ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE REGIONAL ACCESSION NETWORK (ECRAN)
Beneficiaries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Republic of Turkey
Project Start Date: 10/2013
Duration: 36 Months
Project Objectives and Results:
The overall objective of the Project is to enhance regional cooperation in the Western Balkans and Turkey in the field of environment in the prospect of accession to the European Union and is to assist the European Commission in providing the Secretariat of the Regional Environmental Network for Accession (RENA).
The results achieved are as follows:
Result 1: Improved regional cooperation between environmental authorities
Result 2: Efficient institutional frameworks and technical arrangements
Result 3: Enhanced public participation in environmental planning
Result 4: Improved transposition and implementation in relation to EU environmental legislation
Result 5: Improved skills in relation to legislation preparation and enforcement
Result 6: Selection of environmental projects and investments, having priority
Result 7: Establishment of experience exchange groups and networks
Result 8: Enhanced cross-border cooperation in relation to environmental policies, legislation and investments
Target Groups:
- In Albania, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Water Administration
- In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations and the Department of Environmental Protection of the Ministry
- In Croatia, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, as well as the Ministry of Regional Development, Forestry and Water Management and the Directorate of Nature Protection within the Ministry of Culture
- In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning
- In Kosovo, the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, as well as the Kosovo Environmental Agency
- In Montenegro, the Ministry for Spatial Planning and Environment (an Environmental Protection Agency has just been established)
- In Serbia, the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
- In Turkey, The Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation
Reference Number: CRIS 2013/024-094 AND ARES (2013)555380