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EU Strategy for the Danube Region

Dr. János Fehér

GWP CEE Danube Strategy Task Force Leader

Tools for project implementation in the frame of DRS

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Challenge for European UnionUp to 2004

Currently

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Objective:Development of co-operation between different countries and areas including local and regional actors as well as coordination of policy development and resources in order to meet common challenges, solutions and actions.

So far four MRS: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/cooperation/macro-regional-strategies/

2009: Baltic Region Strategy 2011: Danube Region Strategy2014: Adriatic and Ionian Region Strategy2015 (June): Alpine Region Strategy

EU Macro Regional Strategies

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/policy/cooperation/macro-regional-strategies/


EU Strategy for the Danube Region


Per capita GDP in USD (2013)


Current status of DRS

The Priority Areas are connected involving multiple sectors to each other:

environmental protection navigability economic development labour mobility human resource

development 'soft' security measures, institutional development etc.


Priority Area 4 - To restore and maintain the quality of waters

Priority Area 5 - To manage environmental risks

Priority Area 6 - To preserve biodiversity, landscape and the quality of air and soil

Pillar 2 - Protecting the Environment in the Danube Region


PA 4 Actions

1. Action - To implement fully the Danube River Basin Management Plan

2. Action - To greatly strengthen cooperation at sub-basin level

3. Action - To continue to invest in and support the information collection systems already developed by ICPDR

4. Action - To continue boosting major investments in building and upgrading urban wastewater treatmentfacilities across the Danube Basin, including measures to build capacity at the regional and local level for the design of such infrastructure

5. Action - To establish buffer strips along the rivers to retain nutrients and to promote alternative collection and treatment of waste in small rural settlements

6. Action - To foster and develop an active process of dialogue and cooperation between authoritiesresponsible for agriculture and environment to ensure that measures are taken to addressagricultural pollution

7. Action - To legislate at the appropriate level to limit the presence of phosphates in detergents

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PA 4 Actions - continued

8. Action - To treat hazardous substances and contaminated sludge with the newest and best available technology and to develop and promote remediation measure for hazardous producing or abandoned industrial sites and waste deposits

9. Action - To assure the proper control and progressive substitution of substances that are considered problematic for Danube Region

10. Action - To reduce existing water continuity interruption for fish migration in the Danube River Basin

11. Action - To promote measures to limit water abstraction

12. Action - To strengthen general awareness and facilitate exchange of good practice in integrated water management issues in the Danube Basin among decision-makers at all levels and among the population of the Region

13. Action - To promote measures aimed at reducing knowledge deficits, developing and transferring tools, methods and guidelines concerning the safeguarding of drinking water supply

14. Action - To further strengthen Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Maritime Spatial Planning(MSP) practices on the Western shores of the Black Sea

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PA 5 Actions

1. To develop and adopt one single overarching floods management plan at basin level or a set of flood risk management plans coordinated at the level of the international river basin

2. To support wetland and floodplain restoration as an effective mean of enhancing flood protection, and more generally to analyse and identify the best response to flood risk (including “green infrastructure”)

3. To extend the coverage of the European Floods Alert System (EFAS) system to the whole Danube river basin, to step up preparedness efforts at regional level (including better knowledge of each other's national systems)

4. To strengthen operational cooperation among the emergency response authorities in the Danube countries and to improve the interoperability of the available assets

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PA 5 Actions - continued

5. To continuously update the existing database of accident risk spots (ARS Inventory), contaminated sites and sites used for the storage of dangerous substances

6. To develop rapid response procedures and plans in case of industrial accidental river pollution

7. Anticipate regional and local impacts of climate change through research

8. To develop spatial planning and construction activities in the context of climate change and increased threats of floods

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The Role of the Steering GroupTo break each action down into operational steps

To identify responsible bodies and setting deadlines

Complement with relevant and by supporting projects

New projects may also be discussed to advance the actions in the Action Plan

The Role of Priority Area CoordinatorsTo make the Strategy operational

• committed, proactive and effective coordinators

Work in close contact with the Commission stakeholders

Organise the meetings of the Steering Group

▪ to agree on work programme for the Steering Group

(schedule of meetings, arrangements for decision-taking)

▪ discuss the targets set out in the Communication from the EU Commission

Implementing the Strategy

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• Transnational approach:joint management of shared challenges to national and EU borders

• Partnership:equal cooperation between Member States and non-EU membersPriority Areas are governed by Steering Groups – All DRB countriesSteering Groups are coordinated by two countries in partnership

• Multi-level approach:subsidiary and all relevant authorities and stakeholders involvement and participation


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The whole process is project based.

How projects are initiated:

o by the Priority Area Steering Group– road maps + involvement of ICPDR and sub-basin organisations(PA4 road maps: http://www.danubewaterquality.eu/uploads/mod_files/Road-maps_of_PA4_2012_11.pdf)

(PA5 road maps: http://www.danubeenvironmentalrisks.eu/files/directory/77)

o by individual Danube Region countries• State• Private sector

Role of Priority Area Steering Group in selecting and promoting DRS related projects


http://www.danubewaterquality.eu/uploads/mod_files/Road-maps_of_PA4_2012_11.pdf

http://www.danubeenvironmentalrisks.eu/files/directory/77

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Danube Strategy Letter of Recommendation

How to get DS Letter of Recommendation for a project idea / proposal?

Submit the project idea to Priority Area Coordinator

– Use of a template for applicationTo get DS Letter of Recommendation for a project idea:

• The proposal should be in line with the main objective(s) of the project should fit to the Danube Strategy Pillars/Priority Areas/Actions.

• It should represent added value(s) to the Danube Strategy• It should not be in conflict with others or cause disadvantage for others• Should have transboundary character or effects• Should have future dimension• It can be financed (not only feasible technically)

• It should be well prepared (well written content description; project leader identified; partners identified; budget estimated realistically)

Project proposals with DS Letter of Recommendation submitted to any funding sources should get extra points in the final evaluation process

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Projects can be financed from different sources, i.e. EU sources:

– Structural and Cohesion Funds;– IPA (Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance);– ENI (European Neighbourhood Instrument)– Interreg programmes

– Transboundary; Transnational; Interregional– Central Europe programme

– Sectorial programmes (HORIZON2020; ERASMUS +; LIFE; CEF – Connecting Europe Facility)

International founding organisations- EIB, EBRD, World Bank, etc.

National, regional, local sources

Private sources


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your work on saving our Planet for the next generation!

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