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The letter expresses the concern about potential environmental impacts and sustainability aspects of the proposal to further simplify EU funds regulations as a response to the economic crisis.

The letter is drawing attention to a number of serious deficiencies surrounding the South Ukraine Transmission Project. The project is expected to be financed by both the EBRD and EIB, but the public consultations surrounding the project have been seriously tarnished.

Construction of such transmission lines potentially affects the lives and everyday business of local people. Yet, as the document shows, their access to the project information is being restricted.

In this issue: Disclosure policy review - A glass of information half full or half empty? * Bank 'panglosses' over the facts with new Georgian partnership strategy * EBRD, EIB culpable of policy violations in resettling Belgrade Roma * Heat rising on international public lenders to come clean for the climate * ČEZ chez the EIB – It's invite only to the black masque energy security fundraiser * IMF's pro-cyclical brakes pile on the misery across central and eastern Europe * The silence of the scams no more

The complaint concerns the European Investment Banks failure to adhere to its own transparency and social standards in the Gazela Bridge Rehabilitation project in the Republic of Serbia. It has been sent simultaneously to the European Ombudsman.

CEE Bankwatch Network's inputs into the EBRDs evaluation of its work in the Municipal Environmental Infrastructure sector, a sector playing an important role in determining the quality of peoples lives through waste management, water and wastewater, and urban transport projects.

On October 27, 2009 we received EBRD's response. Download it here.

The study can be downloaded in pdf (55 MB) from the webpage dedicated to relevant documents regarding the Demir Kapija-Smokvica highway. The webpage is hosted by the Macedonian government.

full text: http://www.vlada.mk/files/doc/studija_zs/EIA_Demir_Kapija_Smokvica_UPDAT...