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Interim Report, No 3, 19 September 2011 – 18 March 2012
Conference on accession to the EU, Enlargement Working Group, documents, which are
considered during the process;
• Provide hands on information on the EU institutional structure for negotiations;
• Provide opportunity for participation in the simulation exercises and drafting the position
papers on the particular EU directive.
The training will be organised in Skopje, fYR of Macedonia in June 2012 (exact dates to be
confirmed).
Delivery of the regional workshop on Protection of Environment through the Criminal law
Following the regional workshop on Approximation of Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of
the environment through criminal law held in Zagreb, Croatia (May 2011) under Activity 1.2, the
decision has been made at the WG1 2 nd Annual Meeting to build on the results of the first
workshop and develop the programme for the second regional workshop that will be held under
Activity 1.2. Since the workshop is the follow up of the introductory workshop organised in May
2011 and since the target group will be slightly different, the draft questionnaire has been developed
and distributed to the beneficiary countries in order to obtain their suggestions for final shaping of
the agenda.
The workshop will be organised in Budva, Montenegro (30 – 31 May 2012).
Update of the EU Handbook on the Implementation of Environmental Legislation
Delivery of the first draft of the Handbook update in accordance with the agreed methodology.
Specific focus has been placed on the update related to climate acquis being the least transposed
and implemented in the beneficiary countries.
Activity 1.3 Investment Planning
During the next reporting period the focus will be placed on the following:
Delivery of the combined meeting on Prioritisation of Environmental Investment Projects and
Project Preparation/ Regional workshop on the Role of National and International Financing
Sources in Environmental Financing and Regional workshop on Programmes of Measures in
Accordance with the WFD (Activity 3.2)
The workshop will, on one hand, be dealing with the demand of finance for the EU accession
driven activities – Development of the Programme of Measures in accordance to the WFD. On the
other hand, it will discuss a range of potential funding sources – the supply of finance side, and
acquaint on how these funding sources have been used in the EU MS and train on how they can
potentially be used in candidate and pre-candidate countries.
This workshop will be combined, as decided during the second SC meeting, with the work on
identification and update of environmental investment project lists. EU, other initiatives and IFIs,
related to the environmental investment planning in Balkan countries and Turkey, will be invited to
the workshop to hear results of the workshops held so far and of the status of the environmental
investment projects lists.
The workshop will be organised in Podgorica, Montenegro (21 – 23 May 2012).
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