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EPIGOV
Conference 1, Brussels
Thursday, 15 February 2007
Better
Integration: Mainstreaming Environmental Concerns in
European Governance
On 15 February
2007, the Institute
for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), in co-operation
with the Institute
for European Studies (IES) of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB), will be organising the
first EPIGOV conference in Brussels to review progress
made in the integration of environmental concerns into
other areas of EU policy and discuss the governance
challenges involved in implementing the principle of
environmental policy integration (EPI). This principle
was first introduced in the EC Treaty by the Single
European Act twenty years ago. In 1997, the Treaty of
Amsterdam strengthened its formulation and gave it a
more prominent place in the Treaty. As Article 6 of
the Treaty puts it: “Environmental protection
requirements must be integrated into the definition
and implementation of [all] Community policies and activities
… in particular with a view to promoting sustainable
development.”
How are EU
institutions succeeding in fulfilling this mandate?
To what extent has the pursuit of environmental protection
objectives become institutionalised in all EU policies
and activities? What difficulties are institutions encountering
in mainstreaming environmental concerns? Does EPI pose
particular challenges in terms of policy coherence and
co-ordination? These are some of the main questions
that will be addressed by the conference.
The morning
session will be devoted to a review of the situation
with respect to EPI in a number of important sectors
of EU policy. Expert speakers will address the experience
in energy, transport and development co-operation policy,
to identify the key challenges and provide the background
for a more general debate of the issues arising in efforts
to mainstream environmental concerns in EU governance.
During the afternoon, speakers will further consider
some of these general issues. Are impact assessment
and the wider use of market-based instruments, such
as emissions trading, conducive to EPI? How does EPI
relate to strategic processes such as the Lisbon agenda
and the EU Sustainable Development Strategy?
This conference
is the first of a series of events within the framework
of EPIGOV, with the financial support of the European
Union’s 6th Research Framework Programme. It is
open not only to researchers, but to all interested
participants from EU institutions, national and regional
administrations, media, business, NGOs and other stakeholders.
 Conference Summary [pdf, 54 KB, English]
Programme
EPIGOV Conference 1, part I [pdf, 80 KB, English]
Further practical
information as well as the conference papers will be
uploaded on this website as soon as they become available.
For
further information and registration, please contact:
Institute
for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
Kristof Geeraerts
Avenue des Gaulois 18
1040 Brussels
KGeeraerts@ieep.eu
Tel. +32-2-738.74.73
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EPIGOV
Conference 1, Brussels
Friday, 16 February 2007
Environmental
Policy Integration and Modes of Governance
The conference
will be followed on Friday, 16 February by a second
part on "Environmental Policy Integration and Modes
of Governance". Participation in this workshop
is restricted to EPIGOV partners and invited guests.
Programme
EPIGOV Conference 1, part II [pdf, 80 KB, English]
For further
information contact Marc Pallemaerts, IEEP (MPallemaerts@ieep.eu).
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Hotels
We kindly
ask you to organise your own travel and hotel arrangements.
As there are no hotels in the immediate vicinity of
the VUB Campus, we recommend you stay in the centre
of Brussels. The campus is easily accessible by public
transport.
We have arranged
a group reservation for the nights of 14 and 15 February
at a special rate of €102.00/night including breakfast
at Citadines Brussels Toison d'Or.
Citadines
Brussels Toison d'Or
61-63, avenue de la Toison d'Or
1060 Brussels
Tel +32 2 543 5462
Fax +32 2 543 53 00
Email: edavid@citadines.com
(Mr Etienne David)
Reservation form
[doc, 30 KB, English]
Participants
wishing to take advantage of this reservation should
fill out this reservation form and return it to the
hotel attn Mr Etienne David with their credit card number.
Some pre-reserved rooms are still available until 19
January. After that date, the same rate will continue
to apply for conference participants using the form,
subject to availability of rooms. Any enquiries should
be addressed directly to the hotel.
Other hotels can be reserved through the Brussels
Tourist Bureau online reservation service.
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Presentations
Ingmar von Homeyer: Introduction to the EPIGOV Project [pdf, 474 KB, English]
Nele Dhondt: The State of EPI in the EC Energy Policy [pdf, 56 KB, English]
Jos Dings: Integration of Environment in transport policy at EU level [pdf, 516 KB, English]
Rhiannon Williams: Environmental Policy Integration in Development Co-operation [pdf, 96 KB, English]
Michela Catenacci: Governance and Environmental Policy Integration in Europe: What Can We Learn From the EU Emissions Trading Scheme? [pdf, 246 KB, English]
Klaus Jacob: Evaluating Integrated Impact Assessment: a Conceptual Framework [pdf, 817 KB, English]
Ingmar von Homeyer: The Thematic Strategies: Governance for Environmental Policy Integration? [pdf, 823 KB, English]
Marc Pallemaerts: Does the EU Sustainable Development Strategy Contribute To Environmental Policy Integration? [pdf, 325 KB, English]
Holger Bähr: Modes of Governance: An Introduction to the Concepts [pdf, 154 KB, English]
Andrea Lenschow: Interpretations of EPI in Theory and Practice [pdf, 102 KB, English]
William Lafferty: The Issue of 'Balance' and Trade-offs in Environmental Policy Integration: How Will We Know Environmental Policy Integration When We See It? [pdf, 86 KB, English]
Måns Nilsson: Social learning for Environmental Policy Integration: the Swedish Government Commission on Measures Against Climate Change [pdf, 101 KB, English]
Adriaan Schout: Co-ordinating European Affairs: How Do Different Actors Manage Multi-level Complexity [pdf, 524 KB, English]
Irmgard Schultz: Gender Mainstreaming: Are there Lessons to be learnt for EPI? Revised Version. [pdf, 244 KB, English]
Louise van Schaik: Policy Coherence for Development in the EU Council: Strategies for the way forward [pdf, 710 KB, English]
Ingmar von Homeyer: EPIGOV Reporting [pdf, 114 KB, English]
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Note: this information will be updated
regularly in the course of the project.
Last update: 08 May
2007
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