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“Regional Environmental Network for Accession” Ref: EuropeAid/128906/C/SER/Multi financing nature; making links to management planning. During the training, project team discovered that problems on Dojran Lake are related to: artificially filling of water table (deep aquifer) due to unsustainable agricultural (irrigation) practices; eutrophication; need for scientific environment and nature study to be developed and need for development of joint cross border management plans in order to support preservation of Dojran Lake. Preparations are on-going for the implementation of Module 3 that will be held in Djerdap, Serbia (Serbia and Romania). Under this module focus will be placed on communication with stakeholders. In the next reporting period, Module 4 will be implemented on Shara Mountain (cross border of fYR of Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99). Working Group 1 – Strategic Planning and Investments/Activity 1.3 / Working Group 3 – Cross Border Cooperation and MEAs (KE3 Daiva Semeniene) Activity 1.3 – Investment Planning Sub-group Ms. Semeniene presented the activities implemented under this Sub-group in the reporting period. During period April to June 2011, seven national workshops (in each country) on investment planning and financing plan development has been organised. These were followed by regional workshop on the EU requirements and identification of environmental projects and approximation costs assessment. This regional workshop was also focused on preparation of prioritised lists of environmental projects with regional impact. Main conclusions after the national workshops were the following: additional efforts in transposition of heavy costs directives were necessary; some important strategic documents were still missing, in particular those, which contained identified projects for full compliance with the EU requirements; cooperation among institutions remained problematic, despite that some steps were being taken by establishing joint working groups and other mechanisms; capacity building in project cycle was needed on both central and local level; better established procedures were needed for project identification, prioritisation and implementation; and finally, more clear commitment from countries on level of local financing was needed. Development of long lists of projects should be considered as necessary part, preparing for membership negotiations. Regional workshop on planning of environmental investments combined with 2nd annual meeting of this Subgroup is planned to be held in December 2011 in Tirana. This workshop will also be devoted to further development of priority lists of environmental investment projects with regional impact (final decision on the set of criteria to be used along with the first draft lists will be produced). Collaboration with other regional initiatives and IFIs is ongoing (Sub-group experts participated in the meetings organised by WBIF, DABLAS, etc. Project team provided inputs to DABLAS newsletter and Guide for rapid pre-appraisals of urban wastewater projects). Activity 3.2 – Water Management Ms. Semeniene presented the activities implemented so far as well as planned activities with more details for the events planned for first half of 2012. Two regional workshops were held in March and September 2011 resulting with the improved capacity of the participants on the RBD characterisation, delineation of water bodies, pressures and impacts assessment including diffuse and point pollution, water abstraction and morphological pressures, adequate monitoring systems and typology, identification of water bodies at risk, etc. Next regional workshop will be focused on heavily modified water bodies and new modifications and will be combined with the 2 nd annual meeting of this Sub-group. The workshop/meeting will be held in December 2011. Two more regional workshops are planned in the first half of 2012. Activity 3.3 – EIA and SEA Ms. Semeniene presented the activities implemented under EIA/SEA Sub-group in the reporting period as well as planned activities with more details for the events planned for first half of 2012. Under this Sub-group one regional workshop on approaches to transposition of EIA/SEA directives was held. Next workshop on SEA for IPA programmes is planned to be held in November 2011 combined with the 2 nd annual meeting of this Subgroup. During first half of 2012 two more regional workshops are planned. Working Group 4 – ECENA Mr. van der Putte presented the activities implemented in the reporting period as well as planned activities with more details for the events planned for 2012. Activity 4.1 Common Inspection training Page6 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 The project team implemented sub-regional trainings designed under the Activity 4.1, involving approximately 20 participants per training + inspectors from two other RENA countries in order to improve the exchange of experience. The trainings were implemented for the first four batch of countries. The Manual for national trainings have been developed. Activity 4.2 Country external assessments Under Activity 4.2 the country external assessments were finalised for Serbia, fYR of Macedonia and Montenegro. Site visits were organised for preparation of the reports for Albania and Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99. The visit to Turkey is planned for December 2011. Activity 4.3 EU ETS compliance The first regional workshop on EU ETS compliance is planned for May 2012 to be held in Croatia (still to be confirmed). Activity 4.4 TFS The first regional workshop on TFS (harbour and ship transport) will be organised in collaboration with IMPEL in April 2012 in Turkey. Second workshop is planned to be held on road transport in June 2012. Activity 4.5 Inspection and Enforcement in cross border Nature protection areas The first regional workshop on nature inspection is planned to be held on Lake Ohrid in October 2012. Second regional workshop is planned to be held on Skadar Lake in November 2012. Activity 4.6 ECENA participation in relevant networking activities including IMPEL and other sister networks Collaboration with other relevant networks continued during reporting period, with main focus on collaboration with IMPEL. The efforts of the EC initiated in the previous reporting period resulted with the possibility that IMPEL will change their rules and will allow potential candidates to become the members of the IMPEL. This change will become official most probably after the next General Assembly Meeting of IMPEL that will be held in Warsaw, 24 November 2011. Under this activity, 2 nd Annual meeting of WG4 will be held in Skopje on 18 October 2011. Discussion on the future of RENA Ms. Ivanica explained that the discussion on the future of RENA was initiated during 2 nd SC meeting held in March 2011 and that Focal Points were asked to start thinking on the priorities that should be included on possible RENA 2 project. Ms. Topirceanu made an introduction with the general statement on IPA funds. IPA is instrument for preaccession process. All projects whether national or regional financed by IPA have to be related to pre-accession. Most funds under IPA are related to national projects and are distributed in line with the strategic documents produced by the countries. In 2009 it was decided that the countries had to be more involved in the process of design of projects. Eight priority sectors are established. In order to ensure more participative approach and following the decision made in 2009 working groups are created to design sector plans for the regional interventions. One counterpart has been appointed for each country (national IPA coordinators – NIPACs). NIPACs are responsible for communication with DG Enlargement. In practice it has been demonstrated that communication between NIPACs, line ministries in the countries and RENA Focal Points has not been established at the expected level. Sector plan was produced for the period 2011 – 2013. Twice a year coordination meetings are organised by DG Enlargement for NIPACs. On these meetings strategic decisions and choices are made. One of the strategic decisions is related to RENA 2. At the meeting held in May 2011, it was expected that some basic grounds for priorities for RENA 2 will come from RENA 1. However, these grounds were not ready for meeting in May. NIPAC for fYR of Macedonia, Mr. Vlatko Trpeski therefore took over the responsibility to coordinate the process of consulting RENA FPs and relevant stakeholders in order to make necessary preparations for drafting the project fiche. The information was collected, but the lessons learned from RENA 1 showed that the focus of the countries is rather regional. Draft project fiche has been developed, but it has been rejected since multi beneficiary context has not been properly justified. Therefore more efforts are needed in collecting the relevant information in order to prepare justifiable project fiche proving the sustainability of the possible future project. Ms. Ivanica confirmed that first attempt to receive the information and proposals from FPs for RENA 2 were not at the expected level as most of them could fit perfectly under national IPA and some of them were related to the activities that are already under implementation in RENA 1. Therefore it has been decided to launch Page7 This Project is funded by the European Union A project implemented by Human Dynamics Consortium
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