07 April 2017
07.04.2017 - In Rome, Italy, the 28th meeting of the EPA Network continued today, with Ilir Morina, Chief Executive Officer of the Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency, also participating.
As part of his participation in this event, the CEO of the KEPA, among other things, also held a meeting with the Director-General for the Environment at the European Commission, Daniel Cellaja Crespo, with whom he discussed Kosovo's European perspective in the environmental sector and handed over a letter from the Minister of MMPH, Ferat Shala, inviting him to visit Kosovo.
Crespo gladly accepted the invitation, and the visit to Kosovo is expected to take place within the framework of a joint visit with the Director-General of the European Environment Agency, Hans Bruyninckx, as part of visits to the Western Balkan countries.
Otherwise, within the thematic part of the EPA meeting, today the network activities within the interest groups were discussed. One of the important discussions of this session was also on the activities of the Interest Group for the Western Balkan countries, which during the period between the two meetings carried out several activities for the finalization of projects involving the sectors of climate change, air, waste, water, and biodiversity, projects from which Kosovo is also expected to benefit.
In the concluding session of the meeting, several issues related to environmental emergencies were discussed, including the impact of air pollution and climate change on cultural heritage. With the same content was also the study visit that the meeting participants made to several cultural heritage sites in Rome.