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The Ece Symposium on Problems Relating to Environment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2017
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1 E.g., the ECE sponsored a conference on water pollution in 1960, which included papers on water pollution in international law. U.N. Doc. ECE/Water Poll./Conf. 12 (1960).
2 U.N. Doc. ECE/ENV/SYM/Room Doc. No. 1. Experts from the German Democratic Republic were seated at the Symposium and fully participated in its work. The GDR had long sought to participate in ECE activities; for an account of some of these attempts, see Siotis, , “ECE in the Emerging European System,” 561 Int. Conciliation 49–53 (1967)Google Scholar.
3 See U.N. Doc. E/ECE/ENV/2, Dec. 15, 1970, par. 39, stressing the action-oriented nature of the work program.
4 U.N. Doc. ENV/CONF/A. 1, pars. 9–10. It should be noted that even though the title of the Conference was changed to “Symposium,” the participants agreed to continue to use the designation “CONF” for documents prepared before the change.
5 See Report of the Symposium, Problems Relating to Environment, U.N. Doc. E/ECE/ENV/4 (hereinafter ECE Report). The report of the proceedings and documentation of the Symposium, including all the papers, but excluding the country monographs, has been published as U.N. Doc. ST/ECE/ENV/1.
6 Ibid., pars. 5–7.
7 Ibid., par. 8.
8 Ibid.
9 The documents were divided into series, lettered from A-J. The “A” series included program, attendance, lists of participants and documents, and the agenda. “B” comprised 26 country monographs. “C” were general papers, and secretariat reviews of the monographs, critical issues and information series. “D” and “E” were devoted to studies on problem sectors and areas, respectively. “F” consisted of action and implementation papers. “G” related to socio-economic questions, “H” were international organizations’ submissions to the conference and “J” was reserved for 3 submissions by the GDR.
10 ECE Report, par. 48.
11 Ibid., at par. 48(b)–(d).
12 Ibid., par. 48(k).
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid, at par. 18.
15 Ibid, at pars. 17, 40.
16 Ibid, at pars. 45–46.
17 Ibid, at pars. 50–53.
18 Ibid, at par. 17.
19 See, e.g., FRG Country Monograph ENV/CONF. B. 1.
20 ECE Report, Annex I. Since the views were those of the panel members, this section was treated apart from the report.
21 ECE Report, pars. 62–64.
22 Ibid, at par. 63.
23 Ibid. at par. 66.
24 In November, 1971, a meeting of the Advisers was canceled following the Soviet Union’s refusal to attend because of the exclusion of the GDR from participation in the work of the Commission.