Invasive Alien Species Working Group 2 – Early Warning and Rapid Response Working method 3 February 2011

Rationale Working Group Invasive Alien Species Now three groups: Contributed to 2008 Communication Towards an EU Strategy on Invasive Alien Species Now three groups: Working Group 1 - Prevention Working Group 2 - Early Warning and Rapid Response Working Group 3 - Eradication, Control, Restoration Each of the three Working Groups will meet twice

Timetable Working Group Meeting 1 Meeting 2 WG 1 Prevention 8 December 2010 11 May 2011 WG 2 Early Warning, Rapid Response 3 February 2011 26 May 2011 WG 3 Eradication, Control, Restoration 30 March 2011 30 June 2011

Tasks and output expected Working Groups’ role The role of the Working Group members: to provide advise and expertise to the Commission to formulate opinions and recommendations Output: report with recommendations report to be publicly available on CIRCA

Working method First meeting Creation of tasks: Commission proposes tasks to be refined and adjusted during the first meeting Agreement on working method Identification of task leaders for each task and potential back-up task leaders Discussion on substance: Open questions and issues to be addressed

Working method Steps after initial meeting Work to be split in tasks dedicated to each topic Task leader prepares first draft document: Commission upload first draft on CIRCA in relevant task subfolder WG members provide feedback: Commission upload documents in “comments” subfolder under each task Task leader refines document: Commission upload second draft in relevant task subfolder WG can provide further comments if necessary This version now ready to be discussed at second meeting

Working method The task leader role Task leader leads the work and coordinates the process two rounds of consultations Back-up task leaders to be identified: to support task leader and complement his/her expertise to substitute the task leader if needed if substitution needed, please notify Commission, which will then reassign responsibility to back up task leader

Working method Second meeting Draft tasks report presented by the task leaders to the WG The recommendations will be compiled into one coherent Working Group report unresolved issues identified and discussed Endorsement of the final report: Report uploaded in the public folder of CIRCA

Timetable and delivery deadlines Step WG1 WG2 WG3 First meeting 8 December 2010 3 February 2011 30 March 2011 First draft 11 February 2011 25 March 2011 6 May 2011 WG comments 28 February 2011 8 April 2011 20 May 2011 Consolidated version 18 March 2011 10 June 2011 Second meeting 11 May 2011 26 May 2011 30 June 2011

WG Work in progress Restricted access with sign in needed WG 1 Prevention WG 2 Early Warning and Rapid Response Prevention WG 3 Eradication, Control, Restoration Task 1 Task … Comments IAS CIRCA page General public information - public access folder WG 2 Early Warning and Rapid response

Task 1 Task … Comments WG Work in progress WG 1 Prevention Restricted access with sign in needed WG 1 Prevention WG 2 Early Warning and Rapid Response WG 3 Eradication, Control, Restoration Task 1 Task … Comments

Scoping document Structure of the tasks Task 1 – EU IAS Data Centre Task 2 – Surveillance, inspection, monitoring Task 3 – Notification, Early Warning and Rapid Response Task 4 – Financing Task 5 – Communication and Awareness

IT arrangements CIRCA link: http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/ias/home Please sign in and create your user profile. Instructions can be found: http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/ida/ircforum/library?l=/training_package/overviewsbrochuresfaq/circa_basic_guidepdf_1/_EN_1.0_&a=d Commission will give you access to the Work in progress folder One problem you might encounter: Note: there are problem(s) with the data you entered: User ‘xxx' of the domain 'cec' has the email address ‘xxx@xxx.org' which is equivalent to the given email address(‘xxx@xxx.org') Attribute 'URL address' is probably not valid. Please go back and correct the problem or cancel the operation. 13

IT arrangements CIRCA link: http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/ias/home Please sign in and create your user profile. Instructions can be found: http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/ida/ircforum/library?l=/training_package/overviewsbrochuresfaq/circa_basic_guidepdf_1/_EN_1.0_&a=d Commission will give you access to the Work in progress folder Please send all documents prepared to: ENV-BIODIVERSITY@ec.europa.eu Please indicated in the subject line: WG number and Task number For more information: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasivealien/index_en.htm