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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). Human Dynamics Consortium 21
Interim Report, No 3, 19 September 2011 – 18 March 2012 • Delivery of the combined regional training on Planning of Environmental Investments and Prioritisation of Environmental Investment Projects and Project Preparation. The training was organised in Tirana, Albania (24 – 25 January 2012). The main items of the agenda were the following: 1. Role of investment plans in environmental policy planning; 2. Institutional aspects of investment planning; 3. Identification of investment projects in the most heavy-cost sectors (water, waste water and waste sectors); 4. Priority setting for investment projects; 5. Concrete planning documents under development in RENA countries; 6. Capacity building and regional cooperation in identification and preparation of environmental investment needs; 7. Prioritisation of proposed investment projects with regional environmental effect; 8. Identification of environmental investment projects in the region; 9. Recommendations from Infrastructure Projects Facility (IPF-1): Western Balkans Investment Framework 10. Presentation of the results and recommendations of the Western Balkan Hot Spot Investment Study; 11. Presentation on the progress of the activities of the IFIs Coordination Office. For more details please see the enclosed workshop report (Annex 10). • Delivery of the 2 nd Annual Meeting of WG 1 Investment Planning Sub-group Coordinators. The meeting was organised in Tirana, Albania (25 January 2012). The main objective of the meeting was to present the implemented activities since the 1 st Annual Meeting and to reach the agreement on the planned activities in the upcoming period (confirmation of the selected topics, dates and venues). • Participation of RENA KE3, Ms. Semeniene at the meetings/workshops organised by other relevant initiatives to introduce the RENA Investment Planning Sub-group, promote the planned activities and ensure synergy between Investment Planning Sub-group and other relevant initiatives implemented by EC, IFIs and bilateral donors: 1. Preparation and participation at the 2 nd Regional NIPAC Workshop, Skopje, fYR of Macedonia, (5 October 2011); 2. Participation in Drin Dialogue meeting, 28 September 2011, Podgorica, Montenegro. Planned activities for the next interim reporting period • Preparation and delivery of the combined meeting on Prioritisation of Environmental Investment Projects and Project Preparation and regional training workshop on the Role of National and International Financing Sources in Environmental Financing - Programmes of Measures in Accordance with the Water Framework Directive. The workshops will be organised as joint events of the Investment Planning Sub-group and Water Management Subgroup in Montenegro (21 – 23 May 2012). • Continuous work on the environmental investment project lists and presentation of the progress in all Annual meetings, regional training/workshops and relevant meetings of related initiatives. Human Dynamics Consortium 22
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