On September, 30th, Center for Envirоnmental Democracy – FLOROZON, Skopje, organized an event in Public Room.
Republic of North Macedonia, as a country with aspirations to become EU member, should achieve the European environmental standards, to harmonize the legislation with the European one, to implement the penalty provisions intended for the polluters, and to preventively act in light of environmental protection, are just part of the conclusions from the panel discussion "Becoming agents of change through environmental justice" within the project Equal access for effective justice.
Republic of North Macedonia, as a country with aspirations to become EU member, should achieve the European environmental standards, to harmonize the legislation with the European one, to implement the penalty provisions intended for the polluters, and to preventively act in light of environmental protection, are just part of the conclusions from the panel discussion "Becoming agents of change through environmental justice" within the project Equal access for effective justice.
The event’s speakers represent the key stakeholders in achievement of environmental justice: Natasha Gaber Damjanovska from the Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors, Ana Petrovska from the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Miroslav Bogdanovski from the Inspectorate of the City of Skopje, Darko Blinkov from the State Environmental Inspectorate and Nikola Prokopenko coming from the Ministry of justice and CSO representatives. An expert from EU was present at the discussion, coming from Hungary and working specifically on environmental justice – Csaba Kiss.
The discussion involved different topics among which most popular were the Aarhus Convention, the disposable legal mechanisms for achieving environmental justice, most prominent ecological challenges within the country and preventive action of the authorities.