Under the Auspices of the Aarhus Convention Second Meeting of the Working Group to the Parties

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AARHUS CONVENTION
SECOND MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUP TO THE PARTIES

PALAIS DES NATIONS

3-4 May 2004

Salle VII

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Chairman: Marc Pallemaerts (Belgium)

Countries

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Participants

ARMENIA / Ms. Aida Iskoyan
Adviser of the Minister
Ministry of Nature Protection
Republic Square
3-d Building, 5th Floor
375002 Yerevan
Phone:+374 1 539 255 or +374 1 585 449
Fax:+374 1 530 669
E-mails: / /
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AUSTRIA / Mr. Dieter Beisteiner
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
Stubenbastei 5
A-1010
Vienna
Tel:+ 43 1 51522 1351
Fax:+ 43 1 51522 7301
E-mail:
BELARUS / Mrs. Natalia Fedorova
10 Kollektornaya Street
Minsk
220048
Tel:+ 375 17 220 4545
Fax:+ 375 17 220 5583
E-mail:
BELGIUM / Ms. Maud Istasse
FPS Public Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
Montagne de l’Oratoire 20 Bte 3
Bâtiment Vesale V712
1010 Brussels
Phone:+32 2 210 45 44
Fax:+32 2 210 46 99
E-mail:
Mr. Jan Heyman
Flemish Environment Agency
A Van de Maelestraat 96
B-9320
Erembodegem
Tel:+ 32 2 553 8048
Fax:+ 32 2 553 8165
E-mail:
Mr. Marc Pallemaerts
Professor of Environmental Law
Institute for European Studies
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050
Brussels
Tel:+ 32 2 629 1222
Fax:+ 32 2 629 1809
E-mail:
Mrs. Sigrid Raedschelders
W.Coosemansstraat 57
3010 Kessel-Lo
Leuven
Tel:+ 32 2 553 7649
Fax:+ 32 2 553 8165
E-mail:
Mr. Marc Smaers
Koning Albert II-laan
20 Bus 8
B-1000
Brussels
Tel:+ 32 2 553 8126
Fax:+ 32 2 553 8165
E-mail:
BULGARIA / Mr. Nedyalka Ilieva
State Expert
67 W. Gladstone Street
100
Sofia
Tel:+ 3592 9406299
Fax:+ 3592 9811185
E-mail:
CZECH REPUBLIC / Mr. Katel Jech
Ministry of the Environment
100 10
Vrsovicka 65
Prague 10
Tel:+ 420 267 122 419
Fax:+ 420 267 311 496
E-mail:
CROATIA / Ms. Nevenka Preradovic
Ministry of Environmental protection, Physical Planning and Construction
Ulice grade Vukonana 78
10000 Zagreb
Tel:+ 385 1 610 6286
Fax:+ 385 1 388 188
E-mail:
DENMARK / Mrs. Allette Kielberg
Strandgade 29
1401
Copenhagen K
Tel:+ 45 32 660 100
E-mail:
FINLAND / Mrs. Eija Lumme
Ministry of the Environment
International Affairs Unit
P.O.Box 28
00023
Valtioneuvosto
Tel:+ 358 9 160 39479
Fax:+ 358 9 160 39387
E-mail:
Mr. Tuomas Kuokkanen
Ministry of the Environment
Environmental Protection Department
P.O. Box 35
FIN 00023
Government
Tel:+ 358 9 160 39720
Fax:+ 358 9 160 39630
E-mail:
FRANCE / Mr. Thierry Pontille
20 Avenue de Segur
75007
Paris
Tel:+ 33 1 42 19 18 29
Fax:+ 33 1 42 29 17 72
E-mail:
Mr. Eric Schoonejans
Ministere de l’ecologie et du developpement durable
DPPR/ Service de l’Environment Industriel/Biotechnologies
