TAI Europe • TAI Europe partners and assessment status• Networking events 2004-2006• Current scope of work• Regional Report communication and outreach• PP10 relevant activities• Fundraising• Achievements and obstacles

TAI-Europe - Presentation

TAI Global MeetingBangkok, Thailand25-27 April, 2006

TAI Europe partners

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Country TAI Partner

Bulgaria Access to Information Programme (AIP)

Estonia Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre (SEI-Tallinn)

Hungary Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA)

Ireland The Centre for Sustainability, IT Sligo

Latvia REC Latvia (REC)

Lithuania Environmental Center for Administration and Technology (ECAT)

Poland Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD)

Portugal Intercooperação e Desenvolvimento

Ukraine EcoPravo – Kiev

   

Germany  

Kazakhstan  

UK  

Assessment status = 1st: Bulgaria,

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine

= 2nd: Hungary = Ver2.0 in the water

sector: Estonia, Ireland = planning: Germany,

Ireland, UK+ Kazakhstan

) = transboundary case studies

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Networking events 2004-2006

• Regional Meeting of the TAI National Teams from Europe (2004, Budapest, Hungary)

European Strategy • Second Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention

(2005, Almaty, Kazakhstan) Party Implementation Reports

• TAI Europe and PP10 Regional Meeting(2005, Warsaw, Poland)

Advocacy and outreach strategies

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Regional Report analysis and synthesis of 9 national assessments and an international conference

assessment methodology commenting and forwarding comments

testing the assessment methodology Ver2.0

case studies in the transboundary context (project level decision-making in transportation and water management, bilateral policy decision-making (agreements on transboundary EIA), regulatory decision-making in land use, access to monitoring information on air quality)

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Scope of work

Regional Report(structure)

• main findings, conclusions and recommendations organized around:

• issue scores• law and practice• country comparisons

• analysis by issue• analysis by country • „Aarhus Tagging”

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Aarhus Tagging• direct link to Aarhus Convention articles• comparison with Party Implementation Reports

Example:

# Indicator Text Text Version1.1Aarhus Mapping

1

How clear and inclusive are constitutional guarantees to the right to a clean and/or safe environment?

Capacity/Law 2 The right to a clean environment

Preamble para 5,6,7; Art 1; Art 3/1

2

How clear and inclusive are constitutional guarantees to the right of access to information held at public bodies?

Information/Law 1 - Right to access to public interest information

Preamble para 8,9,11,17; Art 1; Art 3/1

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Communication and outreach

• Products: Brochure Internet forum Web development Banner

• Outreach strategy: media plan toolkit for national teams preparation of mailing lists banner and consistent design identification of contact persons in national media as

well as in regional media template for notifying the media national success stories in implementing access rights

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PP10 relevant activities

• official endorsement by the minister of environment (Poland)

• use of assessment results in work planning by ministry of environment (Lithuania)

• ministry of environment participation in the assessment review panel (Estonia, Hungary, Poland)

• participation of ministry of environment officials at the draft assessment report presentation (Hungary, Poland)

• acceptance of recommendations of the assessment in ministry of environment work (Estonia, Lithuania)

• active work in the Aarhus Working Group of the ministry of environment (Hungary)

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Fundraising

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ISD (Poland) DG Justice Regional Report, assessment methodology, transboundary issues

Success

EMLA (Hungary) The Presidency Fund Europe-Asia relationships and making change in the development policies of EU institutions towards Asia

Failure

EMLA (Hungary) EEA Grants TAI European coordination3rd national assessment

Pending

The Presidency Fund Europe-Asia relationships and making change in the development policies of EU institutions towards Asia

Future