Session 5 - From EaP GREEN to EU4 Environment, presentation by Bella Nestorova, DG NEAR

1. EU4Environment:
A new regional programme in the
Eastern Partnership framework
Bella Nestorova
Head of Sector, DG NEAR Unit C2
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus & Eastern Partnership
Bella.NESTOROVA@ec.europa.eu
1 December 2017

2. Eastern Partnership:
A Comprehensive Agenda
1. Economic
development and
market opportunities
2. Strengthening
institutions and good
governance
3. Connectivity, energy
efficiency, environment
and climate
4. Mobility and people
to people contacts
4 pillars – 20
deliverables

3. Priority 3 architecture
Deliverable 13:
Transport
connectivity
Extension of TEN-T
core networks
Governance of
transport and logistics
systems
Common Aviation Area
Agreements
National road safety
action plans
Deliverable 14:
Energy supply
EU4Energy - efficiency
and transparency of
energy markets
Update and review of
key priority projects
Moldova-Romania gas
interconnection
Southern Gas Corridor
operational
Deliverable 15:
Energy efficiency,
renewables and
climate change
mitigation
E5P investment grants
for energy efficiency
Sustainable Energy
and Climate Action
Plans
SME support for
sustainable efficiency
Climate policies,
financing, and
emissions MRV
Deliverable 16:
Environment and
climate change
adaptation
Water resources
management
Green economy and
green infrastructure
Better environmental
governance
Climate adaptation
planning

4. Underpinning political decisions
Global
multilateral
agenda
UN 2030 Sustainable
Development Goals
(2015)
Paris Agreement on
Climate Change (2015)
EU global
cooperation
A Global Strategy for
the European Union's
Foreign and Security
Policy (2016)
Eastern
Partnership:
Regional
dimension
The European
Neighbourhood Policy
(reviewed in 2015)
EaP Ministerial
Declaration on
Environment and Climate
(2016)
Multi-Annual Indicative
Programme
Bilateral
cooperation
Association Agreements
(AAs)/Deep and
Comprehensive Free
Trade Areas (DCFTAs)
with Ukraine, Georgia
and Moldova
Partnership
Priorities/revised AAs
and new Single Support
Frameworks

5. EU4Environment: General data
• EU-funded action: contribution of 19.0 million EUR
• Goal: Help the partner countries preserve natural
capital and increase people's well-being
• Implementation gradually starting in 2018
• Implemented by international organisations
• Builds on several previous programmes
• Legal basis: Commission Implementing Decision
C(2017)7963 of 27 November 2017
• Detailed scoping to start in December 2017

6. Specific objectives
1. Greener decision-making:
Further align knowledge, decision-making, and stakeholder interaction
mechanisms with environmental imperatives and make political
leaders and civil servants aware and supportive of green growth
2. Circular economy and new growth opportunities:
Scale-up public and private action on circular economy and sustainable
production and lifestyles
3. An environmental level playing field:
Improve incentives and governance mechanisms
4. Ecosystem services and livelihoods:
Boost resilience through the preservation of ecosystem services and
extension of green infrastructure
5. Knowledge sharing and coordination:
Facilitate regional knowledge sharing and coordination

7. Context for formulating the Action
• Demand from governments and civil society
organisations alike
• Need for continuity in supporting reforms started
previously
• Environmental action is visible and benefits citizens
• Growing recognition of greener growth as a significant
contributor to competitiveness, resilience, and for a
level playing filed
• Narrow window of opportunity for action: imperative to
act now

8. EU4Environment:
Environmental
Wealth for All