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Draft Agenda T-PVS/Agenda(2025)18e

Meeting Report - T-PVS(2025)16e

 

DRAFT AGENDA:

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

Staff announcements

Agenda item 3: Financing and Strategic Development of the Bern Convention

Agenda item 3.1: Voluntary contributions received in 2025 and use of resources

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

Agenda item 3.2: Working Group on exploring mechanisms to guide amendments to the appendices of the Bern Convention

Agenda item 3.3: Working Group on sustainable financing options

Agenda item 3.4: Working Group on overseeing implementation of the Strategic Plan

Agenda item 3.5: Thematic Groups of Experts and Working Groups under the Bern Convention: state of play 

  • T-PVS/Inf(2025)30 - Overview of the thematic group of experts and working groups set up under the Bern Convention

Agenda item 3.6: Rules of procedure of the Standing Committee and Working Groups 

Agenda item 4:  Implementation of the Programme of Activities and Budget for 2025      

  • Calendar of meetings 2025
  • T-PVS(2024)09   Programme of Activities and budget for 2025

Agenda item 4.1: Meeting of the Group of Experts on Protected Areas and Ecological Networks

Agenda item 4.2: 8th Meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group on Reporting and training course on reporting for non-EU contracting parties 

Agenda item 4.3: Update on the European Diploma for Protected Areas (EDPA)

- Call for specialists

- Award ceremony of the EDPA to Sierra Nevada National Park, Nature Park and Biosphere Reserve

  • T-PVS/DE(2025)07_Report of the Meeting of the Group of Specialists 2025
  • T-PVS/DE(2025)08_Report of the Roundtable of Managers EDPA

Agenda item 4.4: Follow-up to the joint meeting with the CMS MIKT on IKB and Group of Experts on the Conservation of Birds

  • T-PVS(2025)09  Meeting Report of the Group of Experts on the Conservation of Birds

Agenda item 4.5:  Follow-up to the meeting of the Group of Experts on Large Carnivores

  • T-PVS(2025)11e Meeting Report of the Group of Experts on Large Carnivores

Agenda item 4.6: Follow-up to the meeting of the Group of Experts on Amphibians and Reptiles

  • T-PVS(2025)XX  Meeting Report of the Group of Experts on Amphibians and Reptiles

Agenda item 4.7: Follow-up to the meeting of the Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species

  • T-PVS(2025)XX  Meeting Report of the Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species

Agenda item 4.8: Action Plan for the eradication of the Ruddy Duck in Europe: state of play

Agenda item 4.9: Activities on the negative impact of mining on biodiversity

Agenda item 5: 45th Standing Committee Meeting

Agenda item 5.1: Draft Agenda

  • T-PVS/Agenda(2025)21– Preliminary draft agenda

Agenda item 5.2: Programme of activities 2026

  • T-PVS(2025)12 – Preliminary draft programme of activities and budget for 2026

Agenda item 6: Monitoring of the Implementation of the Legal Aspects of the Convention (Biennial Reporting and Online Reporting System)

Agenda item 6.1: Online Reporting System: update    

Agenda item 7: Implementation of the Convention: Case-files

  • T-PVS/Notes(2025)05 – Summary of open and possible case files
  • T-PVS/Notes(2025)06– Summary of complaints on stand-by
  • T-PVS/Notes(2025)07– Summary of new & pending complaints
  • T-PVS/Inf(2025)17– Register of Bern Convention’s case-files

Agenda item 7.1: Options to improve the Complaint System: exchange of views with an expert

Agenda item 7.2: Open Files  

Agenda item 7.3: Possible Files

Agenda item 7.4: Complaints on stand-by

  • 2017/06: Iceland: Possible negative impact on Breiðafjörður Nature Reserve’s authentic birch woods from new road infrastructure
    • Government Report Not Received
    • Complainant Report Not Received
  • 2022/01: Serbia: Alleged habitat destruction in the area of Novi Sad due to proposed infrastructure constructions
  • 2021/08: Georgia: Possible threat to Rioni River from the Namakhvani Hydropower Project
  • 2022/04: Montenegro: Hydropower plant development on Emerald Network site Komarnica (ME000000P)
  • 2023/02: Switzerland: Alleged damage to protected habitats and species due to logging activities in the Belpau Emerald Network site (CH0000028)
  • 2022/07: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Possible negative impact of mining activities in Trstionica – Gornja Bukovica and Vareš

Agenda item 7.5: New (pending) complaints      

Agenda item 7.6: New complaints

  • 2024/03: Serbia: Alleged destruction of the habitat of the little cormorant Microcarbo pygmeus on the Sava River in Belgrade

  • 2024/04: Cyprus: Alleged threat to protected bird species due to drying of settling lagoons in Mia Millia/Haspolat
  • 2024/05: Bosnia & Herzegovina: Alleged threat to habitat and protected species from the 'Upper Horizons' Hydropower Project
  • 2025/01: Serbia: Alleged threat to habitat and protected species by the  construction of the Gradina S4 hydropower plant on the Studenica River
  • 2025/02: France: Alleged damage to the protected species present and their habitats in the context of the project to reopen navigation on the Rhône-Rhine canal
  • 2025/03: Ukraine: Alleged destruction of aquatic habitats and fish in the Emerald Network site - Skhidnyi Svydovets - UA0000259 due to the construction of hydropower plants in the Teresva River basin
  • 2025/04: Ukraine: Alleged habitat destruction in the Osokorky Meadows Reserve due to proposed transportation network constructions

Agenda item 7.7: Follow-up of previous recommendations and case-files

Agenda item 7.8: Follow-up on wolf complaints

Agenda item 7.9: New complaint forms received

Agenda item 8: Communications

Agenda item 8.1: Communications campaign relating to EDPA

Agenda item 8.2: Other communications activities

Agenda item 9: Update from the Department on the Reykjavik Process and the Environment

Agenda item 10: Any Other Business

Agenda item 10.1: Dates of the next Bureau meetings

Agenda item 10.2: Requests for Observer status under the Bern Convention

 

 

Strasbourg 16-18 September 2025
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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.