The Bulletin
A quarterly of the Regional Environmental Center
for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)


THE BULLETIN is the quarterly newsletter of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC). THE BULLETIN assists the REC to fulfill its mission, namely to promote public participation in environmental decisionmaking by providing information on the environment and encouraging cooperation among regional stakeholders. By supporting environmental nongovernmental organizations, local authorities, national governments, academic institutions, the media and businesses in 15 Central and Eastern European countries, the REC hopes to act as a catalyst for developing solutions to environmental problems and to promote the development of civil society in the region.

The REC was established in 1990 by the United States, the European Commission and Hungary. Today, the REC is legally based on a Charter signed by the governments of twenty-five countries and the European Commission, and on an International Agreement with the Government of Hungary. The REC has its head office in Szentendre, Hungary and Local Offices in each of its 15 beneficiary CEE countries which are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Yugoslavia.

Recent donors are the European Commission and the governments of the United States, Japan, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, as well as other inter-governmental and private institutions.


EDITOR: Paul Csagoly

DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Sylvia Magyar

EDITORIAL BOARD: Robert Atkinson, Gerald Fancoj, Betsy Hyman, Solomon Ioannou, Jerome Simpson, Stephen Stec

CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Atkinson, Kelly Duffy, Bela Dusha, Greenpeace, Laszlo Falvay, Gerald Fancoj, Balazs Karman, Hadley Kincade, Iza Kruszewska, Kemal Kurspahic, Lithuanian Fund for Nature, Christian Lugusi, MTI, Entela Pinguli, Zoran Ras, Bozo Stefanovic, Sarah Roe, Phillipe Rousseau, Rossen Roussev, Alexandru Savulescu, Dragan Simic, Jerome Simpson, Jernej Stritih

REC BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Tom Garvey, Robert Herbst, Hiroyuki Ishi, Karol Karski, Katharina Kummer, Bedrich Moldan, Dana Nicolescu, Istvan Tokes


The views and opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Regional Environmental Center.


THE BULLETIN is published and distributed free to all interested parties. It is available electronically on the World Wide Web by pointing your client to http://greenhorizon.rec.org/bulletin/recbull.html

Please direct all correspondence to:

The Editor, THE BULLETIN
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Head Office
Ady Endre út 9-11, 2000 Szentendre, Hungary
Tel: (36-26) 504-000
Fax: (36-26) 311-294
E-mail: editor@rec.org

REC * PUBLICATIONS * THE BULLETIN * SPRING 1998

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