1. Grasslands
Summary

2. Q1: Common Problems Monitoring Setting objectives
Prioritised action frameworks
Stakeholders
Networks
Twinning demonstration farms
CAP
Training
Outside Natura 2000
Management planning
Resource management

3. Q1: Common Problems - discussion
Abandonment (lack of farmers, animals, financing, other incomes, funding investments, large projects, landscape effects, long terrm)
CAP (“bad” rules, leads to unsuitable management, strong effects short term/locally)
‘Rules’ (traditional food production not legal, animal health rules, archipelago
Lack of green infrastructure (new actors)
Lack of staff and resources
Unsuitable management
Fragmentation/isolation/insufficient size

4. Q2: Information gaps - discussion
How to make plans
Monitoring
Setting objectives
Identifying habitat/ecosystem services
Landscape green infrastructure (new actors)
Networking (experts, practitioners, farmers)
Added values/new markets
How to reduce or handle bureaucracy
Manage habitats
Data sharing

5. Q3: Best practice
Many new examples – will be added in due course to Background document

6. Q4/5: Concrete proposals
Networking (demonstration farms, farmers, experts, managers)
CAP (share current experience, measures, calculations/ cooperate around input to future CAP)
Added values
PAF (share ideas in to 2012)
Plans (good examples, seminar, WS about experience)
Objectives (cooperate around method, setting up national/regional seminars and workshops)
Common understanding of FCS
Monitoring (good examples, ideas, prioritisation)
Staff/Governance
National financing mechanism (share experience)
Green infrastructure/landscape
Training (joint workshops/seminars, share good examples in situ – site visits)

7. Q4/5: Priorities/who
1. CAP: share current experiences (all)/ Input to future CAP (Sweden) Priority 1
2. Management planning: translate good examples (all)/ workshop or seminar on priority subject (??) [Cross Cutting] Priority 5
3. Conservation objectives - FCS (??) [Cross Cutting] Priority 4
4. Monitoring (??) [Cross Cutting]
5. ‘Calibration’ meeting: Article Reporting/FCS (??) [Cross Cutting] Priority 2
6. Training: (All) what are we ‘really good at’ – decide lead on this basis/ use ongoing LIFE projects as basis for inviting foreign experts and discussing issues/ include stakeholders
7. Networking: (All) Priority 3
8. Communication/ Stakeholders (??) Baltic deal, diplomas
9. Added values: (Lithuania) Concrete proposal for Seminar; link to Baltic deal, annual conference in October,– subject for further discussion (markets, product branding, specific issues..)
10. National Financing Mechanism: (All) CAP support, EIB?