The REC officially kicked off a new project, "Support Establishment and Advancement of Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) in Western Balkan Countries and in Moldova", on March 1, 2015. The project will be implemented for two years with financial support from the German Federal Agency for Environment within the Advisory Assistance Programme (AAP) for Environmental Protection in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety.
The project will focus its main activities on four parties to the UNECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR Protocol): Albania, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Moldova, with activities assisting these countries in fulfilling their obligations by putting operational PRTRs in place and improving the efficiency of already functioning PRTRs.
In the other three countries in South-Eastern Europe (SEE): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Kosovo*, stakeholder discussions will be held to give impetus to the PRTR development process, to discuss and evaluate the current situation, and to develop proposals for the next steps.
A regional experience-sharing workshop will be organised in the project's second year to support all project partners in exchanging information, sharing knowledge with each other and EU countries, and learning from best practices.
Project activities will be implemented in line with the PRTR Protocol and the EU's E-PRTR system, and also in close cooperation with national PRTR focal points, respective ministries and agencies of the project countries, as well as with the PRTR Protocol and Aarhus Convention bodies and Secretariat. Synergies will be developed with other ongoing PRTR projects and former REC PRTR project results.
More information about the project can be found here.
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
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