BRIJUNI, Nov 27 (Hina) - Croatian Environmental Protection and Zoning Minister Bozo Kovacevic opened the first international meeting of environmental protection inspectors, within the BERCEN programme - the Balkan Environmental
Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement Network - on the northern Adriatic archipelago of Brijuni on Wednesday.
BRIJUNI, Nov 27 (Hina) - Croatian Environmental Protection and
Zoning Minister Bozo Kovacevic opened the first international
meeting of environmental protection inspectors, within the BERCEN
programme - the Balkan Environmental Regulatory Compliance and
Enforcement Network - on the northern Adriatic archipelago of
Brijuni on Wednesday. #L#
BERCEN was established by high-level officials from the
environmental ministries of Southeast Europe in Tirana in December
2001. It operates under the framework of the stabilisation and
association process, the European Union's strategy for creating
the conditions needed to integrate the countries of the region into
European structures.
Today's meeting is attended by representatives of Albania, Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech
Republic, the Netherlands, Sweden and Croatia.
Minister Kovacevic said the Croatian government and his ministry
attempted to strengthen regional cooperation through exchanging
experience in the environmental protection "primarily because of
Croatia's ambition" to join the European Union.
The three-day meeting was organised by the Environmental
Protection Ministry and the Regional Environmental Centre for
Central and Southeast Europe.
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