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Financing opportunities for nature

conservation in the CarpathiansFocus on non-EU countries

Hostetin, Czech Republic,

3 October 2007

Regulatory Framework for External Assistance

9 Legal Instruments

• European Development Fund (EDF)

• Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)

• European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI)

• Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA)

• Instrument for Stability (IfS)

• European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)

• Nuclear Safety Instrument (NSI)

• Industrialised Countries Instrument (ICI)

• Humanitarian Aid Instrument (HAI)

European Neighbourhood and Partnership

Instrument, ENPI

• Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia,

Israel,Jordan,Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, West Bank and

Gaza, Russian Federation, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine

• Replaces TACIS and MEDA

• Country, Multi-Country and Cross-border Cooperation

• € 11.181 billion from 2007 to 2013

• Objective : support the implementation of the European Neighbourhood

Policy and of reforms in a number of areas jointly agreed between the

EU and the partner country

• The ENP aims to “prevent the emergence of new dividing lines

between the enlarged EU and its neighbours and offer them the chance

to participate in various EU activities, through greater political, security,

economic and cultural co-operation.”

• ENP website: http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/index_en.htm

European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (2007-2013)

• Country programmes

>>>Ukrainehttp://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/documents_en.htm

• Cross-Border Cooperation programmes

= Cooperation between regions of Member States and of

neighbouring countries (NC) sharing a common border

>>>Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine

• Multi-country programmes

>>>Regional programme East

ENPI Cross-Border Cooperation

Hungary-Slovakia-Ukraine-Romania

Draft programme:http://www.mie.ro/_documente/state_

nemembre/consultare_enpi/Program

ul%20Operational.pdf

COM website:

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/project

s/enpi_cross_border/index_en.htm

ENPI CBC Calls for proposals

• Joint Managing Authority (JMA): Romanian Ministry for European Integration

>>> will launch calls for proposals in the second quarter of 2008

• Eligibility criteria:

• Only up to 20% of a project budget may be spent for activities carried out by partners located in the adjoining regions.

• At least one partner must have nationality from an eligible MS and the other must have eligible NC nationality. Projects between partners from NC only will not be accepted.

• Lead Partner and the partners must have the headquarters in the eligible area of the programme.

• Final eligibility criteria will be in the guidelines of the calls

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Next steps on ENPI CBC

• Start building contacts to the JMA, check eligibility of your

organisation and test their openness for your projects

• Register on the “European Territorial Cooperation Objective

Beneficiaries Support Portal”: http://81.196.2.156/www%5Fmdlpl/

• Read the programme document

• Start thinking about project ideas and potential partners

• Develop a short 2-4 page outline of the potential project and discuss with managing authority

• Check the JMA website regularly for possible calls for proposals: www.mie.ro

• Develop a full project application in close coordination with the

JMA (and Regional Capacity Building Initiative (RCBI))

ENPI regional East

• 2007-2010: € 223.5 M

• Priorities of interest to WWF

- Environment protection and

forestry, climate change, water (25-35%)

- People to people activities,

incl. environmental awareness-raising (10-15%)

• Eligible countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine

http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/country/enpi_ea

stern_rsp_en.pdfhttp://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/country/enpi_ea

stern_rip_en.pdf

ENPI regional East

• International calls for proposals/ tenders expected to be launched mid- 2008

• Projects needs to be multi-country

• Eligibility rules: organisations based in Member States (MS) or in eligible ENPI countries

• EuropeAid website: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

• Launched by Headquarters (HQ)

• Even when launched by HQ, EC Delegation always co-evaluating so very important to “share ideas” with them ahead of the calls.

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

Thematic programmes

• Legal basis: Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)

• Eligible countries: all ENPI countries, ACP, Asia, Central Asiaand Latin America

• 5 Thematic Programmes:

– Environment and Sustainable Management of NR incl. Energy

– Non-State actors and local authorities in development

– Food Security

– Investing in People

– Migration and Asylum

Thematic programme on environment and sustainable management of natural resources,

including energy (ENRTP)

• Amount for ENPI countries: € 63M for 2007-2013, €30.7M for 2007-2010

• Issues: climate change, biodiversity, energy and the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund, GEEREF

• First calls for proposals to be launched in November-December 2007 from EC HQ

• Programming led by HQ, but ECD involved in the evaluation of proposals presented in the context of Calls for proposals

• Projects needs to be multi-country

• Organisations based in MS and beneficiary countries are eligible

• EuropeAid website: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

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Thematic, regional or CBC?

