3rd co-ordination meeting of the 2011 Halting Desertification in Europe Pilot projects, Brussels, 09/11/2012

Participants: ABOT: Maggie Kossida (Seven), representative from Bulgaria; GuaSEEAW: Lara Fernandez (Geosys), Manuel Erena (IMIDA), Juan Antonio Lopez (IMIDA), Manuel Arce (ZETA AMALTEA), Halt-Júcar-Des: Elisa Vargas (EVREN), Jauad El Kharraz (EMWIS); Rest: Jordi Raso (Typsa, consultant to the EC), Dagmar Kaljarikova (EC DG ENV), Jacques Delsalle (EC DG ENV), Agnieszca Romanowicz (EEA).

3^rd co-ordination meeting of the 2011 Halting Desertification in Europe Pilot projects DG Environment, ROOM A, Beaulieu 5, Brussels

Agenda - Friday, 9 November 2012

from 10:00 to 15:30

Est. Timing	Agenda items
10:00 – 10:15	Welcome and introduction – DG ENV D.1 Update on the Blueprint to safeguard European Waters and follow-up
10:15 – 12:00	Presentation of the preliminary results of the 2011 pilot projects Assessment of water balances and optimization based target setting across EU River Basins (ABOT) – Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological protection, Natural Research Council (IT) System of Economic and Environmental Accounts for Water in Guadiana River Basin (GuaSEEAW) – SM Consultores S.L. (ES) Halting desertification in the Jucar River Basin (Halt-Jucar-Des) – EVREN (ES) & EMWIS (FR)
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 – 14:00	Presentation of the results of the service contract contributing to building of water and ecosystem accounts at EU level and the work of European Environment Agency (EEA) related to the water accounts – Jacques DELSALLE (DG ENV) and Agniezska ROMANOVICZ (EEA)
14:00 – 14:45	Comments and discussion
14:45 – 15:00	Next steps
15:00 – 15:10	Coffee break
15:10 – 15:30	Financial and contractual issues – DG ENV SRD.2 Submission of draft Final Reports

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