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OSCE Centre helps local authorities deal with requests on environmental information in Kazakhstan
ALMATY 29 September 2004
ALMATY, 29 September 2004 - A new manual for local environmental authorities, which will help in developing better public access to ecological information, was presented today by the OSCE Centre in Almaty.
It was presented at a meeting organized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
"This manual explains how to handle requests for environmental information in Kazakhstan and should be very useful not only to officials, but also to the public," said Ambassador Ivar Vikki, Head of the OSCE Centre in Almaty.
The publication has been developed within the framework of a project run by the OSCE Centre in Almaty on improving access to environmental information and is based on the principles of the Aarhus Convention, ratified by Kazakhstan in October 2000.
The manual is also based on the recommendations of a roundtable discussion on the draft law on ecological information among civil society organizations, conducted by the Centre in February 2004, as well as a follow-up workshop devoted to the mechanisms for implementing the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan held in June 2004.
Local environmental law experts co-operated closely with the Ministry and other related state bodies to produce the manual. It has been issued in Kazakh, Russian and English.
It was presented at a meeting organized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
"This manual explains how to handle requests for environmental information in Kazakhstan and should be very useful not only to officials, but also to the public," said Ambassador Ivar Vikki, Head of the OSCE Centre in Almaty.
The publication has been developed within the framework of a project run by the OSCE Centre in Almaty on improving access to environmental information and is based on the principles of the Aarhus Convention, ratified by Kazakhstan in October 2000.
The manual is also based on the recommendations of a roundtable discussion on the draft law on ecological information among civil society organizations, conducted by the Centre in February 2004, as well as a follow-up workshop devoted to the mechanisms for implementing the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan held in June 2004.
Local environmental law experts co-operated closely with the Ministry and other related state bodies to produce the manual. It has been issued in Kazakh, Russian and English.