 In 2008, Roth initiated a Romanian NGO platform to ban the use of cyanide in mining.The campaign spilled over to Hungary and provoked a ban of cyanide-based mining at the 10th anniversary year of the Baia Mare cyanide accident.This precedent setting vote led to the formation of an informal platform consisting of CEE and CIS-based NGOs campaigning for an EU-wide ban on cyanide based mining.