Council of Europe

This Emerald Network Biogeographical Seminar for six West Balkan countries, co-organised by the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity of the European Environment Agency and the Council of Europe, will take place in Bar, Montenegro. It follows on from the preparatory seminar which was held in Paris on 26-27 January this year.

The purpose of the meeting is to assess at a biogeographical level the extend to which the candidate Emerald sites proposed by each individual country (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) are sufficient to ensure proper conservation of habitats and species listed respectively in Resolutions 4 (1996) and 6 (1998) of the Bern Convention and to address further needs for site proposals to complete the Emerald network.

This phase is a necessary step before sites can be officially approved as ASCIs by the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention and designated at national level.The seminar will be chaired by Mr Jan Plesnik, Chair of the Bern Convention Standing Committee, while the discussions on each targeted species and habitats will be facilitated by experts from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD).

All documents are available only in English

Documents

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Final Agenda

The Emerald Network: A Network of Areas of Special Conservation Interest for Europe - T-PVS/PA(2011)07E