One of the main activities of the European ECO Forum is to organise trainings for environmental NGOs on the Aarhus Convention's Compliance mechanism. The aim of these trainings is to familiarize participants with the compliance mechanism under the Aarhus Convention and to show how to prepare a communication to the Compliance Commitee. In order to be able to successfully carry out such trainings various documents and presentations have to be prepared in advance. Trainings are conducted by the expert team of the European ECO Forum (Thomas Alge, Andriy Andrusevich and Yves Lador). These trainings are taking place in Geneva back to back to the meetings of the Compliance Committee thus giving training participants to observe the work of the Committee and follow different parts of their deliberations.

Three training were organised, in 2007, 2008 and 2010.

Further you will find a full set of documents prepared for and used at the European ECO Forum trainings. Apart from documents prepared by the European ECO Forum legal team also official documents are distributed and used at the training.

European ECO Forum training on use of the Aarhus Convention Compliance mechanism
March 16 - 19, 2010, Geneva/Switzerland

Presentations from the training:

1. Session 1 - Compliance Mechanism un the Aarhus Convention: Introduction - Andriy Andrusevych
2. Session 1 - What is the Compliance Mechanism of the Aarhus Convention - Thomas Alge
3. Session 1 - Statistics and procedural steps with regard to the the Compliance Mechanism - Thomas Alge
4. Session 2 - Approaching the Compliance Committee - Thomas Alge
5. Session 2 - Procedural steps in the compliance procedure - Andriy Andrusevych
6. Session 2 - Remedies: What can you ask for? - Andriy Andrusevych
7. Session 3 - Developing your communication - Thomas Alge
8. Session 5 - Consideration by MOP and Follow-up - Andriy Andrusevych
9. Session 5 - Follow-up on Ukrainian case - Elyzaveta Alekseyeva/EPL-Ukraine

Materials for participants prepared for the training