1. Point 4 Species Action Plans
Expert Group on the Birds and Habitats Directives NADEG Brussels, 28 & 29 April 2015

2. LIFE Preparatory Project
'Coordinated Efforts for International Species Recovery'
co-ordinating beneficiary: BirdLife International
Associated beneficiaries: Bird protection organisations from DE, UK, SE, NL, ES, LT,PT, FR, EL, Vulture Conservation Foundation & FACE
Co-financer: AEWA
Total budget € (60% EU contribution)

3. Specific actions:
To develop web-based collaborative platform to streamline SAP administration, planning, monitoring & communication ("SAP Tracking Tool")
Revise SAP for White-headed Duck, Velvet Scoter, Dalmatian Pelican, Cinereous Vulture, Bearded Vulture, European Turtle-dove

4. Develop new plan for Yelkouan Shearwater & Monteiro's Storm-petrel
Develop pilot Multi-species action plan for European lowland grassland waders
Oystercatcher, Lapwing, 'Baltic' Dunlin, Ruff, Common Snipe, Eurasian Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Redshank

5. The project foresees strong stakeholder engagement

6. Recent draft AEWA single species action plans
Taiga Bean Goose (comments from PL)
Eurasian Curlew (PT)
Long-tailed Duck (no comments)
EU Raptor Conservation Strategy
New version for comments in near future
-concerning the implementation of the Strategy, do you think a multi-species action plan would be needed (are there sufficient commonalities for this)?

7. Update of the EU action plan for Greater Spotted Eagle