"Biodiversity" Working Group

In programming the Structural Funds, the Ecological Network has a highly strategic function in respect of both the implementation, at a national level, of the Community sectoral strategy, and the key role attributed to this sector in the implementation of the Community Support Framework (CSF), particularly in relation to a number of strategic elements, such as the Integrated Territorial Projects.

The tasks entrusted to the Working Group - as described in the document approved by the Network in February 2003 - are collecting and processing information for updating the progress reports on the implementation of the sectoral measures, identifying any criticality that conditioned their progress even with a view to proposing institutional, operational and managerial actions in case of need, creating synergies among the Regions for the transfer of good practices, as well as identifying and detailing specific technical assistance requirements.

The involvement of representatives of the Objective 1 Regions played an important role in identifying and analyzing the criticalities related to the implementation of the Ecological Network, and in defining proposals for technical assistance actions, if any.

The investigation activity has been carried on through meetings with the competent representatives of the regional administrations and has been backed up by informative cards for a constant updating.

The investigation has highlighted several criticalities that, based on the aim of the analysis and with a view to identifying corrective actions, if any, have been broken down as follows.

• Regulatory and administrative instruments, including problems linked to the failure to define or the incomplete definition or implementation of the regulatory or administrative instruments required, based on Community, national or regional regulations, for the actual implementation of the protected areas (national parks, regional parks, oases, Sites of Community Importance or Special Areas of Conservation, etc.).
• Governance problems, including problems related to the institutional, technical and organizational conditions required for the implementation.
• Interferences with the integrated design, which point to the difficulties met in getting the required partnership procedures and the concertation procedures under way prior to the startup of the actual design stage, as well as to the technical criticalities in identifying the forceful or the design idea of the individual measures.

RESULTING DOCUMENT:

• Ecological Network and Strucural Funds in the Objective 1 Regions - (June 2003) [it] (zip, 267 kb)
• Reprogramming ideas - (December 2003) [it] (pdf, 250 kb)
• Ecological Network and CSFs mid-term review (March 2005) [it] (zip, 80 kb)
• Ecological Network and CSFs mid-term review (May 2006) [it] [it] (pdf, 440 kb)
• Activity report - June 2005 [it] (pdf, 31 kb)
• Activity report - December 2005 [it] (pdf, 26 kb)
• Progress in realization of Ecological Network in Objective 1 [it] (pdf, 430 kb)