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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
More information on:
DG ELARG: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/index_en.htm
ENP website: http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/index_en.htm