- Harmonisation / approximation of EU environmental legislation and policy;
- Preparatory work for accession negotiations;
- Analysis of national legislation (gap analysis, Tables of Concordance, Implementation Questionnaires etc);
- Drafting environmental legislation;
- Assessing administrative and legal capacity;
- Legislation compliance schedules and harmonisation strategies;
- Developing sector and directive-specific implementation plans;
- Regulatory impact assessments;
- Public and stakeholder consultations and training.
EU environmental law
Environmental law sectors (Chapter 27)
- Horizontal (EIA, SEA, environmental liability, access to environmental information, public access to justice);
- Water management;
- Waste management;
- Air quality;
- Industrial pollution control (IPPC / IED, PRTR, combustion plants, Seveso etc);
- Noise;
- Nature protection;
- Chemicals management.
International environmental law
- Analysis of national legislation with regard to international best practices;
- Implementation of international environmental safeguards;
- Implementation of international social and involuntary resettlement safeguards;
- Drafting environmental legislation;
- Assessing legal capacity;
- Institutional capacity assessment;
- Public and stakeholder consultations and training.
United Kingdom
- Monitoring UK compliance with key EU environmental directives;
- Brexit – advising on application of EU environmental law to the military in England in the light of the Brexit referendum, ongoing negotiations and UK parliamentary debates.
Specific country experience:
Albania
2008 – 2011
Azerbaijan
2002, 2010 – 2011
Bulgaria
2003 – 2005, 2007
Croatia
2006 – 2007
Cyprus (North)
2007, 2009, 2010 – 2012
Czech Republic
1998 – 1999, 2003 – 2005
Estonia
2003 – 2005
Hungary
2003 – 2005
Kosovo
2006
Lao PDR
2007 – 2009, 2011 – 2014
Latvia
2003 – 2005
Lithuania
2003 – 2004, 2005
North Macedonia
2005
Malta
2003 – 2005
Moldova
2000 – 2001
Poland
1998 – 1999, 2001, 2003 – 2005
Romania
2000, 2003 – 2005, 2007
Russia
2002 – 2003, 2004 – 2005
Serbia
2014, 2015 – 2016, 2017
Slovakia
2003 – 2005
Slovenia
2003 – 2005
Solomon Islands
2013, 2015 – 2016
Timor-Leste
2013 – 2014, 2018 – 2019
Turkey
2001 – 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2015 – 2017, 2017 – 2019
United Kingdom
1990 – to date
Uzbekistan
2015, 2018
Vanuatu
2014, 2016-2017
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