November 25, 2003

09.00-12.00

Arrival and registration of session participants

12.00-12.40

Official opening of the session

Session chairman:

1. Alexandr Nikolayevich Apatskiy, deputy minister of natural resources and environmental protection of the Republic of Belarus, chairman of the Belarus UNDP-GEF Program Management Committee

Welcoming speeches:

1. Leontiy Ivanovich Khoruzhyk, minister of natural resources and environmental protection of the Republic of Belarus

2. Anatoliy Vladimirovich Gritsenko, deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Ecology and Natural resources of Ukraine, chairman of the Ukrainian UNDP-GEF Program Management Committee

3. Nikolay Nikolayevich Mikheyev, advisor to the minister of natural resources of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Russian UNDP-GEF Program Management Committee

4. Nikolay Mikhailovich Tarasov, first deputy of the minister of natural resources of the Russian Federation, head of the State Water Service of the Ministry of Natural resources of the Russian Federation

5. Representative of the UN Representative Office in the Republic of Belarus

12:40 – 12:45

Approval of the session agenda

12.45-13.00

Preliminary results of the UNDP-GEF Dnipro Basin Environmental Rehabilitation Program

1. Liubomir Markevich, manager of the UNDP-GEF Dnipro Basin Environmental Rehabilitation Program

13.00-14.30

Lunch

14.30-14-50

Development of the Strategic Action Program and National Action Plans for Environmental Rehabilitation of the Dnipro Basin

1. Vladimir Nikolayevich Bilokon, deputy manager of the UNDP-GEF Dnipro Basin Environmental Rehabilitation Program

14.50-15.10

UNIDO contribution to the UNDP-GEF Program and preparation for the donor conference

1. Andrey Andreyevich Galiapa, assistant to the regional coordinator of UNIDO projects

15.10-15.30

IDRC contribution to the UNDP-GEF Program and implementation of the IDRC-supported international technical assistance programs in the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation

1. Yelena Leonidovna Dronova, coordinator of projects administered by the IDRC representative office

15.30-15-50

Development of legislative documents governing international cooperation in the Dnipro Basin

1. Viktor Alexeyevich Melekhov, chief engineer of the Center of Russian register of Hydraulic Structures and State Water Cadaster of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, head of the Regional Thematic Center for Legislative, Regulatory and Economic Issues

15-50-16.20

Coffee break

16.20-16.40

Report on the State of the Dnipro Basin Environment

1. Alexandr Alexandrovich Mazurkevich, general director of the Ukrainian Land and Resources Management Center

16.40-17.00

Regional Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy

1. Mikhail Dmitriyevich Grodzinskiy, department head, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University

17.00-17.20

Dnipro Basin Transboundary Monitoring Program

1. Alexandr Georgiyevich Vasenko, deputy director of the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Environmental Problems, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, head of the Pollution Monitoring Regional Thematic Center

17.20-17.40

Dnipro Basin Environmental Database

1. Yuriy Bogdanovich Nabivanets, senior research worker of the Scientific Research Hydrometeorology Institute, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, technical coordinator of the Information Management Regional Thematic Center

17.40-18.00

As regards the participation of nongovernmental organizations in the UNDP-GEF Program and resolution Dnipro Basin environmental problems: results and prospects

1. Svetlana Leonidovna Pchelina, public relations coordinator, UNDP-GEF Program for Dnipro Basin Environmental rehabilitation

2. Representatives of the International Forum of NGOs Active in the Dnipro Basin

November, 2003

09.00-9.45

Ensuring sustainability of the SAP and NAPs development and implementation processes

Proposals of delegation heads – chairmen of the national UNDP-GEF Program management committees

1. Anatoliy Vladimirovich Gritsenko, deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Ecology and Natural resources of Ukraine, chairman of the Ukrainian UNDP-GEF Program Management Committee

2. Nikolay Nikolayevich Mikheyev, advisor to the minister of natural resources of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Russian UNDP-GEF Program Management Committee

3. Alexandr Nikolayevich Apatskiy, deputy minister of natural resources and environmental protection of the Republic of Belarus, chairman of the Belarus UNDP-GEF Program Management Committee

09.45–10.25

Ensuring sustainability of the SAP and NAPs development and implementation processes

Proposals of the heads of the regional thematic centers concerning RTCs prospects and cooperation within the framework of international expert working groups

1. Mikhail Yuriyevich Kalinin, director of the Central Scientific research Institute for the Integrated Use of Water Resources, head of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regional Thematic Center

2. Nikolay Nikolayevich Tsygankov, head of the Economics and Natural Resources Management Department, Ministry of Natural resources of the Republic of Belarus, head of the Clean Production Regional Thematic Center;

3. Vladimir Nikolayevich Kostiuchenkov, deputy chairman of the Smolensk Region Central Department for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, head of the Biodiversity Regional Thematic Center;

4. Viktor Alexeyevich Melekhov, chief engineer of the Center of Russian Register of Hydraulic Structures and State Water Cadaster of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, head of the Regional Thematic Center for Legislative, Regulatory and Economic Issues

5. Alexandr Georgiyevich Vasenko, deputy director of the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Environmental Problems, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, head of the Pollution Monitoring Regional Thematic Center

6. Yuriy Bogdanovich Nabivanets, senior research worker of the Scientific Research Hydrometeorology Institute, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, technical coordinator of the Information Management Regional Thematic Center

10.25-11.00

Discussion

11.00-11.30

Break

11.30-12.00

Organizational issues: consideration and approval of the Council Indicative Work Schedule for 2004.

1. Alexandr Georgiyevich Vasenko, chairman of the Council Organizing Committee, deputy director of the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Environmental Problems, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine

12.00-13.30

Approval of Recommendations and Resolution

Closing of the Session

13.00-14.30

Lunch