Back 1st Bureau meeting 2025

Documents

Agenda item 1: Opening of the Meeting and Adoption of the Agenda

Agenda item 1.1: Adoption of the Agenda

Agenda item 2: Report from the Secretariat

Agenda item 2.1: Follow up to the Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe on 16-17 May 2023 in Reykjavík, Iceland

- Ad hoc Multidisciplinary Group on the Environment (GME)

Agenda item 2.2: Staff announcements

Agenda item 3: Financing and strategic development of the Bern Convention

Agenda item 3.1: Voluntary contributions received in 2024 and 2025: state of play

  • T-PVS/Inf(2024)08Rev2 - Table of the voluntary contributions received in 2024
  • T-PVS/Inf(2025)18 - Table of the voluntary contributions received in 2025

Agenda item 3.2: Report on the use of the resources from the Special Account of the Bern Convention

Agenda item 3.3: Working Group on overseeing implementation of the Strategic Plan

  • T-PVS(2025)01 – Report of the 3rd meeting of the Working Group overseeing the implementation of the Strategic Plan
  • T-PVS/Inf(2025)05 - Draft questionnaire for the 2025 voluntary national updates on the implementation of the Strategic Plan

Agenda item 3.4: Working Group on exploring mechanisms to guide amendments to the appendices of the Bern Convention

  • T-PVS(2025)03 – Report of the 1st meeting of the Working Groupon exploring mechanisms to guide amendments to the appendices of the Bern Convention

Agenda item 4: Implementation of the Programme of activities and budget for 2025

Agenda item 4.1: European Diploma for Protected Areas

- State of preparation of the 60th anniversary

- Communication campaign

Agenda item 4.2: Emerald Network: Workplan for 2025

Agenda item 4.3: Reporting under Resolution No. 8 (2012) on the conservation status of species and habitats

Agenda item 4.4: Joint meeting with the CMS MIKT on IKB and Group of Experts on the Conservation of Birds

Agenda item 4.5: Follow-up to the decisions of the Standing Committee to downlist the wolf (Canis lupus) from Appendix II to Appendix III of the Convention

Agenda item 4.6: Large Carnivores

Agenda item 4.7: Group of Experts on Amphibians and Reptiles

  • T-PVS/Agenda(2025)11 Draft Agenda of the meeting of the Group of Experts on the Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles

Agenda item 4.8: Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species

  • T-PVS/Agenda(2025)10 Draft Agenda of the meeting of the Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species

Agenda item 5: Monitoring of the implementation of the legal aspects of the Convention (Biennial reporting and Online reporting system)                                                                           

Agenda item 5.1: Online Reporting System

Agenda item 6: Implementation of the Convention: Case-files

Agenda item 6.1: Methodology proposed by the UK for monitoring the implementation of recommendations arising from individual case files

Agenda item 6.2: Open files

  • 2023/03: Switzerland: New wolf culling policy
  • T-PVS/Files(2025)2023-03_gov ‑ Government Report
  • T-PVS/Files(2025)2023-03_comp ‑ Complainant Report

Agenda item 6.3 Possible files

Agenda item 6.4: Complaints on stand-by

  • 2018/01: Ukraine: Presumed threat to Emerald site “Polonina Borzhava” (UA0000263) from wind energy development
  • T-PVS/Files(2025)2018-01_gov ‑ Government Report
  • T-PVS/Files(2025)2018-01_comp ‑ Complainant Report

  • 2018/05: Ukraine: Alleged threats to the Emerald Network sites Skhidnyi Svydovets, Marmaroski ta Chyvchyno-Hryniavski Hory and Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
  • T-PVS/Files(2025)2018-05_gov ‑ Government Report
  • T-PVS/Files(2025)2018-05_comp ‑ Complainant Report

  • 2022/07: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Possible negative impact of mining activities in Trstionica – Gornja Bukovica and Vareš
  • T-PVS/Files(2025)2022-07_gov ‑ Government Report
  • T-PVS/Files(2025) 2022-07_comp ‑ Complainant Report

Agenda item: 6.5 New complaints

Agenda item 6.6: New complaint forms received

- Wolf issues

- Other new complaint forms received

Agenda item 7: Any Other Business

Agenda item 7.1: Dates of the next Bureau meetings

Agenda item 7.2: Presentation of the webpage dedicated to the sturgeons

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Highlights

The work of the Bern Convention contributes to the implementation of the Council of Europe Strategy on the Environment and Action Plan by addressing the triple planetary crisis of pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss through multilateral cooperation.