Event, Date, Place Name, Surname, Position

LIFE Environment

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“ … to contribute to the development of innovative and

integrated techniques and methods, and to the further

development of Community environment policy”

Objective

Article 4 of LIFE Regulation

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LIFE-Environment projects - 1

• Demonstration projects

• Transferability and dissemination

• Clear link with EU policy/legislation

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LIFE-Environment projects - 2

• Around 1,550 projects co-financed since 1992

• Contributing €1,640 million to the development of innovative environmental projects and protection of the environment

• Project duration: usually 1.5 - 3 years

• Total project budget: usually € 1,000,000 - 5,000,000

• Preparatory Action Programme: up to €6,000,000 annually to preparation of projects on selected themes

Event, Date, Place Name, Surname, Position

• Land-use development and planning (319 projects 1992 - 2006)

• Impact of economic activities (487)

• Water management (287)

• Waste management (301)

• Integrated production policy (149)

LIFE-Environment: thematic areas

Proportion of projects by theme (1992 – 2006)

31%

19%

20%10%

20%

Land-use Water

Economic activities Waste

Integrated Product Policy

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• Urban environment

• Air quality and noise abatement

• Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Land-use development and planning

Aim

To promote the integration of environmental and

sustainable development considerations into land-use

development and planning

Fields of action

Event, Date, Place Name, Surname, Position

Impact of economic activities

Aim

To minimise the environmental impacts

of economic activities

Fields of action

• Clean technologies

• Integrated environment management

• Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

• Sustainable tourism

Event, Date, Place Name, Surname, Position

Water management

Aim

To support the protection and improvement

of water resources

Fields of action

• Wastewater treatment

• Water supply – water quality – ground water protection

• Water management at river basin scale

• Diffuse and dispersed pollution sources

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Waste management

Aim

The prevention, reuse, recovery and recycling

of waste of all kinds and sound management of

waste streams

Fields of action

• Packaging and plastics

• Hazardous or problematic waste

• Waste important in volume

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Aim

To reduce the environmental impact of products through an integrated approach to the production, distribution, consumption and handling at the end of lifetime

Fields of action• Eco-design, eco-efficiency, green financial products

• Eco-labelling

Integrated product policy - 2

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• 464 proposals for LIFE-ENV funding

• 50 LIFE-ENV projects selected in…

• 14 countries

• Total investment: €214 million

• EU contribution: €66 million

New projects in 2006

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Projects “expected to generate significant income”

can only be funded at 30% of eligible costs

– Can be actual revenue or reduction of operational costs

– Timescale runs beyond close of project

– Includes project partners

– Beneficiary must match Commission’s contribution

– “Go-NoGo exercise”

Land purchase costs are not eligible

LIFE-Environment:specific provisions

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• After-LIFE communications plan

• Long-term environmental benefits

• Go/No-Go exercise

LIFE-Environment: specific contractual requirements