Other summer guests included then-Deputy State Secretary in the Hungarian Ministry of Environment KLARA AKOTS who visited REC Head Office to attend the Determine Telematics Conference.

  SALLY HODGSON, Development Officer for the International Broadcasting Bureau, working with Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, came to the REC in July to meet with Executive Director Jernej Stritih.

  In August, GERT VAN DER MEER, CLEES VAN OIJEN and FRANS VAN DER LOO of the European Postgraduate Course in Environmental Management (EPCEM) dropped by to discuss a joint project to establish a network of environmental managers and policy-makers in the CEE region.