1. TAI Europe TAI Europe partners and assessment status Networking events 2004-2006 Current scope of work Regional Report communication and outreach PP10 relevant activities Fundraising Achievements and obstacles TAI-Europe - Presentation TAI Global Meeting Bangkok, Thailand 25-27 April, 2006

2. TAI Europe partners TAI – Europe CountryTAI Partner BulgariaAccess to Information Programme (AIP) EstoniaStockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre (SEI-Tallinn) HungaryEnvironmental Management and Law Association (EMLA) IrelandThe Centre for Sustainability, IT Sligo LatviaREC Latvia (REC) LithuaniaEnvironmental Center for Administration and Technology (ECAT) PolandInstitute for Sustainable Development (ISD) PortugalIntercooperação e Desenvolvimento UkraineEcoPravo – Kiev Germany Kazakhstan UK

3. Assessment status  = 1st: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine  = 2nd: Hungary  = Ver2.0 in the water sector: Estonia, Ireland  = planning: Germany, Ireland, UK + Kazakhstan ) = transboundary case studies TAI – Europe             

4. Networking events 2004-2006 Regional Meeting of the TAI National Teams from Europe (2004, Budapest, Hungary)  European Strategy Second Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (2005, Almaty, Kazakhstan)  Party Implementation Reports TAI Europe and PP10 Regional Meeting (2005, Warsaw, Poland)  Advocacy and outreach strategies TAI – Europe

5. Regional Reportanalysis and synthesis of 9 national assessments and an international conference assessment methodologycommenting and forwarding comments testing the assessment methodology Ver2.0 case studies in the transboundary context (project level decision-making in transportation and water management, bilateral policy decision-making (agreements on transboundary EIA), regulatory decision-making in land use, access to monitoring information on air quality) TAI – Europe Scope of work

6. Regional Report (structure) main findings, conclusions and recommendations organized around: issue scores law and practice country comparisons analysis by issue analysis by country „Aarhus Tagging” TAI – Europe

7. Aarhus Tagging direct link to Aarhus Convention articles comparison with Party Implementation Reports Example: #Indicator TextText Version1.1 Aarhus Mapping 1 How clear and inclusive are constitutional guarantees to the right to a clean and/or safe environment? Capacity/Law 2 The right to a clean environment Preamble para 5,6,7; Art 1; Art 3/1 2 How clear and inclusive are constitutional guarantees to the right of access to information held at public bodies? Information/Law 1 - Right to access to public interest information Preamble para 8,9,11,17; Art 1; Art 3/1 TAI – Europe

8. Communication and outreach Products:  Brochure  Internet forum  Web development  Banner Outreach strategy:  media plan  toolkit for national teams  preparation of mailing lists  banner and consistent design  identification of contact persons in national media as well as in regional media  template for notifying the media  national success stories in implementing access rights TAI – Europe

9. PP10 relevant activities official endorsement by the minister of environment (Poland) use of assessment results in work planning by ministry of environment (Lithuania) ministry of environment participation in the assessment review panel (Estonia, Hungary, Poland) participation of ministry of environment officials at the draft assessment report presentation (Hungary, Poland) acceptance of recommendations of the assessment in ministry of environment work (Estonia, Lithuania) active work in the Aarhus Working Group of the ministry of environment (Hungary) TAI – Europe

10. Fundraising TAI – Europe ISD (Poland)DG JusticeRegional Report, assessment methodology, transboundary issues Success EMLA (Hungary)The Presidency FundEurope-Asia relationships and making change in the development policies of EU institutions towards Asia Failure EMLA (Hungary)EEA GrantsTAI European coordination 3rd national assessment Pending The Presidency FundEurope-Asia relationships and making change in the development policies of EU institutions towards Asia Future