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Interim Report, No 3, 19 September 2011 – 18 March 2012 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background The Regional Environmental Network for Accession (RENA) has been established as a follow-up project of REReP, the Regional Environmental Reconstruction Programme for Southeast Europe, which ended in 2009. The project has been commissioned to the Consortium led by Human Dynamics with its head office in Vienna, Austria. The overall project objective is to enhance regional cooperation in the Western Balkans and Turkey in the field of environment in the prospect of accession to the European Union. The cooperation between the countries through RENA is focused on priority areas of approximation to the EU environmental and climate acquis. RENA supports eight beneficiary countries, which are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, the fYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey. RENA primarily supports the administrative authorities with responsibility for environment and natural resources in the beneficiary countries, that is, ministries with primary responsibility for environmental protection, and other ministries, institutions, and authorities responsible for, e.g., nature, climate, water, forestry or chemicals. RENA also coordinates and cooperates with other stakeholders and initiatives working in the region, including: • International Financing Institutions, bilateral donors, international organisations: Cooperation is facilitated through Support to EC/IFI Coordination in the Western Balkans and Turkey organisation of back to back meetings, participation in workshops and trainings; • Other EU related initiatives and projects, like WBIF, DABLAS, HORIZON 2020 and others: Cooperation is facilitated through organisation of back to back meetings, participation in training and workshops, sharing and promotion of lists of priority projects with regional impact on environment; • Environmental Civil Society Organisations and Non-governmental Organisations: Cooperation was facilitated through the Environment Forum project until the finalisation of the project, and since then it has been facilitated through the nominated representatives of the NGOs; • Neighbouring EU member states and other EU member states: Cooperation is facilitated through invitations to participate in trainings and workshops. RENA priority issues are based on those set by the environment ministers of the eight beneficiary countries. These priority issues are: • Strategic planning of the pre-accession process; • Public participation; • Climate change; • Cross border cooperation on environment; • Preparation of environmental investment projects. Human Dynamics Consortium 7
Interim Report, No 3, 19 September 2011 – 18 March 2012 Concrete RENA activities under the priority issues are covering broad range of activities, including capacity building workshops, seminars, training and pilot projects and are implemented through four Working Groups as follows: WG 1: Strategic Planning and Investments WG 2: Climate Change WG 3: Cross border Cooperation and Multilateral Environmental Agreements WG 4: Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network for Accession All activities designed under RENA are focused on networking and mutual support, in order to provide the best possible value with the resources available. The activities are designed to complement the major regional and national projects that support approximation of the environment and climate acquis. WG 1 Strategic Planning & Investments The overall objective of this working group is to increase the quality of transposition and implementation activities in the beneficiary countries and to assure regional cooperation in environmental investment planning. Particular emphasis will be placed on improving the transposition of EU environmental legal requirements and improving the institutional structures for implementation and enforcement of the transposed EU directives. The main tasks of this component are to: • Improve plans, strategies and structures for approximation; • Identify areas for training and other support to be provided through RISP; • Improving public participation in order to build support for the adoption and implementation of environmental legislation; • Monitoring progress in approximation of the environmental and climate acquis in preparation for accession, especially the transposition and implementation of EU environmental legislation; • Upon their request channelled through the European Commission, providing beneficiaries with an external opinion on the compliance of national draft legislation with the EU environmental and climate acquis; • Build capacity in the identification and preparation of environmental investment projects; and • Coordinate environmental investment needs with IFIs. WG 2 Climate Change The overall objective of this Working Group is to increase capacity in the SEE and strengthen cooperation amongst the SEE countries and the EU in policy-making, law drafting and implementation of elements of the European climate change policies and legislation (Climate change acquis). The main tasks of this component are designed to: • Build knowledge and capacity in EU climate change policy and legislation from an EU accession perspective, and at the level of policy-making, law drafting and implementation in the RENA countries; Human Dynamics Consortium 8
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