Updates on the European Investment Bank

Briefing paper and report from the fact-finding mission to the Belgrade Bypass and Gazela Bridge projects

Letter to the EIB regarding resettlement aspects of the Gazela Bridge and Belgrade Bypass projects in Serbia

On August 30, 2007 EIB responded to this letter. Download the response as pdf here.

The Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation on Request for Inspection of the Alabania Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project

Key concerns regarding the disclosure of project documentation and potential impacts of the Western High Speed Diameter road construction project

As presented to the EBRD by the Assessment Centre ECOM – St Petersburg Society of Naturalists (ECOM)

IFI Transparency and the Aarhus Convention

Members of the Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) prepared this paper to examine implementation of the Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions from the perspective of the Aarhus Convention.

Western high speed diameter non-technical project summary

EIBs transparency performance: rules and day-to-day practice in access to information

This report analyses the EIB’s transparency performance in the policy making process and the implementaion of rules on access to information. While revealing that the EIB is able to deliver a participatory process in the formulation of the Public Disclosure Policy (PDP), at the same time the report sheds new light on the EIB’s incompliance with European Community rules on access to information as well as missing obligations towards the Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters.

Bankwatch Mail 33

In this issue: Too much carbon in EU funding – Commission rubber stamps 30 percent rise in Polish GHGs * EIB approves Bujagali Dam in Uganda despite major flaws * Environmental and social safeguards – time to get serious at the EIB * Poland facing trial in European Court of Justice over Via Baltica * Dos and donts – how the EIB can avoid development pitfalls * When is corruption not corruption? Ask the EIB * The memory hole

Updated: concerns regarding the project content of the proposed waste-to-energy incinerator in Zagreb, Croatia

The Belgrade bypass and Gazela bridge projects