CGBN Co-ordination Group for Biodiversity and Nature 14th meeting – 21/03/13 Agenda item 4 FINANCING BIODIVERSITY AND NATURE - THE NEW MULTIANNUAL FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE

Outline General overview (DOC.4-1) - state of play of negotiations - Financial instruments - Tracking Financing Natura 2000 (DOC.4-2) - Article 8 Habitats Directive - PAFs

State of play of negotiations CAP Cohesion Policy EMFF H2020 External instruments LIFE National perspectives on the state of play of negotiations?

Partnership agreements and programmes CPR CSF Position papers 1/MS Partnership Agreements 1/MS (multifund) Operational Programmes (per instrument) Operations & Projects (by OP) 2012 2013 2014 National perspectives on the process of integrating biodiversity /Natura 2000 issues in the Partnership Agreement and programmes, and on problems encountered?

Financial instruments in next MFF The EU equity and debt platforms - COSME, Horizon 2020, CSF The role of LIFE Biodiversity/Natural Capital Finance Facility views on the potential use of EU financial instruments for biodiversity-related projects to leverage financing from the public and private sectors?

Tracking biodiversity-related expenditure Rationale: effectiveness of EU spending CBD reporting obligations The Commission's proposed approach: CBD preliminary reporting framework Use of rio markers - direct/indirect contributions MS reporting under shared management instruments Feedback on the Commission's proposed approach, and information on the planned approaches for tracking at Member States level

Prioritised Action Frameworks (PAFs) – tool for integrated financing; Article 8 of the Habitats Directive – legal basis for EU co-financing; Conditional on PAFs; PAF as a tool for: strategic planning; identification of priorities; identification of financing sources.

PAF: state of play and follow-up PAFs received from 11 MS (BE Wallonia, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, IE, NL, RO, UK); other expected. Assessment and quality check by Nature Unit: Submission via PermRep; Completeness; Up-to-date; Part F and G – the most important; Level of detail sufficient for the OPs.

PAF: follow-up with EC services B.3 Nature A.3 Cohesion Policy DG REGIO ERDF CF B.1 Agricultural Policy DG AGRI EAFRD D.2 Marine Policy DG MARE EMFF E.3 LIFE Nature DG ENV

Partnership Agreements Operational Programmes PAF: follow-up with MS Position Papers Sent to all the MS Natura 2000 and PAFs (mostly) recognised Partnership Agreements DG REGIO in the lead Negotiations started Operational Programmes For all the major funds Ideally, reference to the PAF

PAF part G – example

Natura 2000 – costs and benefits SWP on financing Natura 2000 – cost 5,8 billion EUR/year; Study on benefits: 200-300 billion EUR/year: Climate change adaptation and mitigation; Water quality; Organic farming; Tourism and recreation, etc. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/financing/docs/ENV-12-018_LR_Final1.pdf

Support for the Member States Contract to improve uptake of funds for Natura 2000: updated guide (2nd half 2013) toolkit (2nd half 2013): check lists on-line communication platform examples of good integration seminars in the MS (2nd half 2013 – 1st half 2014)

For more information, please consult: Contact: Laure.Ledoux@ec;europa.eu Przemyslaw.Oginski@ec.europa.eu For more information, please consult: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/index_en.htm http://biodiversity.europa.eu/ 15 15