United Nations Environment Programme
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Workshop
Lead Paint Project Sub-Regional Workshop in Central Asia and Eastern Europe
11 - 12 September 2019
Tbilisi, Georgia
- Overview
- Documents
- Objectives
- Presentations
The purpose of the Lead Paint Project Sub-Regional Workshop in Central Asia and Eastern Europe is to assist countries in developing national approaches and also possibly consider regional and cooperative approaches as needed in follow up to the GEF Lead Paint Project Regional Workshop in Almaty. Through its work with the Standards Working Group, the department of commerce would help ensure that standards agencies are represented, as appropriate, and is bolstering intra-agency collaboration within the governments of participating countries. Discussions of standards at the regional level are also facilitated.
- Facilitate meeting and relations between representatives of key ministries, to enhance discussion and support the adoption of lead paint laws.
- Countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe begin to develop national and possibly also regional approaches, where appropriate, to eliminate lead paint through the establishment of laws and regulations.
- Health and economic impacts of lead (Elena Jardan, World Health Organization)
- Raising Awareness about the Need for Lead Paint Laws (Elena Jardan, World Health Organization)
- Overview of Global Efforts to Eliminate Lead Paint - Sub-Regional Workshop on Lead Paint Elimination for Central Asia and Eastern Europe (Angela Bandemehr, US Environmental Protection Agency)
- Promoting Regulatory and Voluntary action by Government and Industry to Phase out Lead in Paint (Desiree Narvaez, UN Environment)
- Raising Awareness of Target Stakeholders aimed at Promoting Actions on Eliminating Lead Paint (Denis Pavlovsky, Chemical Safety Agency)
- Laboratory Capacity, Compliant Paint and Market Forces (MIkael Cofield, U.S. Department of Commerce, Commercial Law Development Program)
- A Model Law and Guidance for Regulating Lead Paint (Amanda Rawls, Rule of Law Initiative, American Bar Association)
- Raising Awareness to Support Governments (Lydia Astanina, Greenwomen)
- Available Lead Paint Test Methods and Laboratories to Support Lead Paint Compliance and Enforcement (Angela Bandemehr, US Environmental Protection Agency)
