Electronic Tools for the Aarhus Convention. Norway 8-9 March
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Published under: Stoltenberg's 1st Government
Publisher: Ministry of the Environment
News story | Date: 05/03/2001 | Last updated: 21/10/2006
Around 70 representatives from European governments and NGOs will meet in Arendal 8-9 March to learn about and discuss the use of Electronic Tools and the Aarhus Convention. The workshop is hosted by the Ministry of Environment. Program and Participants. (05.03.01)
Electronic Tools for the Aarhus Convention
Task Force Workshop. 8-9 March 2001 in Arendal, Norway
Hosted by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment and the Austrian Federal Environment Agency. Co-ordinated by UNEP/GRID-Arendal.
Contact:Karen Folgen, GRID-Arendal, phone: +47 370 35 710, fax: +47 370 35 050
Programme
Wednesday 7 March
19.00 Reception hosted by the Mayor of Arendal, Arendal Town Hall
Thursday 8 March
Scandic Hotel Conference Suite
Chair: Norway
09.00 Welcome to Arendal
Svein Tveitdal, Managing Director, GRID-Arendal
09.10 Opening Address
Jo Stein Moen, Political Advisor to the Norwegian Minister of Environment
09.30 Living information
Guest speaker: Marta Prerovska, Senior Advisor, Gazette Communications and Information
10.00 The Articles of the Aarhus Convention related to electronic information
Johannes Mayer, Austrian Federal Environment Agency
10.30Coffee break
11.00 The challenge of unlimited possibilities
Keynote speaker: Professor Jon Bing, Dr. juris, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, University of Oslo
11.45 Introduction to case studies and initial results from needs survey
Jerome Simpson, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Discussion
12.45Lunch
Working groups
14.15 First round of group discussions on major themes:
Access to and dissemination of information (Articles 4 and 5)
Public Participation in decisions, plans/programmes/policies and normative acts (Articles 6 to 8 of the Convention)
Suggested focus of the working groups:
1) Learning from success and failure stories
2) Analyse needs, problems and limitations
16.30Coffee break
Plenary session
Chair: Austria
17.00 Conclusions from working groups
20.00 Dinner
Friday 9 March
Scandic Hotel Conference Suite
Chair: Austria
8.30 Perspectives on Capacity Building:
European Information Society
Eastern Perspective
Working groups
9.15 Second round of group discussions on:
Capacity building for users and producers
10.30Coffee break
Plenary session
11.00 Conclusions from working groups
12.00 Wrap-up and next steps of Task Force work
12.45 Transport to Longum Park
13.00 Lunch at GRID-Arendal
14.00 (optional for participants) GRID-Arendal auditorium
Presentation of UNEP/GRID/Arendal
Activities and role within UNEP
Special session on a key environmental issue