1. Model of cooperation for the preparation of the WBD report Andrej Bibič Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning Republic of Slovenia

2. Introduction
Model of cooperation between institutions depends on the structure of the report. With structure (topics) of the report the reporting institutions are (will be) defined.
Slovenian legislation defines the following responsibilities:
Policy measures, public tenders and requests to other ministries – Ministry for Environment
Permitting (Art. 9) and all reporting arising from permitting – Environmental Agency
Conservation measures (including permitting of projects and plans), state of birds, monitoring – Institute of the RS for Nature Conservation

3. Division of reporting tasks
Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning
Other ministries
Environmental Agency
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4. Slovenian report
Structure of the report will be changed for the most part.
The largest part of new reports will be status of bird populations (until now a minor part).
Slovenian report already includes population sizes (per country and per SPA) and conservation status of bird populations (per SPA).

5. Status of bird populations
Annex to the report included status of bird populations. It was prepared by the Institute of the RS for Nature Conservation. According to our legislation this is the institution for submitting conservation status, state of populations, etc to authorities.
Institute prepared this part of the report in cooperation with several institutions.

6. Status of bird populations
Institute prepared this part of the report in cooperation with:
BirdLife Slovenia,
park administrations,
Slovenian Forestry Service,
expert opinions from: University of Maribor,
National Institute for Biology.

7. Status of bird populations
Involvement of BirdLife and experts required funding (covered by the Ministry).
Who assures funding for collating data on the national level and population assessments on the national level for the new report? BirdLife Slovenia, BirdLife European Programme / Commission, Ministry?
Will the process of collating data and preparation of population assessments on the national level by BirdLife be inclusive or exclusive?

8. Assessment of status
Quality of assessment of status of bird populations depends very much
on monitoring efforts
in previous years.
Questionable status: report 2004 – 1% (N=321)
report % (N=321)

9. Other parts of the report
Research and monitoring efforts
There are two webtools provided by ministry, responsible for research (COBISS and SICRIS) that helped in listing bird research and studies. This part of the report has been prepared by the Institute.
New reporting?
Education, information and communication work
This part of the report has been prepared by the Institute and completed by the Ministry.
There is a danger of “advertisement” for involved organisations and problem of exclusion.

10. New reporting We fully support the good intentions of new reporting:
joining efforts for better results,
focusing on better knowledge and
even better selection of priorities for work in the period following each new report