The Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention

June 29 the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (MOP-4) started in Chisinau, Moldova. For three days, negotiators from 44 signatory countries were discussing the status of the implementation, the work programme for the coming years, the compliance mechanism and individual cases of non-compliance, public participation in international fora (PPIF), and whether to open the Aarhus Convention to other countries outside the UNECE region