Kick-off meeting of the 2013 Halting Desertification in Europe Pilot projects, Brussels, 05-02-2014

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

DIRECTORATE-GENERAL

ENVIRONMENT

Directorate C - Quality of Life, Water & Air

ENV.C.1 - Water

Kick-off meeting of the 2013 Halting Desertification in Europe Pilot projects
DG Environment, ROOM C, Beaulieu 5, Brussels

10:00 – 10:10

Welcome and introduction

• Tour de table

DG ENV C.1

10:10 – 10:40

Presentation of the work on water accounts at EU level, including the work of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Ecofys

DG ENV C.1

EEA

Ecofys

10:40 – 11:00

Comments and discussion

11:00 – 11:30

Lessons learnt from the 2011 pilot projects

• System of Economic and Environmental Accounts for Water in Guadiana River Basin (GuaSEEAW)
• Halting desertification in the Jucar River Basin (Halt-Jucar-Des)
• Assessment of water balances and optimization based target setting across EU River Basins (ABOT)

• SM Consultores S.L. (ES)

• EVREN (ES)

• Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological protection, Natural Research Council (IT) (tbc)

11:30 – 12:00

Comments and discussion

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00

Presentations of the 2013 pilot projects

• New Developments in Water Accounts Implementation in Guadiana River Basin
• Duero River Basin: Water resources, water accounts and target sustainability indices
• System of Water Accounting in the Guadalquivir River Basin
• Pilot Arno Water accounts (PAWA)

• GEODIM

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
• Universidad de Córdoba

• ISPRA

14:00 – 14:30

Comments and discussion

14:30 – 14:45

Coffee break

14:45 – 15:30

Presentations of the 2013 pilot projects

• Pilot project on water balances in the Tagus River Basin (PROTAGUS)
• Accounting System for the Segura River and Transfers (ASSET)
• Water accounting in a multi-catchment district (WAMCD)

• EVREN

• UPCT

• INTECSA

15:30 – 16:00

Comments and discussion

16:00 – 16:15

Presentation of reporting requirements ( financial, technical, timesheets)

DG ENV SRD2

16:15

Conclusions and Next steps

DG ENV C.1