20 Avenue de Segur
75302
Paris
Cedex 07
Tel:+33 1 42 19 14 17
Fax:+33 1 42 19 14 67
E-mail:
GEORGIA / Ms. Maia Kapanadze
Head of the Public Relations
Ministry of Environment
68a Kostova Street
0171
Tbilisi
Tel:+995 32 333 952
Fax:+995 32 333 952
E-mail:/
GERMANY / Mr. Thomas Rolf
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Alexanderplatz 6
10178
Berlin
Tel:+491 888 305 2361
Fax:+491 888 305 3331
E-mail:
Ms. Anne Charlotte Becker
Humboldt Universitat Berlin
Juristische Fakultat
LS Pernice
Unter den Linden 9
10099
Berlin
Tel:+493 0 209 33 367
Fax:+493 0 209 33 440
E-mail:
GREECE / Mr. Andreas Cambitsis
Minister-Counselor
Permanent Mission of Greece to the UN
Tel:+41 22 909 8948
E-mail:
HUNGARY / Mrs. Judit Bakonyine Moser
Ministry of Environment and Water
Fo u. 44-50
Budapest
1011
Tel:+36 1 457 3556
Fax:+36 1 201 3937
E-mail:
IRELAND / Mr. Maurice Coughlan
Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government
Custom House
Dublin I
Tel:+353 1 888 27 79
Fax:+353 1 888 26 91
E-mail:
Mrs. Eugenie Carter
Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government
Custom House
Dublin I
Tel:+353 1 888 27 05
Fax:+353 1 888 26 91
E-mail:
Mr. Ronnie Devlin
Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government
Custom House
Dublin I
Tel:+353 1 888 20 86
Fax:+353 1 888 26 91
E-mail:
Ms. Petra Woods
Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government
Custom House
Dublin I
Tel:+353 1 888 26 07
Fax:+353 1 888 26 91
E-mail:
ITALY / Ms. Loredana Dallora
Via Cristoforo Colombo 44
00142 Rome
Tel:+390 657 228 107
Fax:+390 657 228 177
E-mail:
Ms. Federica Rolle
Via Cristoforo Colombo 44
000147 Rome
Tel:+390 657 228 129
Fax:+390 657 228 177
E-mail:
Prof. Attila Tanzi
Law Faculty
Verona University
Via Montanani
(VR)
E-mail:
Ms. Francesca De Crescenzo
Permanent Mission of Italy in Geneva
KAZAKHSTAN / Mrs. Violetta Jalilova
Ministry of Environmental Protection
31 Pobeda Street
Astana
473000
Tel:+73172 591 696
Fax:+73172 591 696
E-mail: ,
LATVIA / Ms. Zaneta Matijesku
Parliamentary Secretary
Ministry of Environment
25 Peldu Street
Riga
LV-1494
Tel:+371 702 6436
Fax:+371 782 0442
E-mail:
LUXEMBOURG / Mrs. Esther Bollendorf
94 rue de l’Alzette
L-4010
Esch/ Alzette
Phone:+352 478 65 88
Fax:+352 400 410
E-mail:
NETHERLANDS / Ms. Frederique van Zomeren
Senior Legal Policy Advisor
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
European Environmental Policy Division
Rijnstraat 8
2500 GX
The Hague
Tel: + 31 70 339 4568
Fax: + 31 70 339 1306
Email:
Mr. Willem Jan Mesters
Ministry of Environment
Rijnstraat 8
P.O. Box 30945
The Hague
Tel: + 31 70 339 4047
Fax: + 31 70 339 1302
Email:
Mr. Philip Drost
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
P.O. Box 20951
2500 EZ
The Hague
Tel: + 31 70 339 2381
Fax: + 31 70 339 1592
Email:
NORWAY / Mrs. Hanne Inger Bjurstrom
Ministry of the Environment
PO Box 8013 DEP
0030 Oslo
Phone:+47 22 24 59 91
