EAAP Working Group on AGR EAAP-WG-AGR Report on activities June 2005 to August th Workshop for European National Co-ordinators for the management of farm AGR – Antalya, September 16, 2006

Summary of activities : 1. Participation to the EFABIS programme - European Farm Animal Biodiversity Information System 2. Participation to preparation of the EFABISnet proposal – An integrated network of decentralised country biodiversity and genebank databases Liaisons with FAO and ERFP

November April 2006 : The EFABIS EU funded project - European Farm Animal Biodiversity Information System - to achieve full compatibility between FAO (DAD-IS) and EAAP databases EAAP data bank established in the Institut für Tierzucht und Vererbungsforschung, Hannover FAO released DAD-IS European Farm Animal Biodiversity Information System – EFABIS

Project Management General co-ordination: Secretariat of EAAP, assisted by WG- AGR. Technical project co-ordination: Institut fur Tierzucht, Mariensee Steering Committee: one Representative of each contractor (n. 6), EAAP-WG-AnGR (scientific advisor) Representative of the ERFP project "A study on optimising the implementation of databases on AnGR and the utilisation of their content "

Major objectives included :  Full compatibility between FAO-global and EAAP- European databases  Exchange of data among all levels (national, regional, global databases, synchronisation via internet)  A template to build national AnGR databases, at no licensing costs  An expandable modular system

Major results achieved (1) :  EAAP and FAO databases data content merged in the new FABISnet database (35 species, 14,000 breeds/populations from 181 countries)  FABISnet is a network of country databases (Poland, etc.) together with regional (EAAP, etc.) and global (FAO-DAD- IS) databases. All databases accessible through internet. Automatic data exchange (synchronisation).  A template to build national AnGR databases, at no licensing costs (Web interface can be customised at country level + translation)

Major results achieved (2) :  Hierarchy of the network is reflected by a hierarchy of contents: the standard set of file of the FAO database are also present at regional and national levels. Regional specificities are also present at the country level. Country specificities.  Current status:  Polish database: efabis.izoo.krakow.pl  European database: efabis-eaap.tzv.fal.de  Global database: fao.org/dad-is/  Software freely available under the GNU public license

Major results achieved (3) :  Options for Countries to join FABISnet: 1.Get a login at FAO or EAAP (European countries) site and enter data (official languages) 1.Setup their national Web site – web server connected to internet – configuration 1.Through syncronisation with an upper level, option to download all public data from other countries into their own database.

Major results achieved (4) :  Management support for improved data quality  Outputs

Main objectives: Setup of decentralized national inventories of AGR on the basis of the EFABIS database system, in 12 countries (training, installation, nationalization) Establishment of decentralized national inventories of national gene bank collections, in 10 countries (training, installation, nationalization, organizing data collection and loading) Development of a permanent management structure of the European network of AGR inventories, on the national, European and FAO level Software development (production environment descriptors, geographic distribution, outputs) EFABISnet – An integrated network of decentralised country biodiversity and genebank databases - Council Regulation EC 870/2004

Elements of Governance structure Secretariat of EAAP: General co-ordination FAO: Exploitation Manager, Steering Committee EAAP WG-AGR : External Advisory Board (Steering Committee) ERFP: Officially supported the proposal – Active collaboration and integration to be developed during the programme