening environmental compliance and enforcement in the region. The meeting will also provide an opportunity for
discussing the possibility of launching a Network on environmental compliance
and enforcement in the NIS. The
relationships between this potential network and other existing groups will
also be discussed. The meeting will be conducted in Russian with English-Russian
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