09:30 – 10:00 / REGISTRATION

10.00 – 10:10 / INTRODUCTION

Enforcing citizen’s rights and public participation in decision making on environmental issues – practical implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan 2014 - 2017

Martin Skalsky – the project coordinator – Arnika (Czech Republic)

10:10 – 10:30 / INTRODUCTORY SPEECHES

Traian Hristea – his Excellency, Head of European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan

Ladislav Steinhubel – deputy chief of mission, Embassy of the Czech Republic to Kazakhstan

Natalia Ivanovna Dauletyarova – deputy director of the Department of Environmental Monitoring and Information of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

10:30 – 14:00 / RESULTS OF NEW RESEARCH

Environmental hot spots in Mangystau Region and recommendations for their mitigation

Kirill Osin – Eco Mangystau (Aktau)

The effect of pollution of the environment on the food-chain: contamination of camel milk and chicken eggs

Jindrich Petrlik – Arnika – Toxics and Waste Programme (Czech Republic)

Human health and effects of the long-term exposure to the pollution

Naila Dyusembayeva – professor of Karaganda State Medical University, Department of Introduction to the Clinic (Karaganda)
 

Zulkia Igenovna Namazbaeva - professor of the National Centre of Occupational Health and Occupational Diseases (Karaganda)

Access to information, public participation in decision making and level of environmental justice – assessment of implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan

Svetlana Mogiluk – ECOM (Pavlodar)

Public Environmental Expertise: Promising, but dysfunctional tool

Anna Andreichuk – Ecomuseum (Karaganda)

Pollution Release and Transfer Register: Large potential, neglected implementation

Martin Skalsky – Arnika (Czech Republic)

 14:00 – 15:00 / LUNCH

 15:00 – 16:00 / LOCAL CIVIC INITIATIVES

Small Grants Programme: Solving local environmental issues by the power of local citizens

Kirill Osin – Eco Mangystau (Aktau) & Anna Andreichuk – Ecomuseum (Karaganda)

Public participation in protection of the environment

Irina Ignatovich – Ecomuseum (Karaganda)

 16:00 – 16:45 / DISCUSSION

 16:45 – 17:00 / FINAL WORD AND SUMMARY