Eighth Seminar of Cooperation on the Espoo Convention in the Baltic Sea Region

Vilnius

Eighth Seminar of Cooperation on the EIA convention in the Baltic Sea Region will take place in Vilnius from 28 to 29 September 2015. With a view to promoting cooperation and synergies among the UNECE instruments, the seminar will focus on two themes:

1) Assessment and reduction of transboundary impacts on transboundary watercourses and international lakes in the context of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention), the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to the Espoo Convention and the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Helsinki Convention); and

2) Effective public participation in SEA/EIA in the context of the Espoo Convention, the Protocol on SEA and the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention). These topics were chosen to encourage the cooperation and synergies that can be established among these agreements.