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Environment Group

Work Programme 2001

Area of responsibility	Activities	Contact person(s)	Comments	Outputs
Auditing and Sustainability Indicators	Initiative to be taken by Highland Council	Gordon Summers Highland Council, Scotland gordon.summers@highland.gov.uk	Topic of workshop D at Conference 2000. Workshop showed disparaging views of what Sust. Ind. "really are" and the need for continued exchange of experience.
Green purchasing	Preparing initial study of present situation around the North Sea. Contact to be made with all interested parties for initial meeting.	Lars Haukvik Telemark fylkeskommune, Norway lars.haukvik@telemark-f.kommune.no. Lennart Blank WESTMA, Västra Götaland Region lennart.blank@vgregion.se	Has been the topic of two workshops (NSCEG Conf. 1998 and 99), where it raised considerable interest among NSC members.	Application for project support from Interreg IIIB
Sustainable Development in Rural Areas [including agriculture]	Initiative to be taken by Landstinget Halland. Theme among those to be covered by NSCEG Conference 2001?	Landstinget Halland, Sweden jorgen.niemann@lthalland.se	Topic was one of the priority themes of "Political Visioning" workshop at Conf. 2000. Examples of potential activities were cited in Alison McInnes´ report from that workshop.	Applications for project support from Interreg IIIB?
Training (Environmental training for staff and members)	Example of Västra Götaland´s environmental training material and methods will be distributed to those who expressed an interest at Conference 2000.	Per Hörberg, Co-ordinator NSCEG Västra Götaland region, Sweden per.horberg@vgregion.se	Similar information was sent to interested NSC members three years ago. Contacts will now be made with all interested parties to continue discussion about potential for exchange of experience.	Application for project support from Interreg IIIB?

Other activities linked to the Porsgrunn Challenge

Sustainability questionnaire to NSC members	Simple questionnaire to be prepared and distributed to all NSC members, as was done in 1999. Distribution before April 2001, compilation of results before June.	Per Hörberg, Co-ordinator NSCEG Västra Götaland region, Sweden per.horberg@vgregion.se	Consultancy assistance may be needed to perform activity.	Updated knowledge about sustainability work among NSC members. Results to be presented at NSCEG Conference 2001.
List of project proposals	List to be compiled of relevant project ideas presented or conceived at the Conference 2001 and its workshops, as well as coming from previous projects like NORCOAST, Water Cities, TEN and the environmental workshop at the NSC General Assembly.	All members of the PWG and Per Hörberg, Co-ordinator NSCEG Västra Götaland region, Sweden per.horberg@vgregion.se	List will be distributed as widely as possible by the co-ordinator and the members of the PWG in order to facilitate partner finding.	Many applications for project support from Interreg IIIB.

Ongoing activities:

Area of responsibility	Activities	Contact person(s)	Comments	Outputs
Radioactive discharges from Sellafield and other nuclear reprocessing plants	PWG to suggest further action as instructed by NSC Executive Committee.	Sverre Fosse Aust-Agder fylkeskommune sverre.fosse@aa-f.kommune.no	NSCEG Chair to bring the issue to the Executive Committee.
Conference on Sustainable Transports Joint arrangement with the NSC Communications & Transport Group, focusing on how future transports can be made more long term sustainable than today´s transport system.	Contacts with NSCC&TG to define programme and practical arrangements for Conference.	Gordon Summers Highland Council gordon.summers@highland.gov.uk	The NSC Executive Committe has agreed to help finance this event, originally planned to take place in Aarhus, Denmark, in November 2000. Now for practical reasons postponed until 2001.	Conference arranged early 2001
Sustainability and Waste Prevention (former Resource/Waste Minimisation Project)	Preparatory meeting with interested partners was held in March. Project is now being developed for Interreg IIIB application.	Mrs. Coby Hoogkamp Section Environment and Water Province of Fryslan The Netherlands Telephone: +31 58 2925790 E-mail: hoogk790@fryslan.nl	Preparatory meeting was co-financed by NSC Executive Committee	Application for project support from Interreg IIIB
North Sea Agenda 21 Network	Holding a preparatory meeting with partners known to be interested in this project. List of partners provided by co-ordinator Oct. 2000.	Andy Dorin, Highland Council andy.dorin@highland.gov.uk	Preparatory meeting may be co-financed by NSCEG, using funds available to co-ordinator.	Application for project support from Interreg IIIB - or other available EU Programme.
Acidification	Letter sent by NSC to IMO to promote the North Sea as a "Special Area" for less sulphur content in ships´ bunker oil. Further action to be suggested by PWG.	Sverre Fosse Aust-Agder fylkeskommune sverre.fosse@aa-f.kommune.no Per Hörberg, Co-ordinator NSCEG Västra Götaland region, Sweden per.horberg@vgregion.se
Marine Pollution	Letters sent by NSC to EU Env. Ministers to promote EU Directive on Port Reception Facilities for Waste. Further action to be suggested by PWG.	Per Hörberg, Co-ordinator NSCE Västra Götaland region, Sweden per.horberg@vgregion.se	Possible links to ongoing Interreg IIc project "Green Ports"?
Coastal Zone Management	Activities to be suggested by PWG.	Kathy Belpaeme Provincie West-Vlaanderen kathy.belpaeme@west-vlaanderen.be	Highly relevant topic for all NSC members and the focus of much attention and work within the EU - and not least the CPMR.
Water policy	Project proposals to be distributed for partner finding. Examples of project proposals which raised interest at NSCEG Conference 2000: Future Water Management Water Quality Improvement	Hans van Meerendonk Provincie Fryslân, Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland nscenvir@fryslan.nl Per Hörberg, Co-ordinator NSCEG Västra Götaland region, Sweden per.horberg@vgregion.se	Topic generated great interest at NSCEG Conference 2000 and is one of the priorities of Interreg IIIB. Among interesting aspects are "River basin administration" and "Public participation".	Many applications for project support from Interreg IIIB.