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This report provides an overview of the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention, including the mandate, members of the Compliance Committee, parties and civil society involvement, meetings and communications, and personal remarks.
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UNITED NATIONS _________ ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Aarhus Convention Compliance CommitteeREPORTby Veit Koester, ChairFourth session of the Meeting of the PartiesChisinau, 29 June – 1 July 2011
CONTENT 1. Mandate 2. Members of the Compliance Committee 3. Parties and civil society 4. Meetings and communications 5. Some personal remarks
Mandate • decision I/7 of the Meeting of the Parties • flexibility • recommendations subject to agreement with the Party concerned • mandate by the MOP to the WGP/Bureau? • monitoring of fulfillment of recommendations and reporting to the MOP • progressively increasing workload • mandate by the MOP to the WGP/Bureau?
Members of the Committee • Merab Barbakadze • Jonas Ebbesson • Ellen Hey • Jerzy Jendroska • Alexander Kodjabashev • Veit Koester • Svitlana Kravchenko • Gerhard Loibl • Vadim Ni
Partiesand civil society • co-operation with Parties • mutual trust and respect • co-operation with the NGO community • well prepared and reasonable communications
Meetings and communications • 13 meetings, almost all of four days • 35 communications + 4 pending • 10 inadmissible or closed without findings • 15 findings adopted + 1 partly concluded with findings in April • 1 concluded with findings in Chisinau • 12 pending and 1 partly pending