3rd Interim report September 2011- March 2012.pdf - Renanetwork.org

Interim Report, No 3, 19 September 2011 – 18 March 2012
5. Exchange of experience on how Slovakia's Geographic Data conforms to INSPIRE;
6. Added value Spatial Data Infrastructure based on INSPIRE will provide for issues related
to NATURA 2000 and other protected sites, as well as land use/ land cover issues;
7. Added value Spatial Data Infrastructure based on INSPIRE will provide for issues related
to the Water Framework Directive.
The workshop report is under preparation and will be submitted with the next Interim Report.
• The update of the EU Handbook on the Implementation of Environmental Legislation has
been launched. The following activities have been implemented:
1. Defined scope of the Handbook update;
2. Development of the list of national implementing measures;
3. Gap analysis and review of the current version of the Handbook;
4. Preparation of Handbook introduction and chapter 9 on Noise.
Planned activities for the next interim reporting period
• Finalisation of the first draft of the updated version of the EU Handbook on the
Implementation of Environmental Legislation;
• Delivery of the regional training workshop on Simulation of EU negotiation process on
Chapter 27 in Skopje, fYR of Macedonia, (June 2012);
• Delivery of the regional training workshop on Protection of Environment through
Environmental Criminal Law in Budva, Montenegro, (30 – 31 June 2012);
Activity 1.3 Environmental investment planning
Implemented activities during the third interim reporting period
• Delivery of the combined meeting “Prioritisation of environmental investment projects and
project preparation” and regional training/workshop on “The EU requirements and
identification of environmental projects. Approximation costs assessment”. The combined
event was organised in Dubrovnik, Croatia (19-20 September 2011). The main items of the
agenda were the following:
1. Common approaches for approximation cost assessment;
2. Lessons learned in Croatia during environmental cost assessment;
3. Round table discussion on availability of approximation cost numbers in pre-candidate and
candidate countries;
4. Cost assessment methodologies;
5. Examples from environmental cost assessment in new MS and candidate / pre-candidate
countries;
6. Costs assessment in Lithuania: fifteen years experience;
7. Presentation of results from the national Investment Planning sub-group workshops
8. Roundtable on the identification of environmental investment projects in the region;
9. KfW approaches to identify and prepare environmental projects in the region;
10. WBIF approach for identification of environmental investment projects;
11. IFIs coordination mechanisms in environmental investment projects identification.
For more details please see the enclosed workshop report (Annex 9).
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