Event details

ECONAT2000 has developed to promote the exchange of best practice and experience for implementing Natura2000 and its interface with economic developments. Econat2000 aim is to enhance trans-boundary and cross sector cooperation by exploring in greater detail: How the ‘legal’, ‘ecological’ and “economic” concepts in the Habitats and Birds Directives are applied in practical cases?

The network members are 4 organisations/institutions drawn from both the nature conservation and economic development sectors.* Rijkswaterstaat , part of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management,

* Natural England, Nature Conservation Agency in England,

* Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz , NLWKN, part of Ministry of Environment of Lower Saxony,

* ATEN, Umbrella organisation grouping together protected area management bodies, mandated by the French Ministry in charge of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Land use planning.

Programme for 2010:

* Dealing with uncertainty - Peterborough (UK) - 9-10/03/2010

* Recreational activity and N2000 sites - Exeter (UK) - 16-18/03/2010

* Defragmentation (blue & green belts) - Utrecht (NL) - 13-15/04/2010

* Compensatory measures implementation - Nimes (FR) - 21-23/04/2010

* Water policy & management & N2000 - Augsburg (DE) - 27-29/04/2010

This workshop: Most of the assessments of projects on Natura 2000 sites lead to compensatory measures (CM). The scope of this peer exchange is to discuss the questions raised by their definition and particularly their implementation.

More information can be found on this website: http://econat.n2000.fr/peer_exchanges/2010.

Information on your national contact can be found here: http://econat.n2000.fr/contacts.

The 2009 meetings gave a particular emphasis on cases regarding :

* Management planning

* Linear / transport infrastructure

* Legal aspects of species protection

* Natura 2000 Marine Protected Areas

* Estuaries