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LIFE NAT platform Meeting Fi-S-DK

The external monitoring team

Roles & Responsibilities & News

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The European Commission - DG ENV: LIFE ENV & Eco-innovation Unit : ENV/INF/ LIFE NAT Unit: NAT/BIO/INF

National Environmental Authorities - NFPs External contractors assisting the EC Beneficiaries Other stakeholders

Main Players in LIFE

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• Limited human resources at the LIFE Units =>too many projects for the Units alone ... Presently more than 1100 projects are active

• LIFE projects cover a broad spectrum of themes

• The need for technical advises to evaluate project performances and output

• The need to link technical results and financial issues

• The need for a national/regional knowledge and physical presence

The Monitoring Team: Why ?

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The Monitoring Team

An EEIG composed of :

- 9 partner companies- 9 regional offices- a Brussels based coordination office- a Torino based administrative office

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Assistance to the LIFE Units

Advice to beneficiaries

But not to make decisions on the Commission’s

behalf (art. 9.2 of CP) and not involved in the

management of financial resources

Bounded by a confidentiality and independence

declaration

The Monitoring Team: Role ?

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Report/output evaluations (IncR,PR,MTR,FR,...)

technical & financial assessments

Monthly reporting to EC on individual projects

Visits to projects at least once a year:

technical and financial on-site verification

CP compliance

Ex-post monitoring missions (closed projects)

Monitoring and Assessment

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Support to LIFE Beneficiaries

Assistance and advice to projects on reporting, Common Provisions appliance and other issues

MoT acts as a ‘technical interface’encourages exchange of experiences and

stimulate creation of thematic networksAct as advisors - the Commission is NOT

bound by MoT opinions!

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Communication support

Assessment of Communication compliance

with CP and Proposal duties

Assist in liaising with other LIFE projects with

similar objectives/themes => thematic

networks

Liaise with Communication Team for a wider

dissemination of project’s information.

Provides input for LIFE thematic brochures

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Working with the Monitoring Team

Your monitor is always the first person to ask!

Always keep the Monitoring Team informed => contact

them whenever you feel it is needed

Always send one copy of everything that goes to

the Commission to the Monitoring Team (see CP !)

Send a draft copy of reports to the Monitoring Team

But note - the Monitoring Team provides support; their

approval does not mean acceptance by the

Commission services!

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Some news

Kick-off meetings:

Helsinki: 14.10.2013 for Fi, EE, LV, LT

Copenhagen: 22.10.2013 for DK, S, UK, IE, Malta.

You have been invited!

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Some more news

Land-purchase database

The new bio-geographic process

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LPD – Land purchase database

The task: to collect the electronic data on the spatial

boundaries of land parcels bought in projects financed

under the LIFE/LIFE+ Nature programme since 1992

The outcome: end of 2014 – info on all land purchased

with the LIFE funding will be published via Natura 2000

public viewer (hosted by European Environmental

Agency)

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LPD – Land purchase database

CLOSED LIFE projects – task is presently being done by

Astrale

ONGOING LIFE projects – beneficiaries will have to enter

the information in LPD themselves, with assistance from

Astrale, if needed. Before their closure, the projects will

receive a request from EC for data entering.

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LPD – information from beneficiariesWHAT?

Land register number, notarial act (number and date),

clause applicable to the land parcels

Spatial data on the purchased land plots (GIS data,

location, size)

WHEN?

Before submission of the Final report, when all the land is

purchased

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What is this all about?

Biogeographic regions and the

New Biogeographic Process

What did LIFE contribute?

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Aim

Optimal management of the Natura 2000 site

Achieving a Favourable Conservation Statusfor habitats and species having priority in a specific biogeographic region

New Biogeographic Process

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HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS?

Facilitating the discussion between MS, EC and stakeholders on the measures needed

BasisVoluntary cooperationActive involvement of MS and stakeholders / NGOs

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LIFE WorkshopWhy?

– Gathering best practrice experiences to be fed in the biogeo

preparatory workshop

Who?

– Organised by EC, Astrale and a host project (Austria),

– Attended by LIFE project managers, EC, Astrale

What?

– Introduction, Presentation of alpine projects to main habitats,

Excursion, Working Groups

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VISIT THE COMMUNICATION

PLATFORM:

http://www.natura2000communicationplatform.eu/

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Your Monitors

See also: www.astrale.orgBent Jepsen, LIFE NAT coordinator, Astrale

Baltic/Nordic Team

Inta DuceRegional

Coordinator

Bent JepsenMilka Parviainen

Camilla Strandberg-PaneliusInga

Racinska