Assistance in safety improvement of tailings management facilities (TMF) in Armenia and Georgia

Agenda Participants Presentations Contact

The purpose of the third meeting of the Advisory Board is to discuss current project activities, prepared documents on legislation and methodology, safety measures for tailings in the UNECE region and further steps on the project.

The Conference is organized by the Association Rural Development for Future Georgia (RDFG), with the support from Armenian NGO “Eco Peace” and Advisory Assistance Program for Environmental Protection in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Our organization, the Association Rural Development for Future Georgia (RDFG), participates in a transboundary project “Assistance in safety improvement of tailings management facilities (TMF) in Armenia and Georgia”. Project goal is to contribute to the improvement and strengthening of national capacities of authorized/component agencies and industrial enterprises in Armenia and Georgia, to improve the management of disasters caused by industrial accidents, including by those with transboundary impact, to increase the level of preparedness of industrial enterprises, selecting industrial storage basins (tailings) as target facilities.

Project is financed by the German Federal Environment Ministry’s Advisory Assistance Programme (AAP) for environmental protection in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and other countries neighbouring the European Union. It is supervised by the German Environment Agency (UBA) and is implemented by the Armenian non-governmental organization “Eco Peace” in partnership with the Association Rural Development for Future Georgia.

Georgian component of the project is implemented in close collaboration with the LEPL National Agency of Mines under the Ministry of Economic and Sustainable Development of Georgia, LEPL National Environmental Agency and Environmental Supervision Department under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia State Sub-Agency of Emergency Management Service, as well as private mining companies such as RMG Gold.

Date: April 24-25, 2019
Location: Hotel “Old Tbilisi”, Tbilisi, Georgia;

23.04.2019

• Arrival of Participants
• Hotel Check-In

 
24.04.2019

Project Advisory Board Third Meeting

To be held on 24-25 April, 2019

Venue: Hotel “Old Tbilisi”, Tbilisi, Georgia (Address: K.Tsamebuli Ave. 27, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Working languages: English, with simultaneous translation into Russian

25.04.2019

• City Tour (optional)
• Departure of participants

Chairman

• Gerhard Winkelmann-Oei, Germany

Other activities on tailings safety in the UNECE region

Speakers

• Dmytro Rudakov, Ukraine

Review of the TMF methodology on the recommendations from experts; TMF Checklist and THI: Changes and modifications.

• Kristine Sahakyan, Armenia

Contingency planning (Kura Warning and Alarm system ) with integrating TMF accidents

• Galyna Kovalchuk, Ukraine

General Key-issues for Legal Implementations to the Safety of TMF in former USSR-countries

• Shota Kublashvili, Georgia

Overview of legal assessment to TMF Safety in Georgia and general implications for legal regulation in former USSR-countries ( Legislation and recommendations)

• Vano Grigolashvili, Georgia; Kristine Sahakyan, Armenia

Information on holding of regional trainings in Armenia and Georgia (dates of provision, location, participants selection)

• Farkhat Seifulov, Khzakhstan

further information regarding a pilot project on improving tailings safety in Kazakhstan and beyond, financed by Switzerland in 2018-2019; Presentation “General information on the TMFs in Kazakhstan, addressing the legal regulation and current problems in the sector”; updating the inventory

• Altynai Murzabekova, Kyrgystan

Presentation “General information on the TMFs in Kyrgyzstan, addressing the legal regulation and current problems in the sector”; updating the inventory

• Malkhaz Dzneladze, Georgia

Update on Georgian legislation harmonization within the process EU Association Agreement  (Perspectives of project recommendations  adoption).

• Konstantine Burjanadze, Georgia

Problems in Georgia with contamination (Compiling specific recommendations for Chiatura)

• Altynai Murzabekova, Kyrgystan

Presentation “General information on the TMFs in Kyrgyzstan, addressing the legal regulation and current problems in the sector”; updating the inventory

• General Information on TMF – Kyrgyzstan
• General Information on TMF – Kazakhstan (Available only in Russian)
• Further information regarding a pilot project on improving tailings safety- Kazakhstan (Available only in Russian)
• The state of pollution of the Kvirila river – Georgia
• Planned Regional trainings in Georgia and Armenia – Armenia
• Contingency planning with integrating TMF accidents – Armenia
• Legislation Analysis and Recommendations for Georgia- DRR Center, Georgia
• Recommendations for former USSR countries – DRR Center, Georgia
• Review of the TMF methodology on the recommendations from experts; TMF Checklist and THI: Changes and modifications – Ukraine
• Key-issues related to implementation of EU acquis on safety of TM in former USSR countries – Ukraine

• Vano Grigolashvili, Chairman, Association Rural Development for Future Georgia

Mob: +995 595 10 22 22
Email: vgrigolashvili@rdfg.ge

• Ketevan Gloveli, Project Assistant, Association Rural Development for Future Georgia

Mob: 995 598 65 68 89
Email: kgloveli@rdfg.ge

Media contact:

• Nina Kopaleishvili, Communications Officer, Association Rural Development for Future Georgia

Mob: +995 598 94 00 04
Email: nkopaleishvili@rdfg.ge