Fax:+47 22 24 95 63
E-mail:
Ms. Mona Aarhus
Ministry of the Environment
PO Box 8013 DEP
0030 Oslo
Phone:+47 22 24 58 35
Fax:+47 22 24 95 63
E-mail:
PORTUGAL / Mr. Rui Gonçalves
Instituto do Ambiente / Ministry for Urban Affairs, Spatial Planning and the Environment
Rua da Murgueira
9/9A, Zambujal
2611-865 Amadora
Tel:+ 351 214728253
Fax:+ 351 214719074
E-mail:
ROMANIA / Mrs. Lucia-Mihaela Ceuca
Director for Communications
CNCAN
Bd. Libertatii nr.12 – sect.5
Bucharest
Tel:+ 40 21 335 7107
Fax:+ 40 21 335 7107
E-mail:
SERBIA / Mr. Dragoljub Todic
Ministry for Science and Environment
Directorate for Environmental Protection
Nemanjina 22-24
Belgrade
Serbia
Tel:+ 381 11 361 6368 / 381 64 202 7028
Fax:+ 381 11 215 8793
E-mail:
SPAIN / Ms. Susana Drake
Ministerio de Medio Ambiente
Plaza San Juan de la Cruz s/n
28071
Madrid
Tel:+ 34 91 597 6997
Fax:+ 34 91 597 5981
E-mail:
Mr. Jose Miguel Pinon Gorrilmo
Plaza San Juan de la Cruz s/n
28071
Madrid
Tel:+ 34 91 597 6044
Fax:+ 34 91 597 6601
E-mail:
SWEDEN / Ms. Kristina Eriksson
Ministry of Environment
Tegelbacken 2
S-103 33
Stockholm
Tel: + 46 8 405 23 66
Fax: + 46 8 405 18 45
E-mail:
Mr. Martin Attorps
Ministry of Environment
Tegelbacken 2
S-103 33
Stockholm
Tel: + 46 8 405 21 17
Fax: + 46 8 405 18 45
E-mail:
TAJIKISTAN / Ms. Shakhlo Azizbekova
Head of Department of International Relations State Committee for Environmental Protection and Forestry
12 Bokhtar Street
Dushanbe
Tel: + 992 372 215571
Fax: + 992 372 211 839
E-mail: /
THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA / Mr. Valentin Plesca
Deputy Head of Environmental Strategies and General Policy Division
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources
9 Cosmonautlior Street
Chisinau 2005
Tel: +373 22 20 45 31
Fax: +373 22 20 45 33
Email: /
UNITED KINGDOM / Mr. David Steele
Environmental Democracy Branch
Europe Environment Division (EED)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
5/H13, Ashdown House
123 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6DE
Tel: + 44 207 082 8005
Fax: + 44 207 082 8559
Email:
Ms. Karen Morgan
Environmental Democracy Branch
Europe Environment Division (EED)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
5/H13, Ashdown House
123 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6DE
Tel: + 44 207 082 8004
Fax: + 44 207 082 8559
Email:
Mr. Jolyon Thomson
Room 144
Defra Legal Services
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
Tel: +44 20 7238 6245
Fax: +44 20 7238 3398
Email:
UZBEKISTAN / Mr. Timur Tillyaev
Head of Department on Ecological Law, State Committee for Nature Protection of the republic of Uzbekistan
99 Amir Timur Street
700084
Tashkent
Tel: + 99871 1394195
Fax: + 99871 1357864
Email:
EUROPEAN COMMISSION / Ms. Yolanda Villar Ruberte
DG Environment
Unit of Legal Governance
A.3 (BU5 6-129)
B-1049 Brussels
Tel: + 32 2 296 80 55
Fax: + 32 2 299 82 58
Email:

