Complaint > EPS Restructuring

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...changes The Bank Management should report on the progress and development of the ‘guidance note’ and on the outcome of this process. 40 Bank Management Response, Annex 2 to the EAR, p. 16. 41 Among others, the Task Force on Access to Information purports to “Continue[s] strengthening implementation of the Convention's provisions on access to information, including through promoting exchange of information, experiences, challenges and good practices concerning public access to information on the ...

Complaint > EPS Emergency Power Sector Reconstruction Loan, EPS Power II and EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...change substantially in the next few years”. First, although 'substantially' can be open to interpretation, we would argue that production was planned to change substantially from 2011 onwards, and that this was known at the time of the appraisal of the project. This is shown for example in the General Regulation Plan for the Area of Barosevac, Medosevac, Zeoke and Burovo (2008) (p.5), which shows that in 2011 production for the Kolubara basin was planned to be at 30 million tonnes while in 2020...

Complaint > EPS Emergency Power Sector Reconstruction Loan, EPS Power II and EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...climate change. Based on this protocol, the baseline should include all the Scope 1 (All direct GHG emissions – defined as emissions from sources that are owned or controlled by the reporting entity) and Scope 2 emissions (Indirect GHG emissions from consumption of purchased electricity, heat or steam - Indirect GHG emissions are emissions that are a consequence of the activities of the reporting entity, but occur at sources owned or controlled by another entity, e.g. In this case – electricity)...

Complaint > Shuakhevi HPP

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for PSI (Georgian)

...changes in the micro-climate of the village, reduction of water in the river bed to only 10%. Company later completely ignored the emerged problems and refuses to deliver its commitment. Plenty of meetings have been held on this topic with government officials, Company representatives and Ministry of Energy of Georgia. They were all in vain. No response followed on the letter sent to the managements of the Banks in August. Construction of the project has been completed and it left no drinking wa...

Complaint > EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...changed much over the past 20 years, regardless of changes of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia since 2006. Apart from the strict centralization of decision- making, this institutional framework creates a large lack of responsibility of each entity. Since the decision is not bound to the implementation, each entity of the institutional framework may adopt any decision, and then transfers responsibility to the superior entity for the lack of implementation. Only the Government has no suc...

Complaint > South-West Corridor Road Project

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for CR (English)

...change have been in the direction opposite to the direction given in the complaint and are not related to road narrowing but different design issues of the junction. The changes have been made and are proposed to be made to make the passage under the bridge towards Russia safer. These changes primarily concern shortening the road barriers at the right side and in the middle. For the direction towards Aktobe mentioned in the Complaint, the proposed change of the central barrier will make the narr...

Complaint > EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...changed much over the past 20 years, regardless of changes of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia since 2006. Apart from the strict centralization of decision- making, this institutional framework creates a large lack of responsibility of each entity. Since the decision is not bound to the implementation, each entity of the institutional framework may adopt any decision, and then transfers responsibility to the superior entity for the lack of implementation. Only the Government has no suc...

Complaint > South-West Corridor Road Project

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for PSI (English)

...change have been in the direction opposite to the direction given in the complaint and are not related to road narrowing but different design issues of the junction. The changes have been made and are proposed to be made to make the passage under the bridge towards Russia safer. These changes primarily concern shortening the road barriers at the right side and in the middle. For the direction towards Aktobe mentioned in the Complaint, the proposed change of the central barrier will make the narr...

Complaint > Tbilisi Railway Bypass 2

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...changes in the area of compensation and mitigation should the final detailed design change in any way from the current plan. (v) Develop contingency agreements as required. For example, spell out in writing what will be done in case of accidents, interruption of service, changes in standards, emergence of new scientific information about risks or impacts, and so forth. (vi) Discuss approaches for improving communication, engagement and information ...

Complaint > DIF Lydian (Amulsar Gold Mine) 2

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...changes in the micro-climate to support populations of P. porphyrantha adjacent to the mine. The brown bear Ursus arctos is a protected species in Armenia and is included in the national Red Data Book with a status of Vulnerable (Margarian 1987). Ecological surveys carried out as part of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for Amulsar has confirmed that a breeding population is present. In spring 2014 two d...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...climate change, human rights and gender.” In line with the EC’s approach and the Court’s rulings regarding the implementation of the EIA Directive, Performance Requirement 1 #9 goes on to instruct that environmental and social assessment should identify associated facilities that are essential to the viability of the project, as well as cumulative impacts “of the project in combination with impacts from other relevant past, present and reasonably foreseeable developments as well as unp...

Complaint > South-West Corridor Road Project

Dispute Resolution: Problem-solving Completion Report (English)

...change sessions involving the authorities, and the site visits to the road, which allowed the authorities and concerned residents to view the problems first-hand. The PSI also featured a road safety capacity-building workshop, which drew attention to road safety risks and introduced important prevention techniques. More specifically, • The dialogue provided an occasion for the parties to sit together and exchange views on issues of mutual concern, in a positive environment, witho...

Complaint > Altain Khuder debt & equity

Filing: Complaint

...change. 9 Cash instead of land based compensation Regardless of whether the compensation amounts reflected the true value of the herders’ camps, a different issue is that cash payments are not effective means of compensating and resettling herders in the first place. As described above, land tenure in Mongolia is highly complex and land is often managed under customary arrangements, of...

Complaint > Paravani Hydro Power Plant

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...changes, most of the relevant directives have been in place for many years and the underlying principles have not changed. In any case the ESP has a finite life (say 5 42 years) and the advice within it could be applicable for that period and then revised according to any changes in EU requirements. 3.One element of the complaint relates to the consideration of project alternatives and the e...

Complaint > EPS Power II

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...changes with the Simić family 89. The Compliance Review Expert was unable to obtain specific information on those aspects. In a communication94 to EBRD responding to queries made by the Compliance Review Expert, EPS mentioned a list of documents, reportedly submitted by EPS to EBRD during meetings held in 2013, which included an appendix devoted to the issue of the expropriation of the Simić family properties 95: However, the Compliance Review was not able to obtain a copy of those ...

Complaint > Altain Khuder debt & equity

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...change Square London EC2A 2JN Telephone: +44 (0)20 7338 6000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7338 7633 Email: pcm@ebrd.com  http://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/project-finance/project-complaint-mechanism.html How to submit a complaint to the PCM Complaints about the environmental and social performance of the EBRD can be submitted by email, telephone or in writing at the above address, or via the online form at:  http://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/project-finance/project-complaint-mechanism/submit-a- complaint.html...