The Technical Secretariat of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development from the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Ministry of the Environment of Chile in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the United States Environment Protection Agency, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and with the financial support of the French Regional Cooperation for South America and the United Nations Development Account are organizing the Regional workshop on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to be held on 9 October 2014 at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago de Chile. 

 

9:00 am - 9:30 am Registration of participants

9:30 am - 10.00 am Welcoming remarks

10:00 am - 11:30 am PRTR: What, how and why?

• Takahiro Hasegawa, Administrator, OECD
• Kristof Douçot, Environmental Affairs Officer, Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR Protocol) to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention)
• Stephen DeVito, PRTR Expert, US EPA (Presentation 1 and presentation 2)

11:30 am - 11:45 am Coffee break

11:45 am - 1:30 pm PRTR in practice: good practices and lessons learned in Spain

• Sr. Iñigo de Vicente-Mingarro, PRTR expert, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Spain

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Lunch

3:00 pm – 4.30 pm Latin America and the Caribbean: the experience of Chile

• Marcos Serrano, PRTR expert, Ministry of Environment of Chile

4:30 pm – 4.45 pm Coffee break

4:45 pm - 6:00 pm The future of PRTR in LAC: what data do we have and what are we missing

Conversatorio:

Round-table discussion:

• Sonia Gonzáles, Ministry of Environment of Peru
• Mauro Salgado, National Council for Sustainable Development of Honduras
• ECLAC

Open discussion

6:00 pm – 6:15 pm Conclusions