The International meeting “Strengthening activities of the civil society in the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions” took place in August, 23–25, 2011 in Moscow (Russia), held by ANO “Centre for International Projects” (ANO CIP).

ANO CIP is the “Regional Centre of the Basel Convention for training and technology transfer” and the “Regional Centre of the Stockholm Convention on capacity building and technology transfer in Central and Eastern Europe” financed by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention.

The meeting was attended by representatives of state authorities in the field of environment protection and non-governmental organizations from the Republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russian Federation and Ukraine.

As a representative of the Ukrainian NGOs at the event Olga Tsygulyova, the coordinator of the Chemical Safety program was invited to take part in the event. 

Ukraine is a Party of the three conventions on chemical safety: Basel Convention on controlling of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal (01.07.1999), Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in international trade (26.09.2002) and Stockholm Conventions on Protection of Human Health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (18.04.2007).

Participants shared experiences in implementation of the three conventions at the national level, information on the participation of NGOs and civil society in implementing the three Conventions commitments in their countries and in the solution of problems of chemical safety on the whole.

The organizers provided information about the decisions of the extraordinary Conference of the Parties of the three conventions to enhance cooperation and coordination (synergism) between them. There the problem of the involvement of civil society in achieving synergies within these international agreements, as well as development of a common approach to the preparation and spreading information materials and holding informational and educational campaigns in the countries were discussed.

For more information about the meeting, please, visit the web-site

http://www.cip-pops.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=44&lang=ru

The materials of the meeting:

1. Programme (rus)
2. Report (rus)
3. Conclusions and reccomendations