1. Invasive Alien Species
Working Group 2 – Early Warning and Rapid Response
Working method
3 February 2011

2. Rationale Working Group Invasive Alien Species Now three groups:
Contributed to 2008 Communication Towards an EU Strategy on Invasive Alien Species
Now three groups:
Working Group 1 - Prevention
Working Group 2 - Early Warning and Rapid Response
Working Group 3 - Eradication, Control, Restoration
Each of the three Working Groups will meet twice

3. Timetable Working Group Meeting 1 Meeting 2 WG 1 Prevention
8 December 2010
11 May 2011
WG 2
Early Warning, Rapid Response
3 February 2011
26 May 2011
WG 3
Eradication, Control, Restoration
30 March 2011
30 June 2011

4. Tasks and output expected
Working Groups’ role
The role of the Working Group members:
to provide advise and expertise to the Commission
to formulate opinions and recommendations
Output:
report with recommendations
report to be publicly available on CIRCA

5. Working method First meeting Creation of tasks:
Commission proposes tasks to be refined and adjusted during the first meeting
Agreement on working method
Identification of task leaders for each task and potential back-up task leaders
Discussion on substance:
Open questions and issues to be addressed

6. Working method Steps after initial meeting
Work to be split in tasks dedicated to each topic
Task leader prepares first draft document:
Commission upload first draft on CIRCA in relevant task subfolder
WG members provide feedback:
Commission upload documents in “comments” subfolder under each task
Task leader refines document:
Commission upload second draft in relevant task subfolder
WG can provide further comments if necessary
This version now ready to be discussed at second meeting

7. Working method The task leader role
Task leader leads the work and coordinates the process
two rounds of consultations
Back-up task leaders to be identified:
to support task leader and complement his/her expertise
to substitute the task leader if needed
if substitution needed, please notify Commission, which will then reassign responsibility to back up task leader

8. Working method Second meeting
Draft tasks report presented by the task leaders to the WG
The recommendations will be compiled into one coherent Working Group report
unresolved issues identified and discussed
Endorsement of the final report:
Report uploaded in the public folder of CIRCA

9. Timetable and delivery deadlines
Step
WG1
WG2
WG3
First meeting
8 December 2010
3 February 2011
30 March 2011
First draft
11 February 2011
25 March 2011
6 May 2011
WG comments
28 February 2011
8 April 2011
20 May 2011
Consolidated version
18 March 2011
10 June 2011
Second meeting
11 May 2011
26 May 2011
30 June 2011

10. WG Work in progress
Restricted access with sign in needed
WG 1 Prevention
WG 2 Early Warning and Rapid Response Prevention
WG 3 Eradication, Control, Restoration
Task 1
Task …
Comments
IAS CIRCA page
General public information - public access folder
WG 2 Early Warning and Rapid response

11. Task 1 Task … Comments WG Work in progress WG 1 Prevention
Restricted access with sign in needed
WG 1 Prevention
WG 2 Early Warning and Rapid Response
WG 3 Eradication, Control, Restoration
Task 1
Task …
Comments

12. Scoping document Structure of the tasks
Task 1 – EU IAS Data Centre
Task 2 – Surveillance, inspection, monitoring
Task 3 – Notification, Early Warning and Rapid Response
Task 4 – Financing
Task 5 – Communication and Awareness

13. IT arrangements
CIRCA link:
Please sign in and create your user profile. Instructions can be found:
Commission will give you access to the Work in progress folder
One problem you might encounter:
Note: there are problem(s) with the data you entered:
User ‘xxx' of the domain 'cec' has the address which is equivalent to the given
Attribute 'URL address' is probably not valid.
Please go back and correct the problem or cancel the operation. 13

14. IT arrangements
CIRCA link:
Please sign in and create your user profile. Instructions can be found:
Commission will give you access to the Work in progress folder
Please send all documents prepared to:
Please indicated in the subject line: WG number and Task number
For more information: