Report of Working group 3: Environment, Climate Change & Energy Security, 4-5 October 2013

The first constituent meetings of all the thematic platforms, during which basic principles and procedures of their activities were agreed upon, were held in 2009. Besides, an intergovernmental Panel on Environment and Climate Change was established and started working. The EaP initiative pays special attention to mandatory involvement of civil society (CS) in the ENP implementation. That was the reason for establishing the Civil Society Forum (SCF), which has been existing for three years already, the same as the Working Group 3 (WG3) “Environment, climate change and energy security”. It was created at the 1st CSF in 2009 in Brussels and is coordinated by two elected coordinators — one from an EU country and another from a partner country. WG3 comes out for the best possible implementation of horizontal environmental legislation to ensure environmental policy integration (EPI) as the foundation for the European environmental policy reform and transition to green economy in the EaP partner countries.

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