Annual Report
Annual Report
Annual Report
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PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES<br />
The appointment in the middle of 1994 of a scientific assistantand a full. oEuropean<br />
S time coordinator for the ECP/GR programme has considerably strength. cooperative<br />
~programme for crop<br />
ened the Europe Group. Because of this, the level of interactions with the geneic resources<br />
region's national programmes increased substantially in the second half networks(ECP/GR)<br />
of the year. In 1994 two important programmes began. Phase Vof ECP/ 0 European forest<br />
GR represented a new start in this 15-year-old programme. Unanimous geneficresourre<br />
support by participating countries for this new phase will allow<br />
an ambi- progrm<br />
tious programme to be implemented. The European Forest Genetic Re- () Sustainable plant<br />
sources Programme became operational in October 1994 with the orga- genetic resources<br />
nization of the first Network meeting on Populus nigra. Despite the diffi- Programme'in<br />
culty in identifying new sources of funding for this new<br />
initiative, Euro- easeruope<br />
pean countri is provided strong support for the project. Most signatories technology between<br />
of Resolution 2 of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests Europe and<br />
in Europe, held in Strasbourg in 1990, will have joined the programme by developing cuntres<br />
the end of 1995.<br />
The Europe (Grol" h alsolbeen1 abe collaboration' between laboratories in' Eu<br />
to increase its activities in support of c.ast- rope and developing countries, and devel<br />
ernl Europie. A series of join~t missions with olling informal networks involving coun-<br />
FAO strengthiened contacts withi the NeWly tries oil both sides of the Mediterranean.<br />
Independent States of the Caucasus, Cen<br />
tral Asia and the Baltic countries Esto)nia, European Cooperative Programme<br />
Latvia and Lithuanoia, and all1owed anafly- for Crop Genetic Resources<br />
sis of their activi ties ,and needI ill tle area Networks<br />
of plant genetic resources, Techinology lhiase V of IECI)/G;R becamne operational at<br />
transfer between Europe and developing the beginning of 1994. At tile end of the year,<br />
Countries hias also received incr'eased atten- 26 European countries had commnitted<br />
tion. This w.,as achieved through a number themlvels to Participating in this phase,<br />
of mechanisms in"cludin~g training, researchi whiich is schieduled to last 5 years. A further<br />
Abbreviaiions - see pp. 105-106
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