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2013-05-26T00:00:00 - 2013-05-29T00:00:00
Event description
The Working Group will meet in Room XI of the Palais des Nations. At its second meeting, the Working Group will initiate substantive preparations for the next sessions of the Meetings of the Parties to be held in 2014. It will agree on actions to ensure the rapid entry into force of the two amendments to the Convention and to widen membership of the Protocol. Delegations will be invited to report on their progress in ratifying/acceding to the amendments and the Protocol. The Chair of the Implementation Committee will inform the Working Group on the Committee's activities and invite the Working Group to agree on possible actions for assisting Parties to implement the Convention. The Working Group will also be invited to provide guidance to the secretariat for the preparation of concise reviews of implementation of the Convention and the Protocol as well as to agree on further actions for bringing into line the three language versions of the Convention. It will have the possibility to comment a draft general guidance on resolving a possible systemic inconsistency between the Convention and environmental assessment within the framework of State ecological expertise in place in several countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Date:
26 - 29 May 2013
Region:
Country:
Switzerland
Location:
Geneva