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“Regional Environmental Network for Accession” Ref: EuropeAid/128906/C/SER/Multi The Annual Meeting was opened by Ms. Daiva Semėnienė, RENA Key Expert 3, who welcomed the participants and made an introductory presentation. The first part of the meeting was devoted to the RENA WG1 Environmental Investment Planning Subgroup activities during the last year. Ms. Semėnienė gave a brief overview of the implementation status of the work plan of the Environmental Investment Planning Sub-group, recalling national workshops in seven countries, content and outcomes of the first two regional training workshops, as well as some quantitative results. Ms. Semėnienė listed all planned national workshops and training sessions. Two of the regional trainings are already completed and two more are planned for the year 2012. National workshops (in each country) on investment planning April-June 2011 and financing plan development Regional workshop: The EU requirements and identification of environmental projects. Approximation costs assessment September 2011, Dubrovnik Regional workshop: Planning of environmental investments 24-25 January 2012, Tirana Regional workshop: Role of national and international financing First half of 2012 sources in environmental financing Regional workshop: Development of Environmental Financing Second half of 2012 Plans In addition, Ms. Semėnienė acquainted participants with the training materials and other outputs which are planned for this subgroup: • Agreed national format for an investment projects list; • Description of country specific gaps regarding investment projects; • Example content for an investment plan; • Example content for a financing plan; • Workshop reports; • National lists of investment projects; • Updated list of the regional priority environmental investment projects Ms.Semėnienė presented eight activities of coordination with other EC initiatives which had been conducted so far. Furthermore, Ms. Semėnienė provided post-evaluation graphs of the first two regional trainings. On average 17 participants were present in the Environmental Investment Planning sub-group trainings. Evaluation of trainers, training programme and logistical arrangements was mainly excellent and good. During a roundtable discussion exact dates and preliminary venues were agreed for the next two regional workshops and the last annual meeting: Regional workshop: Role of national and international financing sources in environmental financing Programmes of Measures in accordance with the WFD. Together with the Water Management sub-group Regional workshop: Development of Environmental Financing Plans. Annual meeting 21-23 May 2012, Visegrad or Podgorica 20-22 November 2012 Page2 This Project is funded by the European Union A project implemented by Human Dynamics Consortium
“Regional Environmental Network for Accession” Ref: EuropeAid/128906/C/SER/Multi Mr. Antoine Avignon proposed to extend workshops to more than two days combining them with a short tour or site visit in order to ensure better exchange of experience. Discussion on future RENA 2 Ms. Madalina Ivanica briefly introduced the next stage of RENA 2, which is preliminary planned in 2013-2015, and noted that the EC was keen to continue RENA project activities in Balkan countries and Turkey. Currently discussions on the follow-up actions are going on and main issues and topics have to be identified during the coming months. It is important that any follow-up actions are designed in accordance with the needs of the beneficiaries. RENA 2 will still remain a capacity building project, however, it will be more practice-oriented and will aim at more tangible results. Ms. Ivanica reminded that all ideas should have a regional character. She invited the participants to have brainstorm and to express their needs for future RENA 2. Mr. Fatos Bundo proposed to keep EIP sub-working group in future RENA 2 and to have trainings not only for national-level officials but also for representatives of local authorities who are responsible for infrastructure projects. Due to other responsibilities it is too difficult for national-level authorities to train municipalities. Besides, he expressed the need to have some study tours and to share experience not only among RENA beneficiary countries but with a bit more advanced, though similar, countries within the EU as well. Ms. Madalina Ivanica commented that such idea could be supported by RENA 2 but due to lack of sources it would be probably better first to train the trainers who would have obligations to provide training to the local authorities. A representative of Kosovo under UNSCR 1244 asked for assistance in the implementation and enforcement of some EU directives and in the transposition of the water sector directives to their national legislation. Ms. Ivanica commented that transposition of the EU directives while drafting national laws is not part of RENA activities and that a number of workshops related to the directives in the water sector have been provided during current RENA activities. RENA could only assist in gap assessment. Furthermore, such kind of assistance will hardly have a regional character and therefore probably will not be supported by RENA. A representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina offered a few ideas as well. BiH did not establish an IPA III structure in time. Since IPA III is for the training of using the Cohesion and Structural Funds so currently there is a gap and BiH is not able to use these funds. Therefore, representatives from BiH expressed a need for support to establish IPA III, so that they could have a centralized system of preparation and implementation of projects financed by those funds. Furthermore, BiH asked for support in preparing for negotiations with the EU. Moreover, representatives of BiH strongly supported continuation of Croatian participation in future RENA 2 activities, since this would enable other countries to get experience from Croatia. A representative of fYR of Macedonia noted lack of coordination between IFIs and bilateral donors, therefore RENA could take a role of coordination between all donors so that everyone gets a clearer picture of what is going on. Page3 This Project is funded by the European Union A project implemented by Human Dynamics Consortium
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