Newsletter

№9 2009

Content:

• TBT sphere in Ukraine after WTO accession and towards the FTA with the EU
• Comments to the Draft Conception on Protection of Rights of Consumers of Non-banking Financial Services in Ukraine
• Round Table “Power of Drug Policy or Drud Policy of Power!?”
• Round Table on “European Probation System. The Italian System of Alternatives to Imprisonment for Drug Dependent Offenders and for Juveniles”
• UEPLAC organised the second session of the workshop devoted to finalising the Ukraine’s Environmental Strategy up to 2020
• UEPLAC held the fifth Steering Committee meeting

№8 2008

Special Edition:
Management Information System on Legal Approximation:

Content:

• Mission and opportunities of the system
• General characterstic and access to the system
• Interface of information portal and its main functions
• MIS statistics
• Further work

№7 2008

Content:

• Mutual legal assistance on civil matters comparative analysis of the functioning of the Hague service convention in seven states party thereto: the designation of arrangements for the central and other authorities
• Real estate taxation in France
• Mis Development
• Higher energy efficiency in buildings - Ukraine’s answer to growing scarcity of energy resources
• UEPLAC round table on Road Haulage: stakeholders' comments and general policy issues in Ukraine
• Membership in the Civil Society Expert Council under the Ukrainian Part of the EU-Ukraine Cooperation Committee

№6 2008

Content:

• Progress in regultory impact assessment in the context of legal approximation
• UEPLAC’s low voltage equipment study (executive summary)
• Stakeholders’ comments about the LVD RIA study and market surveillance reform.
• Methodological specificity of RIA in the context of legal approximation in Ukraine
• Joint methodological seminar for line ministries

№5 2008

Content:

• Benchmarks for further revisions of the antitrust legislation in Ukraine
• General overview of Environmental Tax Reform
• Selected comments on the draft concept on probation
• Training for the officials of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine
• UEPLAC provides legal support to Energy Security Strategy
• UEPLAC is launching test-version of the Management information System on Legal Approximattion

№4 2007

Content:

• Compatibility of the public procurement law of Ukraine with wto and best practices and the practical issues for its implementation
• Institutions and mechanisms governing the control of state aids at various stages of european integration
• Limited liability company - conceptual approach to legislative reform
• UEPLAC organised participationof the SDLA leadership in the training course on the principles, procedures and methods of regulatory impact analysis in Brugge
• New developments in the ukrainian legislation dealing with the insolvency matters
• The recent draft law on market surveillance
• UEPLAC organised participation of civil servants in eipa’s internal market seminar in Maastricht
• What reach means for EU and Ukraine
• Working Visit of the VRU Secretariat to the European Parliament
• Energy and environmental policy in Ukraine’s road Transport sector
• JSC law and corporate governance within the overall framework of company law in Ukraine
• Two regulatory impact assessment studies launched

№3 2007

Content:

• Management information systems for assisting the legal approximation process
• Making the draft law on Joint Stock Companies more workable for enterprises and better aligned to international benchmark and EU acquis
• Fundamental Rights in the EU: new-born European Agency.
• Round table on the Ukrainian prison health policy and harm reduction interventions and European best practices
• Working visit to GEPLAC
• Round table on reforming migration policy.
• UEPLAC holds round table on taxation reform in Ukraine
• Round table on environmental issues

№2 2007

Content:

• Co-operation for enhancing legal appoximation process
• Approximation component in the framework of a new agreement between the eu and ukraine
• Welcome to Europe Day!
• EU new energy initiatives – new policy goals and their practical implementation
• Round Table Fundamentals of the European Union Legal Order
• New EU energy package: consequences, challenges and opportunities for the Ukrainian economy
• Study tour and working visit of the delegation of the Verkhovna Rada to the European Parliament

№1 2006 / 2007

Content:

• Legal approximation is a process which goes beyond the mere legal drafting exercise
• Current assessment of the legal approximation process
• Challenges for legal approximation process in Ukraine
• Developments in the sphere of energy, environment, transport and telecommunication
• Launching Conference
• UEPLAC Steering Committee