Updates on the European Investment Bank

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

Zagreb solid waste municipal incinerator: an unsuitable quick-fix for Zagreb’s waste problems

Open letter to donors contributing to the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility

Bankwatch Mail 32

In this issue: The need for diversification in the Russian economy: a role for the EBRD? * Sakhalin II problems persist despite ownership fight * EBRD tries to shrug off devastating Kashagan oilfield impacts * Aarhus Convention ignored by IFIs in Albania * Squeezing the poor: the EBRD’s role in privatisation in Montenegro * More EBRD money to fund more Mittal tragedy in Kazakhstan?