Reform in CEE-Countries with Regard to European Enlargement

Session 1 EC Environmemtal Law and its Enforcement.- Instruments of European law and questions concerning their implementation at national level as exemplified by water law, immission control law and waste law.- Poland as an example for the harmonization of European law - the environmental and planning law requirements for the licensing of intensive animal farms.- The harmonization of Polish environmental protection law with European Union law.- The organizational and legal instruments available for harmonizing Polish environmental law with EC environmental law.- The EU Rural Development Programme and the accession process.- Public access to information on the environment and environmental law implementation - the new legislation in practice.- Development of ecological farming in Poland, other trends in food production and their prospects within the EU market.- Organizational and legal instruments available to public authorities for the protection of the environment.- Session 2 Experiences in Institution Building and Future Requirements for Reporting and Evaluation.- Transborder regions and administrative boundaries: institution building on the basis of common environmental values and its role in the enlargement of the EU.- The adoption of the acquis communautaire in environmental legislation in the accession countries - examples under German co-ordination.- Twinning as an instrument for implementing the principles of ecological planning in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.- Twinning - a challenge for both candidate countries and Member States.- Bulgaria's accession to the European Union.- Development of environmental education in Brandenburg - an assessment of financial support programmes and structures.- Landscape planning in Eastern Europe -an established instrument for nature protection in Germany and its potential as a model for regulating nature protection and landscape conservation in Central and Eastern Europe.