Carpathian Convention WG on Sustainable Transport and Infrastructure Meeting
26 - 27 February 2013, Vienna, Austria
The meeting was organized by the Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention (supported by UNEP Vienna) in strong collaboration with the European Academy Bolzano (EURAC) and its Vienna Office. The concrete objective of this meeting was to follow-up on the last meeting of the WG and discussions held in Kosice (18 to 19 October 2012) and foster the further development of the draft text Protocol on Sustainable Transport and Infrastructure to the Carpathian Convention. The WG made good progress in further negotiating on the draft text of the Protocol.
The meeting of this WG benefited from various available results, e.g. past and ongoing experiences and results throughout implemented projects such as “Access2Mountain” (funded under SEE Programme). This event enjoyed again the technical and financial support of the European Transnational Cooperation South East Europe Programme project “Access2Mountain”.
The next meeting of the WG is scheduled for tent. June 2013 with the view of further elaborating the draft text of the Protocol. It is envisaged to have the final draft text of the Protocol by the end of 2013 with the view of presenting it to COP4 of the Carpathian Convention (to be hosted 24 to 26 September 2014 in Czech Republic).
MEETING DOCUMENTS
