CEEHRN pisze:

Dears,
The UNGASS/drugs NGO process is something that is watched by
governments but
is led by NGO Committee, where there are no governments (but there are
diversity of NGOs).

Funding that was received for the process is limited and this is the
argument why there is no regional consultation for the EU.
I think that the EC will manage to set up consultation process with NGOs,
and there structure could be used for this purpose. Probably there will be
funds dedicated for this purpose as well.

I see the International Network of People Who Use Drugs as a very timely
initiative in this regard. I spoke to representatives of the EC and
briefed
them about the developing process of structure, activities etc. The
reaction
was positive. Hopefully Marianna and Stijn would have some time soon to
discuss follow up steps to reach out the Commission.

There should be also a role for ENCOD in my opinion. But frankly
speaking I
saw challenging relationships between people in the EC drugs unit and
ENCOD
representatives. But this is something that is more related with
upcoming EU NGO civil society forum on drugs or some other
structure/mechanism of civil society consultation by the EC.


ECAD (European Cities Against Drugs) is NGO, while it is uniting non-NGOs.
So they are eligible for co-hosting regional consultation. As you
understand, we checked this before with Vienna NGO committee... it is
challenging for CEEHRN to co-host a meeting with ECAD.

encod pisze:

Dear Raminta and others,

Funding is always a way to steer processes. Those who pay decide. You and
me know very well that ECAD has not been chosen randomly. It is nice that
CEE HRN has been chosen as well, but this does not make the whole
operation
a sincere effort to have a dialogue with the world's "non governmental
sector".

The same concerning the EU level. Of course there should be room for
INPUD.
As there should be room for ENCOD. If you would accept that the Commission
prefers working with one in stead of the other, then you agree with a
strange idea of consultation.

The fact that some Commission people may not like ENCODs
representatives is
also caused by the fact that we have been pushing for this dialogue for
years, and that we have the support of the European Parliament. Also we
obtained the concrete budget for this dialogue (1 million euro/year) by an
amendment in the EP last year, this forces the Commission to work with
this
amount and not a vague one which they can limit as they want.

The Commission has said that only 60 networks/organisations/people
re-acted
to the Green paper. If you have 1 million euro a year, you can easily
involve all these 60 respondents in the next step. No logistical or
technical objections can be used as an argument there.

The Commission dialogue should be open to anyone who can claim to
represent
civil society and is concerned with the drug issue.. Let us work together
in order to achieve that, in stead of trying to be friends with the
Commission so we can be sure to receive some euros.

Szanowny Panie,
Uprzejmie informuję, iż w tym roku konferencja prasowa dotycząca prezentacji raportu INCB za rok 2006 nie odbędzie się w Polsce. Natomiast przetłumaczone noty prasowe zostana zawarte na stronie Ośrodka Informacji ONZ w Warszawie. W tym roku prezentacja Raportu na całym świecie odbędzie się 28 lutego br. Bardzo proszę o kontakt telefoniczny po 28 lutego - jeżeli będę miała "wolne" Raporty z przyjemnością podaruję Panu egzemplarz. Raport niestety nie może być udostępniony wcześniej ze względu na embargo.