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The
Strategy Guide
the
Clearing-House for the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy
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Organisational
Structure
The Strategy bodies include the Strategy Council, which is the
decision making body consisting of countries and observers, the
Strategy Bureau, which is the executive support to the Council
and consists of a limited number of countries whose task is to
assist the Council and its president, and the Joint Secretariat
from the Council of Europe and UNEP. In addition, there is an
Expert Committee for the Pan European Ecological Network led by
CoE and ECNC, consisting of State members along with expert observers.
Also there is an other European Task Force on Banking, Business
and Biodiversity, with its Secretariat at ECNC. |
Strategy Council
The Council of the Pan-European
Strategy is the decision-making body and is composed of representatives
of all 54 States involved in the "Environment for Europe" process.
Since 1998 it meets every year, and prior to that date every two years.
Under Appendix III
of the Decision of the Strategy Council (STRA-FO(96) 6)
the Council's terms of reference include:
- To devise a policy
to direct Strategy implementation
- To guide, support
and review the implementation, to study and prepare further developments
of the Strategy
- To prepare and
adopt a four-year Action Plan and a two year Work Programme
- To consider, for
the purposes of preparing the action plan and the work programme, the
activities of States, international intergovernmental organizations
and NGOs relevant to the Strategy in order to promote co-ordination
and complementarily between the different activities, including those
carried out in the framework of international conventions
- To disseminate
information about the Strategy and its implementation
- To approve any
report or recommendations to be submitted to the "Environment for
Europe" Ministerial Conference
- To direct work
of the Bureau and consider and, where appropriate, adopt any proposal
submitted to it.
Council
membership:
- Government representatives
- Intergovernmental
representatives
- organisations
- Contact address:
Strategy Council Chair
- Mrs S. Ofstad
Samstag, Norway
Strategy
Bureau
Under decisions of the second Strategy Council meeting (STRA-CO(98) 3)
the new Strategy Bureau was constituted and came into being after the
Aarhus Ministerial Conference.
The Bureau consists
of representation of governments with the support of the Joint Secretariat.
A number of NGOs are represented as observer.
At the PEBLDS Council
in March 2000, it was decided to form an enlarged Bureau composed of the
members of the Bureau plus two representatives of EU member states, two
representatives of central and east European countries, two representatives
of the group of western and other European states, four representatives
of NGOs and members from countries represented on the CBD Bureau and also
party to other relevant conventions.
The current composition
of the Bureau is:
| Bureau members |
| Chair
of the Council |
Mrs
S. Ofstad Samstag, Norway |
| Members |
Ukraine,
Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Andorra, Czech Republic, Albania, Moldova,
Georgia, The
European Commission |
| Ex-officio
members |
Slovenia,
Russian Federation, Belgium |
Joint Secretariat
The Joint Secretariat of the Pan-European Strategy carries out the daily
operations and is composed of the Council of Europe and UNEP.
- Council of Europe
- Natural Heritage Division
Mr Eladio Fernández-Galiano
67075 Strasbourg Cedex
France
Tel.: +33-3-88412259
Fax: +33-3-88413751
E-mail: eladio.fernandez-galiano@coe.int
WWW: www.nature.coe.int
UNEP/ Coordinator of the Joint Secretariat
- Regional Office for Europe
Ms Ivonne Higuero
Chemin des Anémones 15
1219 Châtelaine Geneva
Switzerland
Tel.: +41-22-9178395
Fax: +41-22-9178024
E-mail: roe@unep.ch
WWW: www.unep.ch/roe/
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