The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is to form into an international organisation. The international agreement on the issue was signed in the name of the Government by Minister of Rural Development Sándor Fazekas. As a result of the agreement, new opportunities will be available to the organisation, and it will be able to perform its duties and responsibilities more efficiently.

The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe is essentially involved in supporting and financing environmental projects within the region, developing and reinforcing the "green" non-governmental sector, training experts, and furthering the development and implementation of international environmental law.

Sándor Fazekas (photo: Csaba Pelsőczy)

The creation of the organisation was initiated in 1999 by the President of the United States at the time, the European Commission and Hungary.

(Press Office of the Ministry of Rural Development)