27 February 2013
Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency / KEPA with the support of the European Commission / TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange), organized a workshop on "Implementation of the EU Directive on access to environmental information and the Aarhus Convention in Kosovo"
The purpose of this workshop was to strengthen the capacity of the national environmental institutions of Kosovo for the implementation of EU Directive on access to environmental information and the Aarhus Convention, for accession to environmental information, public participation in decision-making as well as the right to address the court on environmental issues.
Six experts from different countries of the European Union have presented their experiences of the implementation of these two important international environmental acts. The meeting was mainly attended by representatives of national environmental institutions, whose work is closely related to the implementation of the EU Directive on access to environmental information and the Aarhus Convention, in addition representatives and experts from Non-Governmental Environmental Organizations were attendees in this workshop.
For further information, see the conclusions, recommendations and workshop presentations.
Conclusions and recommendations
Workshop presentations can be found in the below listed link
http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex/dyn/taiex-events/library/detail_en.jsp?EventID=50080