Sustainable development is an every nation desire, but only few of these know how to rich it and an even smaller number have concrete measures in this direction. Sustainable development involve changes, especially regarding the consumers and producers mentalities and an appropriate management in time. Which are the changing necessary instruments? Could the change be based only on the legislation development and a strict implementation? Is there a possibility in implementing this legislation by the existing structures?

These are just few questions to think about. The National Environmental Forum is an opportunity to develop a constructive dialogue on environmental related problems and a meeting point for all local and central authorities representatives, Romanian and international business sector, non-governmental organizations and professional associations.

There are a lot of years from the first edition of this event, and today we have the 6th Edition. Initiated as a practical promoting instrument for co-operation on the environment related issues of all the society structures, today the National Environment Forum is trying to tackle the most important Romanian problems in this field: waste management, including the hazardous waste, water resources protection, air protection.

But, the most important thing is that “FORM 99” is trying to help our country on its way to European Union, on the environment protection field, to open the communications means between local financers, European Commission, international financing institutions and the Member States as potential individuals donors.

After four days of conferences, workshops and presentations on the most important problems in the field, from the air pollution to the nature protection, from hazardous waste management to the energy conservation, a real success of this event is the real integration of the environmental protection problem into the work agenda of those who lead today the reform in Romania.

Adina Manuela SURUGIU–RELICOVSCHI
GIE FOLOS, Director Environmental Protection Department