Our activities:

Advocacy

EPL provides legal consultations to individuals and legal persons in the sphere of environment protection, protection of the environmental rights, and represents individuals and legal persons in courts and other public bodies in cases, related to the violation of environmental legislation.

Environmental Information

EPL collects and spreads an environmental legal and environmental information, publishes books and journals on environmental law issues, closely cooperates with local and national mass-media, maintains environmental law library.

Educational Activities

EPL promotes education of a new generation of environmental lawyers through the clinical program for students from different educational institutions. EPL organizes training programs and workshops for state bodies, judges, prosecutors and NGOs. EPL promotes the improvement of environmental legislation of Ukraine by participating in the law-drafting.

International Activities

EPL organizes and takes part in international workshops and conferences on issues related to the environment. EPL’s lawyers are members of the working groups, expert groups, participate in the negotiations on environmental issues of the international and regional importance. These include climate change, GMOs, pollutant release and transfer registers. EPL is a country office of Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW) and currently hosts the headquarters of the Guta Association. We also run the clinical program on international issues and organize internships.

All our services are free of charge.