Traduction de «Espoo Convention » (Anglais → Français) :

In order to coordinate and facilitate the assessment procedures for cross-border projects, and, in particular, to conduct consultations in accordance with the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context of 25 February 1991 (Espoo-Convention), the Member States concerned may set up, on the basis of equal representation, a joint body.

(23) The correct and coordinated implementation of Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment; of Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, where applicable, and of the Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters, signed in Aarhus on 25 June 1998 (‘the "Aarhus Convention"), and of the Espoo Convention on environmental im ...[+++]pact assessment in a transboundary context ( the "Espoo Convention") should ensure the harmonisation of the main principles for the assessment of environmental effects, including in a cross-border context.

– having regard to the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the 1991 UN/ECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context ("Espoo Convention"),

The 1991 UN/ECE Convention on transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (the Espoo Convention), building on existing EIA law, established procedures for consulting Parties likely to be affected by transboundary environmental impacts of proposed projects.

7. Takes note of the opposition expressed by certain Member States to the pipeline project planned for the Baltic Sea area, which is a common asset of the states bordering the Baltic Sea, not a matter of bilateral relations between states; considers, therefore, that the project should be realised in cooperation with each of the states around the Baltic Sea in accordance with the Espoo Convention, the Helsinki Convention and other pertinent legal instruments; stresses the importance of Russia completing its ratification of the Espoo Convention;

7. Takes note of the opposition expressed by certain Member States to the pipeline project planned for the Baltic Sea area, which is a common asset of the states bordering the Baltic Sea, not a matter of bilateral relations between states; considers, therefore, that the project should be realised in cooperation with each of the states around the Baltic Sea in accordance with the Espoo Convention, the Helsinki Convention and other pertinent legal instruments; stresses the importance of Russia completing its ratification of the Espoo Convention;