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Unlocking accountability: Complaint mechanisms at the international financial institutions

Leaflet | 15 April, 2014 | Download PDF

This leaflet provides guidance for people affected by the projects and programmes of international financial institutions. It explains in brief how the safeguard policies of the World Bank group, the EBRD and the EIB function and how to address the banks’ complaint mechanisms. The leaflet is also available in: Russian (pdf)

The EBRD’s newly proposed Environmental and Social Policy – from bad to worse

Briefing | 11 April, 2014 | Download PDF

Bankwatch Mail 58

Bankwatch Mail | 10 April, 2014 | Download PDF

Содержание Чьи интересы отстаивает Энергетическое сообщество? Договор нуждается в срочном улучшении Договор об Энергетическом сообществе, подписанный при поддержке ЕС в 2005 году и сторонами которого являются страны западной части Балканского полуостро

Recommendation from the European Investment Bank to the European Commission on the subject of a possible EURATOM loan for the Nuclear Safety Upgrade project in Ukraine (censored version)

Official document | 2 April, 2014 | Download PDF

Commissioned by the European Commission, the European Investment Bank assessed the feasibility of a Euratom loan to Ukraine’s state-nuclear energy operator Energoatom. This censored version of the document was made available on request.

The Energy Community’s decision to implement Chapter III of the EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive and its implications for new coal power plants in the Western Balkans, Moldova and Ukraine

Briefing | 2 April, 2014 | Download PDF

Due to the Energy Community Ministerial Council’s decision to apply the EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive, new combustion plants in the Energy Community countries have to be planned with the IED taken into consideration. Currently, there are a number of investments in new combustion plants in progress which would not comply with the new requirements if they are realised as planned. It follows, that these combustion plants would be in breach of the acquis on environment after 1 January 2018, in other words by the time they start operation.