The quarterly magazine of the Regional Environmental Center
for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
The Bulletin is the quarterly magazine of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC). The Bulletin assists the REC to fulfil its mission, namely to promote public participation in environmental decision-making by providing information on the environment and encouraging cooperation among regional stakeholders. By supporting environmental non-governmental organisations, 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 25 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 ASSISSTANT: Marton Burger
EDITORIAL BOARD: Robert Atkinson, Gerald Fancoj, Jerome Simpson, Stephen Stec
CONTRIBUTORS: Albena Arnaudova, Robert Atkinson, Lee Davis Laurence Dawson, Janet Eaton, Earth Day 2000, Ekofond Uzice, Nicole Etchart, Emese Gal, Green Line, Betsy Hoffmeister, Alexander Juras, Hadley Kincade, Kai Kipper, MTI, Magda Toth Nagy, Tom Popper, Sarah Roe, Jerome Simpson, Jernej Stritih, Emilia Szewczyk, Ann Tartre, WOLF FPM
REC BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Thomas Becker, Tom Garvey, Robert Herbst, Hiroyuki Ishi, Anna Kalinowska, Bedrich Moldan, Dana,icolescu, 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
