EEA support to West Balkan countries

Milan Chrenko, NFP/Eionet CoordinatorEuropean Environment Agency

The European Environment Agency:

- is established by EEC regulation

- is an independent information provider

- is an analyst and assessor

- is building bridges between science and policy

- is dependent upon strong networks to carry out its work

… to support policy processes and inform the

public

European Environment Agency

Eionet’s role

• Coordinating national data/information flows

• Providing country-level expertise and advice

• Linking EEA to member country sourcesand vice versa

• Promoting EEA activities and outputs at national level

Cooperating with EEA to provide sound, independent information on the environment.

* Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99

EEA - geographical coverage

Overview of IPA Project

Long-term Goal

Objective

Duration

Budget

Participation in EEA Work Programme

Extension of the participation of the WB countries in the activities of EEA

24 months (2010-2011)

1.2 meuro

Successor to PHARE, CARDS and EuropeAid Programme support for West Balkan

IPA Objectives

• Support for inclusion in regular assessment reports

(SOER2010, Horizon2020) – Session 2

• Development of a regular indicator reporting system (EEA Core set indicators) – Session 3

• Extension of main EEA topic areas to the West Balkan countries - Session 4

- Water- Air and Climate Change- Biological Diversity- Sustainable consumption and production

IPA Objectives (cont.)

• Networking• Development of the Eionet network and participation

of NRCs/country experts in major EEA meetings and events

• Capacity development• Overall EEA Project Coordination and Technical

support

IPA in numbers

• > 50 (in 2010) and ~ 80 (in 2011) experts participated at Eionet workshops

• > 200 WB experts participated at > 30 meetings in 2011

• 6 NFP Assistants

• 2 regional workshops

• country visits to all WB countries

Participation at Eionet meetings 2010-2011

Thank you!

Useful links

• EEA web site - www.eea.europa.eu

• Eionet portal - eionet.europa.eu

• EEA data products - www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps

• Reportnet - www.eionet.europa.eu/reportnet

• Priority data flows - www.eionet.europa.eu/dataflows