OCT Environmental Profiles

DEVCO-TF OCT, September 2013

Environmental Profiles 2007

Included Analysis of • environmental situation• policies• institutional capacities • environmental co-operation experience

1. As well as recommendations for the integration of the environment into aid programming

Results Environmental Profiles 2007

Challenges:• Climate change• Threats to wildlife and biodiversity• Waste• Natural disasters• Pollution and siltation of coastal waters and

rivers• Overexploitation of resources

Recommendations: regional as well as territorial

New Framework•Green Paper (2008)• Joint Political Position (2009)•Commission Communication (2009)•Council Conclusions (2009)• Impact Assessment and •Overseas Association Decision

proposal for the post-2013 period (2012)

Environmental Profiles 2013: Purpose

• Provide a useful instrument: • For OCTs, the Member States to which

they are linked and the European Commission in the context of the 11th EDF programming process;

• For OCTs and the EU, in the frame of post-2013 EU programmes to which OCTs are eligible

DeliverablesComprehensive update of the 2007 OCTs Environmental Profiles:Analysis of:

• Environmental situation – Check and incorporate new studies and reports on OCTs

Placing emphasis on challenges and vulnerabilities while focusing particularly on new developments since 2006

• Update current policies • Update institutional framework and capacities • Environmental Co-operation experience, regional

integration

Recommendations provided in the form of action plans (detailed in terms of time needed, funds and human resources).

Work Plan

Report to elaborated through:

• Desk research• Visits to main stakeholders in Brussels• Visits to member states• Focused Questionnaires • Electronic feedback to draft• Presentations

Process• Consultants are expected to produce 4 reports:

• 1) An inception report, detailing the approach and first working assumptions, to be delivered two weeks after the initial briefing in Brussels. Expected date: mdi-October

• 2) An interim report of the study, to be submitted for comments to the European Commission, Member States and OCTA by the end of Month 3.

• 3) A draft final report, to be submitted for comments to the European Commission, Member States and OCTA during Month 5.

• 4) A final report, to be circulated for approval in Month 6.

• The interim report, draft final report and final report should all be prepared in both English and French of publishable quality.

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