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German and local experts evaluated the results of the training seminar during a meeting of the project steering group taking place afterwards. Representatives of environmental ministries and experts from South Caucasian authorities stressed the importance of arranging such a training seminar in terms of their practical work and acknowledged the comprehensiveness and utility of the information that was provided.
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Considering the present conditions as well as the willingness on both sides to transfer European know how on a national scale and taking into account the demands to increase the level of disposition, representatives of South Caucasian states approached the German authorities, in
particular the German Federal Environmental Agency and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Projection and Nuclear Safety, asking for support at providing information sessions and consulting service in collaboration with European experts. This aims at improving |
the quality of practical implementation in such a way as to ensure to meet the international requirements on hazard prevention in the South Caucasian region.
October 2004
International Workshops
in Armenia , Georgia and Azerbaijan in October 2004
According to project schedule the planned workshops for the review of the 2004 project results were held in each of the destinated countries in October 2004. The first meeting took place in Erevan , Armenia , from 11 to 13 October 2004, followed by meetings in Baku and Tbilisi .
The participants involved in the project talked about the achieved results and agreed upon distribution of information about existing centres and systems for the execution of warning and alarm notifications on a national level as basis for the common development of an international warning and alarm plan for Kura River Basin .
In addition the information about possible existing branch- or regional information systems or missing systems of this kind at national level should be prepared and transferred.
In doing so the capacity of information about responsibility and expertise of all individuals engaged in factories and regions and the data concerning responsibilities at national level have to be observed.
The project management played tribute to local experts of the destinated countries for having conducted exemplary investigations of selected industrial plants and thanked them for the submittal and discussion of the examination reports.
The project experts talked about the high importance of experience gained at the factory investigations conducted according to (German) FEA (UBA)-checklist method. They showed interest in the practical application of this method by their own environmental agencies after appropriate modifications.
March 2005
International working meeting of transboundary river basin
Subject of the meeting in Tbilisi from 30.-31.03.2005 was the discussion of the preparation and organisation of the tasks for 2005-2006.
Details, needed data and tasks for the work out of the international warn and alert plans Kura were discussed and agreed by local experts.
The enlisted persons of the project interchanged information about the warn and alert plans of european transboundary river basin, about the UNECE notification system and about the existing government- notification systems in their countries.
Southern caucasian experts presented an actual situation of the existing national notification systems and gave relevant information.
It has been temporarily agreed, in which state structures the international main centres of notification can be organized.
July 2005
German EPA conducted International Workshop in Southern Caucasus
From 18.-20. July 2005 a information and training seminar, organized by the German Environmental Protection Agency, with the subject “Warn and Alert Plans in transboundary river basins”, as part of the German Ministry for Environment project “Development of international cooperation for the prevention of possible hazard incidents in the river basin of the Kura river, took place in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Participated speakers from the German environmental authorities, which also represented the Commission for the Protection of the Rhine. Also took part members of the Environmental ministries and state departments for technical monitoring of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus.
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The seminar was focused on the experiences of possible hazard incidents and Warn and Alert Plans, monitoring of the water quality, formation of the control and safety of installations in European countries and organisation of the work of the International commission for protection of European river basin. A refinery in Baku was visited.
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