Dr. Lothar Guendling
Dr. Lothar Guendling

Consultancies in environmental law and institution-building

Major assignments (selection of projects since 1994):
 

SERBIA

2018-2019 Institutional expert in EU project to support the implementation of the Envionmental Approximation Strategy of Serbia

2019-2021 Legal expert in EU funded project supporting the Natura 2000 system in Serbia

 

NORTH MACEDONIA

 

2019-2021 Legal expert in EU funded project to develop the Longterm Stategy on Climate Action and the Law on Climate Action

 

2016-2017 Legal expert in EU project to support the implementation of Natura 2000 in Macedonia

 

2016-2017 Legal expert in EU project to support water resource management at the local level

 

2015-2016 Legal expert in EU project to support Macedonian municiplaities in implementing environmental legislation

 

GEORGIA
2012 Expert and speaker at the intergovernmental conference on environmental education / education for sustainable development (Tbilisi+35) organized by the Ministry of Environment of Georgia, UNESCO and UNEP

2011 Assessment of the draft Environmental Code of Georgia (for the German Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit, GIZ)

2011 Advice on developing an environmental law program (GIZ)

ARMENIA
2016-2017 Legal expert and project coordinator, support of the Armenian Ministry for Nature Protection in the drafting process of the environmental framework law and the law on integrated permitting (phase III of the German-Armenian bilateral consultation)


2013 - 2015 Legal expert to the Ministry of Nature Protection for the drafting of the environmental framework law (phase II of the German - Armenian bilateral consultation)

2012 - 2013 Legal expert to advise the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia on the preparation of an environmental framework law (consultancy commissioned by the German federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety, BMUB)

2010 -2012 Preparation of a project fiche of a EU twinning project on IPPC (for EU Commission)

ROMANIA
2011 Expert in German-Romanian bilateral cooperation to support the implementation of the EU FFH Directive (for German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety, BMU)

2007 – 2009
Resident Twinning Advisor, EU Phare Twinning Project to support the institutional development of the National Environmental Protection Agency of Romania, Phase II

2005- 2007
Resident Twinning Advisor, EU Phare Twinning Project to support the institutional development of the National Environmental Protection Agency of Romania

2002 – 2004
Team Leader, EU Phare Project on the strengthening of the local Environmental Protection Inspectorates and establishing regional Environmental Protection Inspectorates.

2002 – 2003
Legal expert in the World Bank-financed Biodiversity Conservation Management Project

2000 – 2001
Legal expert and later Team Leader in the EU Phare Project on institutional and administrative capacity strengthening


MACEDONIA
2010 - 2011 Legal expert in EU project on regional waste management

2002 – 2004
Legal expert and task coordinator for environmental legislation in EU CARDS Project for the strengthening of the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning

2002 -2003
Legal expert, GTZ Project “Raising awareness in air quality”

2000 – 2002
Legal expert and coordinator in GTZ Project for the drafting of air quality legislation


UKRAINE
2003 – 2004
Legal expert, EU TACIS Twinning Project to support the Environmental Commission of the Ukrainian Parliament

2001 – 2002
Legal expert, EU TACIS Project on the management of the Lower Danube Lakes


REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

2018-2024 Legal expert and coordinator in GIZ implemented project to support air quality and climate change related policies and legislation
2000
Legal expert in the EU TACIS Project on protected area management in the Lower Prut Area


REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
2002 – 2003
Legal expert in GTZ Project to support the biodiversity legislation of the country


NIGERIA
2000 – 2002
Legal expert UK DFID financed forestry legislation project in Cross River State.


KYRGYZSTAN
2000- 2001
Legal expert in GTZ Project to develop a tourism plan for the Issyk Kul region

1999
Legal expert in Swiss INTERCOOPERATION-financed project for the revision of the forestry legislation

1996 – 1998
Legal expert in GTZ project for the development of the Biosphere Territory Issyk Kul


BALTIC STATES AND POLAND
1998 – 2000
Legal expert, EU PHARE project on integrated coastal zone management


ESTONIA
1998
Legal expert in EU PHARE project on the development of a biodiversity strategy


MAURITIUS
2000 Training on legal issues of implementing the Montreal Protocol (GTZ)

1999 – 2000
Legal expert in World Bank project on the development of a waste management strategy


EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN STATES
1999 – 2001
Legal expert in GTZ project to assist the countries of the region with the implementation of the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances


THE GAMBIA
1995 – 1999
Legal expert in GTZ project to support the Environmental Protection Agency of the country


CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
1998 – 1999
Legal expert in EU financed project to reform the wildlife legislation of the country


CAMBODIA
1998
Legal expert in EU project to reform environmental law (waste management, water resources management, nature protection)


TURKEY
1998
Legal expert in World Bank project to prepare the Biodiversity Project for the country


UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (EMIRATE OF SHARJAH)
1997
Legal expert in NGO-supported project to draft protected area legislation


ERITREA
1995 – 1996
Legal expert in IUCN project to draft the framework environmental law and the biodiversity legislation

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