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LIFE NAT platform Meeting Fi-S-DK
The external monitoring team
Roles & Responsibilities & News
Slide n°1
Main Players in LIFE
 The European Commission - DG ENV:
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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
Slide n°2
The Monitoring Team: Why ?
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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
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LIFE projects cover a broad spectrum of themes
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The need for technical advises to evaluate project
performances and output
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The need to link technical results and financial issues
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The need for a national/regional knowledge and physical
presence
Slide n°3
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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The Monitoring Team: Role ?
 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
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Monitoring and Assessment
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)
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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 networks
 Act 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
Slide n°8
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!
Slide n°9
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!
Slide n°10
Some more news
Land-purchase database
The new bio-geographic process
Slide n°11
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)
Slide n°12
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 beneficiaries
WHAT?
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?
Slide n°15
New Biogeographic Process
Aim
Optimal management of the Natura 2000 site
Achieving a Favourable Conservation Status
for habitats and species having priority in a specific biogeographic region
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HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS?
Facilitating the discussion between MS,
EC and stakeholders on the measures
needed
Basis
 Voluntary cooperation
 Active involvement of MS and stakeholders /
NGOs
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Why?
LIFE Workshop
– 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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Slide n°19
VISIT THE
COMMUNICATION
PLATFORM:
http://www.natura2000communicationplatform.eu/
Slide n°20
Your Monitors
Baltic/Nordic Team
Inta Duce
Regional Coordinator
Inga Racinska
Milka
Parviainen
Camilla
Strandberg-Panelius
Bent Jepsen
See also: www.astrale.org
Slide n°21
Bent Jepsen, LIFE NAT coordinator, Astrale