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Des experts se reuniront a Karlovy Vary (Republique tcheque) du 6 au 10 novembre, dans le cadre d'un seminaire de recherche avancee de l'OTAN, pour examiner les questions que pose l'assainissement des sols et des eaux souterraines dans les pays d'Euro

Experts attending a NATO Advanced Research Workshop will
meet in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, from 6th to 10th
November, to examine issues surrounding remediation
of soil and groundwater in Eastern European countries.
The multidisciplinary group will consider complex factors
in identifying remediation alternatives, including the
lack of lending and insurance institutions, the difficulty
of assigning responsibility, and the difficulty of
quantifying environmental risks.

A major issue involves how to achieve a distributional
goal efficiently - that is, how the costs arising from
pollution created in the past should be borne. Given the
magnitude of existing environmental hazards, the full
internalisation of costs based on a strict and
retroactive application of liability represents a major
problem. If pooled funds for environmental cleanup are
utilised, the danger exists that newly-created hazards
will be claimed as hazards created in the past.

The group of some 45 engineers, economists, lawyers,
managers of industrial complexes, and representatives from
funding agencies, will examine these and related
questions such as "how clean is clean enough?".
Participants will represent an array of countries,
including Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, The
Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, the
Slovak Republic, Turkey, the UK and the USA.

Co-directors of the workshop are Dr. Edward McBean of
Canada and Dr. Jerry Balek of the Czech Republic. For
further information, please contact Dr. McBean
(fax: (1-519)884 5716) or Dr. L. Veiga da Cunha, Director
of the Priority Area on Environmental
Security, NATO (fax: (32-2) 728 4232).