The Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians (Carpathian Convention), signed in May 2003 in Kiev, entered into force on January 4, 2006. The REC has been actively involved in the process of developing this convention, which is a major tool for the protection and sustainable development of the Carpathian Mountains region.
 

Geographic scope

Carpathian countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine.

Donor

Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea

Implementing organisations

Regional Environmetal Center and EURAC

General Objectives

• to contribute to the sustainable development of the Carpathian Mountains region;
• to support the streamlining of efforts to implement the Carpathian Convention; and
• to facilitate implementation of the Convention at the local level, through increased awareness and ownership by the local authorities

Since 2004, the REC, in partnership with EURAC, has been implementing the first phase of a project aimed at supporting the implementation of the Carpathian Convention.

The project is designed in two different phases.

Contact Information

REC Environmental Law Programme
Tsvetelina Borissova Filipova
Project Manager
Ady Endre ut 9-11
2000 Szentendre
Hungary
Tel: (36-26) 504-094
Fax: (36-26) 311-294
Email: tborisova@rec.org

Contact information

Partners:

Italian Ministry of the Environment Land and Sea