CEELI Law Report
Public input wanted for Romanian law
The Romanian Chamber of Deputies has announced a procedure for public
participation in the drafting of three environmental laws. The three
laws under consideration concern water, safe nuclear activities, and
hunting re-sources. Public comments will be coordinated by the expert
body attached to the environmental commission of the Chamber of
Deputies. The Ecological Group for Cooperation will collect comments
and submit them to the Commission. Comments may be submitted directly
to the Parliament by mail or through a deputy. Copies of draft laws and
relevant files are available.
Contact:
REC Local Office Romania or Dan Manoleli
Ecological Group for Cooperation
Calea Victoriei 120
Bucharest, Romania
Tel/fax: (40-1) 683-2188, 312-4528
Environmental advocacy network formed
The Environmental Public Advocacy Center Project has begun
establishing a network of legal professionals interested in
environmental protection in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly
Independent States. The network will facilitate exchanges of practical
legal experience aimed at: (1) identifying obstacles to public interest
advocacy in the region, and (2) promoting solutions that will lead to
more effective public participation. A key element of the project is
the establishment of Environmental Public Advocacy Centers (EPACs) as
network nodes in each country.
FYR Macedonia to reorganize ministry
Because of a reorganization in the FYR Macedonian government, Central
and Eastern Europe will lose one of its more colorfully named
communist-era institutions. The Ministry of Urbanistics, Traffic,
Construction, and Ecology is about to be unjumbled, but the exact split
is still under debate. At the moment discussions about how to divide
the ministry into two new ministries revolve around whether ecology
should be grouped with urbanistics or constitutes a separate ministry.
Meanwhile, a vote on the framework environmental law, which has been on
the floor of Parliament for several months, has been sent back to the
government, with instructions to reduce environmental taxes and extend
deadlines for factory reconstruction. Work is also proceeding on draft
laws on water and forests.
The CEELI Law Report is edited by Stephen Stec of the Central and East
European Law Initiative of the American Bar Association. Please report
any developments in environmental law in or affecting the Region.
Contact:
Stephen Stec
EPAC Project Director
Central and East European Law Initiative
American Bar Association
Tel/fax: (36-1) 131-8082
or at the REC: Fax (36-1) 250-3403
THE BULLETIN * WINTER 1994