prioritizing critieria for new proposals 1. agreed reporting obligation at the european/global...
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Future needs for EIONET data flows for European
biodiversity assessments
Break- out group A
Prioritizing critieria for new proposals
1. Agreed reporting obligation at the European/global level. Legally binding measures
2. Relevant indicator developed at national/European/international level
3. Policy relevance at the European/global level4. Added value in terms of existing/ improving the level of the relevant level of the relevant institutional capacity on the countries
5. Added value in in terms of meeting an acknow-ledged data/information gap at the European level.
Comments to Question 1
Why are we are trying to expand what we have when we have such great gaps in the dataflows today? More efforts should be made by the EEA to help MS to help meet present requirements.
Difficult to explore new areas where we have not agreed on indicators for common implementation framework
Comments to Question 1
Emphasize not increasing the burden
First priority is Aichi targets A indicators. C category more relevant for national levels.
SEBI and Aichi indicators often the same.
Thread of flexibility. Reporting to European level and global – should have flexibility
Need to harmonize data
New dataflows Ecosytem services indicator
IAS – data available in a number of countries in various states of availability (i.e. UK, Norway, Switzerland can deliver today), gaps in others
Bats – data available through Batlife (Eurobats. Important for public awareness
Insects
Number of NGO’s
Question 2 – general comments
Problem with mobilization of data, financial resources needed to be accessed.
Comments cont.
Role of NGO’s in developing and supporting new indicators
Important to use grassroot support when available
Valuable with voluntary citizen science reporting, but difficult to cover an entire country. Pointwise monitoring better for supporting indicators.