In January – June 2004 EPL (formerly Ecopravo-Lviv) implemented a project “Promoting EU Environmental Law in Ukraine” which was aimed to create a broad understanding in universities and NGO community in Ukraine about EU environmental law. The project was implemented with financial support of the European Commission.

The main activities implemented within project included the development and publication of a manual on EU environmental law; translation into Ukrainian and publication of basic EU environmental legislation; targeted dissemination of the manual and supplement among universities and libraries; development and dissemination of selected materials for the NGO community.

In June 2004 EPL issued two publications:

- European Union Environmental Law. Mykievych M., Andrusevych N., Budyakova T. Textbook. – Lviv, 2004 (in Ukrainian);

The textbook covers both general and specific issues in the field of EU Environmental Law. The General Part includes notion, development, subject areas, principles, sources of the EU Environmental Law and EU institutions in the field of environmental protection. The Selected Topics part of the textbook includes some specific legal issues of the environmental protection within the European Union, such as climate change, biodiversity protection, waste management. It also contains excerpts, mostly in English, from the EU legal acts, case law of the European Court of Justice, and relevant reports of the EU institutions.

- Compendium of the EU Legal Acts in the Field of Environmental Protection. – Lviv, 2004 (in Ukrainian).

The compendium contains translation into Ukrainina of the legal acts of the European Union in the field of environmental protection, including excerpts of the Treaty establishing the European Community, Sixth Program on Environment, directives and regulations on the environmental protection.
The Compendium, together with the textbook on EU Environmental Law represents a part of the single guidance material for teaching and studying the EU Environmental Law. The textbook was prepared in the close cooperation with the Department of European Law of the Faculty of International Relations of the Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko.
The presentation of these publications took place on June 30, 2004, in the library of Ecopravo-Lviv.

We sent these books to 150 universities and libraries of Ukraine, provided them to NGOs and placed them for downloading on our web-site at: http://www.epl.org.ua/publicaciji.htm.

Within the project we prepared selected materials on some current issues of the EU environmental law (adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the EU legislation in the field of environmental protection; waste treatment in EU; EU law of the climate change prevention; conservation and protection of the biodiversity in EU environmental law). These materials were published in the Environmental Advocacy Journal (# 26, 27).