Estonian Environmental Law Center (EELC) is an independent expert organization. Our aim is to shape environmental law rules and their application in a manner that takes due account of public interests (health and well-being of citizens, biodiversity).
EELC was founded in 2007 by an environmental NGO Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF) and 3 public interest environmental lawyers – Kärt Vaarmari, Liis Keerberg and Silver Nittim.
In order to achieve our aims, EELC uses various methods and activities:
Read more about our activities under the Projects and Portfolio.
Our activities are partly funded by different donors, e.g. Estonian National Foundation of Civil Society, Environmental Investment Centre and NGO Fund (EEA Grants) but we also provide paid services as a social entrepreneur. This means that we use profits from our services for achieving our statutory goals.
See also our activity report for the period of 2008-2010.
EELC mission is to provide legal expertise in both shaping and application of environmental law rules, protecting public interests in the field.
Our vision is that environmental law rules and their application ensure a living environment which corresponds to needs of human health and well being and protect biodiversity.
EELC's vision as shaper of environmental law is to be accepted expert protecting public environmental interests that acts in a competent and transparent manner.
In our activities, we follow the Code of Ethics of Estonian NGOs (available in Estonian here).
