23.02.2012 - 24.02.2012

Challenges in the field of environment and the way forward, parliamentary seminar, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The event, which opens regional parliamentary activities in 2012, is being co-organized by the European Parliament and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat. It will bring together officials and members of Western Balkan parliaments and European Parliament members.

The participants of the seminar will discuss EU environmental policy, as well as Western Balkans environmental trends and perspectives.

More specifically, the seminar will discuss the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and its environmental aspects, activities of the RCC Secretariat in aligning climate change and sustainable development objectives towards low-carbon economy, the current state of transposition and implementation of the EU environmental and climate acquis communautaire in the Western Balkans, the ways to raise public awareness on environmental issues, etc.