Compliance Committee

Participants

Mr. Veit Koester
Chairman
Ordrupvej
132 BCharlottentund
2920
Denmark
Tel/Fax:+45 47 74 58 56
Fax:+45 39 27 98 99 c/o Birgit Hoejbroe Andersen
(restricted use)
E-mail:

United Nations

Organisation

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Participants

UNEP / GRID Arendal

/ Nikolai Denisovcee
Caucasus-Central Asian coordinator
UNEP Regional Office for Europe,
15 Chemin des Anemones
CH 1219,
Geneva,
Switzerland
Tel: + 41 22 917 8281
Fax: + 41 22 797 34 20
E-mail:

UNEP / ROE

/ Mr. John Carstensen
Email:

UNITAR

/ Mr. Achim Halpaap
Principal Coordinator
Chemicals and Waste Management and Aarhus Convention and Environmental Democracy
Ms. Silvia Llosa
Fellow
Chemicals and Waste Management
Aarhus Convention and Environmental Democracy
Mr. Jorge Ocana
Fellow
Chemicals and Waste Management
Ms. Tatiana Terekhova
Fellow
Aarhus Convention and Environmental Democracy
International Environment House
Chemin des Anemones 11-13
Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: + 41 22 917 8470
Fax: + 41 22 917 8047
Email:

Non Governmental Organisations

GLOBE EUROPE / Mr. Ilya Trombitsky
c/o ECO-TIRAS (NGO)
6 Cosmonautilor Street
No. 403
Chisinau 2005
The Republic of Moldova
Tel: +373 22 550 953
Fax: +373 22 550 953
Email:
European ECO
Forum / Mr. John Hontelez (EEB Secretary-General)
European Environmental Bureau
Boulevard de Waterloo, 34
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Phone:+32 2 289 10 90
Fax:+32 2 289 10 99
E-mails: and
Ms. Mara Silina
European Environmental Bureau
Boulevard de Waterloo, 34
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Phone:+32 2 289 10 90
Fax:+32 2 289 10 99
E-mails: and
Ms. Lidiya Astanina
”Greenwoman” Public Association
’’Koktem-2”, dom 2, apt. 73
Almaty 480090
Kazakhstan
Phone:+7 3272 754 996
Fax:+7 3272 754 996
E-mails:
Mr. Igor Hadjamberdiev
Prof. Pedagogical University
Civil Society Association
PO 1451
Bishkek 720040
Kyrgyzstan
Phone:
Fax:+996 312 666 334
E-mails: or
Mr. Serhiy Vykhryst
Expert, Water Issue Group
ul. Mikhailivska, 22 Floor 1
Kyiv
01001
Ukraine
Tel: + 38 067 710 1197
Fax: + 38 044 229 5514
Email:
Ms. Alexandra Soldatenko
Volunteer
Greenwoman
Tel: +336 707 639 15
Fax: +7 3272 754 996
Email:

Regional Organisations

The Regional Environmental Centre – Central and Eastern Europe / Mrs. Magdolna Toth Nagy
Head of Program
Ady Endre ut 9-11
2000
Szentendre
Hungary
Tel:+36 26 504 000
Fax: + 36 26 311 294
E-mail:

Observer Organisations

University of Innsbruck /
Ms. Nicole Bjerler
Research Assistant
University of Innsbruck
Department of Public International Law, European Law and International Relations
Innrain 52
A-6020
Innsbruck
Austria
Tel: +43 512 507 8304
Fax: +43 512 507 2824
Email:

Secretariat

UNECE/ENHS
Palais des Nations
1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland /
Mr. Jeremy Wates
Secretary to the Aarhus Convention (Office 332)
Environment and Human Settlements Division
Phone:+41 22 917 23 84
Fax:+41 22 917 01 07
E-mail:
Ms. Marianna Bolshakova
Aarhus Convention (Office 321)
Environment and Human Settlements Division
Phone:+41 22 917 26 50
Fax:+41 22 917 01 07
E-mail:
Ms. Ella Behlyarova
Aarhus Convention (Office 409)
Environment and Human Settlements Division
Phone:+41 22 917 23 76
Fax:+41 22 917 01 07
E-mail:
Ms. Ljiljana Stancic
Aarhus Convention (Office 321)
Environment and Human Settlements Division
Phone:+41 22 917 18 79
Fax:+41 22 917 01 07
E-mail:
Mr. Michael Stanley-Jones
Aarhus Convention (Office 411)
Environment and Human Settlements Division
Phone:+41 22 917 24 42
Fax:+41 22 917 01 07
E-mail:
Ms. Serena Chaudhuri
Aarhus Convention (Office 411)
Environment and Human Settlements Division
Phone:+41 22 917 51 02
Fax:+41 22 917 01 07
E-mail:

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