European processes

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European processes

• NGO training and round-table
• May 2004
• Funded by the Swiss Agency for Environment,
  Forest and Landscape

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Environment for Europe process

• Launched in 1991
• UN/ECE region, 55 countries
• 1991, Dobris 1993, Luzern 1995, Sofia 1998,
  Aarhus 2003, Kyiv

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Environment for Europe process

• Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity
  Strategy (1995, Sofia)
• European arm of the CBD
• Rolling Work Programme since 2001
• leadership role in European biodiversity issues
• improved financial, human, scientific, technical,
  and technological capacity
• national biodiversity strategies and action plans
  and the integration of biodiversity concerns into
  relevant sectors
• better understanding of the importance of
  biodiversity, of the CBD and PEBLDS

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Environment for Europe process

• 5th Ministerial Conference in Kyiv, May 2003
• Kyiv Resolution on Biodiversity
• To halt the loss of biodiversity at all levels by
  2010
• Nine tangible targets

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European Networks of Areas

• Pan-European Ecological Network
• PEBLDS
• Emerald Network
• Bern Convention
• Natura 2000
• EU Birds and Habitats Directives

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Pan-European Ecological Network

• PEBLDS Rolling Work Programme, goal 1
• Should be established by 2005

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Emerald Network

• Bern Convention
• Network of Areas of Special Conservation Interest
  (ASCI)
• Natura 2000 network in the EU member states
• Emerald network pilot projects in other countries

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Natura 2000 Network

• 1979 Birds Directive - Special Protection Areas
• 1992 Habitats Directive - Special Areas of
  Conservation a multistep process for selection
  and designation
• Identification by MS, preselection
• Selection by the Nature Topic Centre of the
  European Environment Agency
• Adoption
• Designation by the MS witin six years

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Natura 2000 Network

• Natura 2000 Network
• Special Protection Areas
• Special Areas of Conservation
• Conservation measures could be
• Management plans
• Statutory measures
• Administrative measures
• Contractual measures

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The European Community Biodiversity Strategy

• The European Community ratified the CBD in 1993
• European Community Biodiversity Strategy (Article
  6 of CBD), 1998
• Four Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs), 2001
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Agriculture
• Fisheries
• Economic and Development Cooperation

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The European Community Biodiversity Strategy

• EC Biodiversity Strategy
• identify gaps in European Community conservation
  policy
• Biodiversity Action Plans
• complementary to other policies and activities
• implemented by the Commission through its services

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The European Community Biodiversity Strategy and
a 2010 Delivery Plan

• The Commission initiated an assessment of the
  implementation, effectiveness and appropriateness
  of the EC Biodiversity Strategy and its four BAPs
  in 2003
• Expected output of the review process 2010
  Delivery Plan

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The 2010 targets an overwiev

• To halt the loss of biodiversity
• Gothenborg Summit of the European Council, 2001
• 5th Pan-European Ministerial Conference, Kyiv
  Resolution on biodiversity, nine tangible
  targets, Kyiv 2003
• To reach a significant reduction in the current
  rate of biodiversity loss
• Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological
  Diversity COP6, the Hague, 2002,
• Johannesburg Summit, 2002