This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Man-Made & Industrial Disasters Environmental issues Co-participating in the Training Tailing Management Facility Task C2.3 Assistance to Government Environmental Emergency Projects Project Preparation Assistance (PPA)

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Assistance to Government Environmental Emergency Projects 3.1 Project Preparation Assistance (PPA): Key driver : Country with national Working Group PPRD assists active Working group Round Table August 2011 Problem analysis and Joint action plan Follow-up meeting Kiev November 2011 Concrete separate actions December plan + budget for approval by Minister

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Country’s National Expert Team PPRD Key expert Principal of mechanism: country does all homework incl. preparation PPRD adds up with specific expertise

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership 1st Round Table in Kalush, August 2011: site visit and public debate HCB waste repacked and stored for export

PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership This Programme is funded by the European Union

Interesting conclusion about the mechanism: Most urgent project in region Kalush project was a combination of: TMF Tailing Management Facilities with high danger of collapse of tailing dams and consequences to drinking water supply of Millions of inhabitants of Moldova and Western Ukraine (Dniestr) Chemicals dangers: Ukraine eliminated more than 30,000 tons of extremely dangerous HCB PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership This Programme is funded by the European Union

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership At Steering Committee meeting 2013: 2 Project Preparation Assistances (PPAs) were budgeted Requests could be forwarded till end of April 2013  …………… No requests received  …………... Mechanism was closed!

2.3.2 Co-participating in the Training Tailing Management Facility PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership This Programme is funded by the European Union The unrecoverable and uneconomic metals, minerals, chemicals, organics and process water are discharged, normally as slurry, to a final storage area commonly known as a Tailings Management Facility (TMF) or Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) Tailings: ground rock & process effluents that are generated in a mine processing plant

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Improving the Safety of Tailing Management Facilities for Ukraine –UBA Germany Base: UNECE "Safety Guidelines and Good Practices for Tailings Management Facilities (TMF)" August 2013: Startup with Kick-off meeting in August 2013 in Kiev  Discussion action plan for the project Step 1: November 2013: Investigation of degree of implementation in legislation and administration in Ukraine in relation to implementation of UNECE Guidelines

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Step 2: Start end of August 2013 Analysis of safety specific technical provisions at concrete TMF (2 sites), by means of CHECKLIST by Ukrainian Team supported by international experts, to be used for: Training of Inspectors and Operators in Ukraine to improve the safety of TMF 14 November Steering Committee meeting in Kiev with authorities and International experts that have given input to the work of the Ukrainian TMF experts First discussions Comments/input on the draft checklists PPRD –East Sergej Anagnosti ---- issues on cooperation PPRD 2nd Draft has been and will be used for the 1 st Training

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership PURPOSE OF Checklist: Work out a Catalogue for the necessary  Short-term measures  Medium-term measures  Long-term measures in order to initiate the potentially necessary safety measures

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Measures Short-Medium term are simple/easy to implement at low cost Long-term measures in order to secure an international acceptable safety level in the long-term The checklist is therefore an international Cross border tool that supports the capacity-building for Authorities and Operators UN ECE can easily support process of training and use in whole UNECE region in future

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Step 3: Field training and field test May 2014: Lviv TMF Explanation of modules for participants Site testing of checklist on practicability by Ukrainian regional inspectors, owners and inspectors of PPRD-East project and International experts Participation by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia based on official requests received Last minute call offs from Armenian and Azeri colleagues and some international experts fearing the situation in Ukraine, however all was perfect in Lviv!

TMF Access Road: during rains and in winter times heavy economic losses due to extreme difficult transport conditions (investments needed)

Stability of Tailings

Pipeline ”maintenance problems”

Top: Guidance by TMF operator for the inspectors Right hand: Monitoring well for groundwater

Re-utilization and re-exploitation of first disposal site, which is now again economically feasible

Ukrainian and Georgian PPRD Inspectors surrounded by international experts and organisers and Armenian TMF owner

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Step 4: June-August new improvement of checklist Step 5: October-November 2014: 2nd Field training and field test at TMF in Dnepropetrovsk region – What about possibility of PPRD countries participation? PPRD Phase 2 will start …………….2015………….????? Step 6: Final improvement of checklist Step 7: final setup of Training Toolkit Step 8: International workshop on project results: 2015 New opportunity for joint-venture with PPRD-Phase 2