EAP Task Force

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Name of Organization	Environmental Action Programme (EAP) Task Force
Part of / Sub-organizations
Focus Areas
Geographic Scope	EECCA countries, including: ...
Contacts	EAP TF Secretariat c/o OECD Environment Directorate, 2, rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16 / France Telephone + 33 1 45 24 13 85 (Peter Borkey)
Organization Websites	http://www.oecd.org/document/2/0,2340,en_2649_201185_1875778_1_1_1_1,00.html Working Meetings: 2005: [ ] (Chisinau ..) Third Joint Annual Meeting of the EAP Task Force and the Project Preparation Committee (Yerevan (Armenia) on 16-17 November 2005) Financing water supply and sanitation in EECCA (EECCA & OECD Ministers of Economy/Finance, Environment and Water, 17-18th of November 2005, Yerevan, Armenia

1 Mission/Mandate
2 Key Resources
3 Work on the Ground
4 E-mail / Contact
5 References
6 See also
7 External Resources
8 Attachments

Mission/Mandate

In 1993, at the "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference in Lucerne Environment Ministers adopted the Environmental Action Programme for Central and Eastern Europe as a broad strategy to guide environmental reform in those countries. Ministers also established a Task Force to facilitate the implementation of Environmental Action Programme (EAP Task Force) and in particular to assist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) - and the countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan - to:

integrate environmental considerations into the processe of economic and political reform;
upgrade institutional and human capacities for environmental management;
broaden political support for environmental improvement, and
mobilise and make cost-effective use of financial resources.

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A Sister Organisation to the PPC.