UNEP guides coun­tries to stamp out lead in paint

Cen­tral and East­ern Euro­pean, Cen­tral Asian states to make fur­ther moves to end hid­den hazard

Chisinau, Moldova – 19 May 2016: Cen­tral and East­ern Euro­pean and Cen­tral Asian coun­tries are being offered expert tools and guid­ance from the United Nations Envi­ron­ment Pro­gramme (UNEP) to ensure that the use of lead in paint ends by 2020.

At the work­shop begin­ning today at the Radis­son Blu Leogrand Hotel in Chisinau, a reg­u­la­tory toolkit for estab­lish­ing lead paint laws will be pre­sented to 17 coun­tries and dis­cus­sions take place on strate­gies for leg­isla­tive action at national but also regional level.

Car­a­vana EEE-​urilor uzate în raionul Cahul

Cam­pa­nia a fost orga­ni­zata de către Min­is­terul Medi­u­lui prin inter­mediul Ofi­ci­u­lui Pre­venirea Poluării Medi­u­lui, în partene­r­iat cu Cen­trul CONTACT-​Cahul și un ONG care deține autor­iza­ție pen­tru colectarea aces­tei cat­e­gorii de deșeuri. Prin inter­mediul aces­tei acți­uni, Repub­lica Moldova sa ală­tu­rat iniția­tivei glob­ale a Con­venției de la Basel - Partene­r­iat­u­lui pen­tru Acţi­une privind Echipa­men­tul de Cal­cul (PACE), finanțat de Pro­gra­mul Naţi­u­nilor Unite pen­tru Mediu.

Work­shop for pre­sen­ta­tion of the results of the inven­tory of indus­trial stocks of expired chemicals/​chemical stor­age sites and sources of water pol­lu­tion

On 3^rd April, 2015, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­lu­tion Pre­ven­tion Office, within the Min­istry of Envi­ron­ment, pre­sented the results of the inven­tory of indus­trial stocks of expired chemicals/​chemical stor­age sites and sources of water pol­lu­tion in the frame of the project „Inven­tory, Assess­ment and Reme­di­a­tion of Anthro­pogenic Sources of Pol­lu­tion in the Lower Danube Region of Ukraine, Roma­nia and the Repub­lic of Moldova” (MIS ETC 995).

National Incep­tion Work­shop ”Devel­op­ment of Mina­mata Ini­tial Assess­ment in Moldova”

On the 19^th March, 2015, the National Incep­tion Work­shop GEF/​UNEP Enabling Activ­ity ”Devel­op­ment of Mina­mata Ini­tial Assess­ment in Moldova” was held. The main objec­tive of the work­shop was to launch a dia­logue between national author­i­ties regard­ing rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the Mina­mata Con­ven­tion on Mer­cury, for­mu­la­tion of rel­e­vant pol­icy doc­u­ments and open national con­sul­ta­tions with author­i­ties in the field.