Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands Chris Kik, CGN, Wageningen, the Netherlands LEAFY VEGETABLES WP5 Coordination

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands Outline WP5 milestones & deliverables: year 1 & 2 First annual technical and financial report New Leafy Veg contract Dissemination

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands Deliverables Deliverable date WP5 Deliverable description Status CGN Partner responsible Year 1 D27, month 01Start-up project meeting doneP0/Pall D28, month 03 Leafy Veg website is launched on internet and active doneP0 D29, month 06First WP coordinators meeting doneP2/P0 D30, month 11First annual project meeting doneP2/P0 Year 2 D31, month 14First annual progress report doneP0/Pall D32, month 18Second WP coordinators meeting doneP7/P0 D33, month 23Second annual project meeting to be doneP5/P0

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands Milestones Milestone dateMilestone description Status CGN Partner responsi ble Year 1 month 01 Detailed workplan of the project defined at the start -up meeting of the project (time schedules for regeneration, characterisation and evaluation will be established) doneP0/Pall month 01The project website will be developed doneP0 month 5First WP coordinators meeting organised doneP2/P0 month 10 The second project meeting (first annual project meeting) will be organised to discuss the progress and discuss the first annual progress report doneP2/P0

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands Milestones Milestone dateMilestone description Status CGN Partner responsible Year 2 month 13 First annual progress report will be finalised and submitted to the European Commission doneP0/Pall month 17 Second WP coordinators meeting organised doneP7/P0 month 22 Third project meeting (second annual project meeting) will be organised to discuss the progress and discuss the second annual progress report to be doneP2/P0

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands M&D conclusion Milestones and deliverables of WP5 are all met.

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands First annual Leafy Veg progress report Report submitted mid March to EU Technical reporting was relatively easy, financial reporting took considerable time from the partners’ administrations. Comments EU on report by mid April Few comments on technical report, more comments on financial report Reply to EU mid May Expected reimbursement: July-September

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands First annual LV progress report conclusions The financial reporting was for most (all) of us a time consuming business. As a coordinator I expect that this will be less in the coming years (hopefully we learned from it) The technical reporting was OK: relatively easy I am curious about auditing by the EU and especially the amount of detail they will insist upon, as I saw that it sometimes was difficult to trace sums of money presented in the excel files to specific accounts.

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands New LV contract needed Reasons: NGB changed its juridical name into NordGen USOFA (Mihaela Cerne) stopped and their work will be carried out by KIS (Vladimir Meglic), both organizations are established in Ljubjana (Slovenia). 10% budget ceiling is not met for ‘other costs’ item: 55% change, this is due to the fact that a lot of partners decreased this budget item and transferred the budget to personnel costs.

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands New LV contract needed EU has been informed by telephone and in the beginning of April and by mid May all the official papers were sent to the EU.

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands Leafy Veg dissemination An abstract has been sent to the general EUCARPIA symposium for a oral presentation. No reply yet from the organizing committee. Symposium will take place in September ’08. We need to write a text for our external LV website on the basis of the results achieved in the first year. This can be done using our first annual technical report -> CK will take action.

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands Greetings from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan !