The Future of the EAP Task Force

EAP Task Force (1998): The Future of the EAP Task Force. Paper produced for Environment for Europe, Aarhus, 23-25 June 1998. OECD, Paris.

This paper was prepared to support a discussion on the future of the EAP Task Force. After the introduction there are five further sections. Section II reviews the Task Force’s mandate and the evolution of its work programme. Section III presents Task Force meeting decisions; in particular the consensus that the Task Force should continue after the Aarhus conference, but that its work be differentiated into two programmes – one for the NIS and one for CEECs. Section IV suggests that the two parallel programmes should be elaborated under the three themes which have guided work since Sofia. Section V proposes ways in which the structure of the Task Force might be adapted, including the new role which the REC would play. Section VI examines the resource implications of post-Aarhus activities.