• CBC:

- more focused on the Carpathian ecoregion

- small amounts

- pb: eligibility rules

• Regional programmes:

- big multi-country projects

- big amount

- highly competitive

- pb: activities in the Carpathians will only be one part of the project

Thematic, regional or CBC?

• Thematic programmes :

- highly competitive

- big multi-country projects

- pb: activities in the Carpathians will only be one part of the project

- Only a very limited number of projects will be financed:

3 or 4 per year for all ENPI countries

- Limited number of issues

Instrument for Pre-Accession

• Total amount (2007-2013): €11.468billion

• It replaces PHARE, ISPA, SAPARD, the Turkish pre-accession instrument, and the financial instrument for the Western BalkansCARDS.

• IPA covers candidate countries (currently Croatia, the FYROM, Turkey) and potential candidates (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Montenegro, Serbia incl.Kosovo).

• Country, multi-country and cross-border cooperation programmes

• Objective: “assist the countries in their progressive alignment with the standards and policies of the EU, including where appropriate theacquis communautaire, with a view to membership” (IPA Regulation)

• DG ENL: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/index_en.htm

IPA Serbia (1)

• National Programme 2007-2009: €572.4M

http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/mipd_serbia_2007_2009_en.pdf

• Allocations per component:

I. Transition assistance and institution building: €540.5M

- Political requirements

- Socio-economic requirements

- European approximation of sectoral policies

II. Cross Border Cooperation: €31.9M

-IPA CBC Hungary-Serbia

-IPA CBC Romania-Serbia: http://81.196.2.156/www%5Fmdlpl/

-IPA CBC Bulgaria-Serbia

-other CBC / ERDF transnational and interregional programmes

IPA Serbia (2)

• Multi-Beneficiary programme 2007-2009 : €401.4M

(I)Regional cooperation, (ii) infrastructure development, ….(vi)supporting civil society

http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/mipd_multibeneficiary_2007_2009_en.pdf

• Tenders and calls for proposals published:

- on EC delegation website (local):http://www.eudelyug.org/en/

- on EuropeAid website (international):

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

Programming at country level(1)

• This is where the “big” financial envelope goes to!

• Subject to a joint programming between beneficiary country/ HQ/ EC delegation on the ground:

� Country Strategy Paper 2007-2013(identifies focal & non focal areas of intervention)/ Multi-Annual Indicative

Programme 2007-2009

� National Indicative Programme (identifies financial

allocation)

• On the basis of priorities identified in the CSP/NIP, EC Delegations and beneficiary countries define the projects to be

financed in Annual Action Programmes

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Programming at country level(2)

• Becoming more involved in this policy process would be valuable to ensure that your fields of interest are given due

attention, but this requires capacity on the ground.

• Need to be aware of what will be financed, when and how well

in advance.

• Regular contacts with EC delegations (ENPI) are essential as well as with relevant beneficiary country stakeholders (IPA) to share ideas ahead of the calls and feed in the programming

process.

Some Tips

• Be pro-active!

- Identify which programme (country, regional, CBC, thematic?) is

most relevant to your planned activities

- On the basis of the programme, identify potential project opportunities

- Meet regularly with EC Delegation(Ukraine) and/or Ministry of Environment (Serbia) to feed in the programming process at

country level and share ideas ahead of the calls

- Start thinking about project ideas ahead of the calls

- Be ready for the publication of the AAPs and calls for proposals on Europeaid website: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl

- ...and go for it !!!

Thank you...

Pauline Denissel, WWF European Policy Office

pdenissel@wwfepo.org

More information on:

DG ELARG: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/index_en.htm

ENP website: http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/index_en.htm