Horizon 2020 and private investors involvement Athens 2223 October 2007

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Horizon 2020 and private investors
involvementAthens 22-23 October 2007

• The point of view of local authorities/municipalit
  ies as beneficiaries
• Joan Parpal
• Medcities network

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Synergy Horizon 2020 Municipalities

• Horizon 2020 programme has potential partners in
  Mediterranean municipalities from non EC
  countries. Cities are main sources of hot spots.
• Local administrations commitment with H2020
  would be relevant for reaching the programme
  objectives in terms of project management and
  political support. The EIB loans is an important
  but not sufficient tool.
• Many Mediterranean municipalities need Horizon
  2020 success for advancing its sustainable
  development and improving its citizens health.
• The capacity building component of Horizon 2020
  should be the tool for building this synergy
  between them.

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Sectorial situation

• Many non-EC countries have nowadays a adequate
  legal, institutional and financial framework to
  invest in urban wastewater systems through
  public-private partnerships. MEDPOL has made a
  guide on sewage-related documents and foresees
  the impulsion of national training courses on
  municipal sewage wastewater save use.
• EC SMAP programme has supported a regional
  project on institutional strengthening and
  capacity building on at national level in
  integrated solid waste management. It has been
  successful at national level and now is time of
  extend its good results at municipal level.
• Industrial air pollution needs a similar project
  on institutional strengthening and capacity
  building.
• For municipalities integration in these dynamics
  Horizon 2020 should utilise the concrete cases
  agreed between BEI and countries through specific
  capacity building projects.

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Mediterranean Cities benefices Medcities
experiences I

• Urban sustainable development
• Appropriate waste water system supposes clean
  water bodies ( sea, rivers, lagoons) and
  beaches, a condition for tourism improvement
• BP Limassol,Tangiers, Sousse. Challenges
  Alexandria, Sfax south coast
• Controlled landfilling prevent aquifers pollution
  that destroy local water resources.
• BP Alexandria, Latakie, Sfax, Sousse, Haifa,
  Zarqa, Aleppo, Gaza. / Challenges. Tripoli,
  Tangier, Tetuan
• City competitiveness for localising global
  events, industries or services increases with
  good urban environment.
• BP Sfax, Alexandria, Tangiers. / Challenges
  Tripoli.
• Urban polluted zones act as barriers for city
  territorial development.
• BP Sfax north coast, Larnaka refinery, Haifa
  north. Challenges Alexandria Lake Maryut, Sfax
  south coast.

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Mediterranean Cities benefices Medcities
experiences II

• Health
• Burning landfills are the main source of dioxin
  and furanes emissions, that are strong
  cancerigens.
• BP Sfax, Sousse. Challenges Tangiers, Tetuan.
• Though traffic is the main cause of air
  pollution, too frequently big industries or
  services emissions are relevant factors of
  morbidity.
• BP Larnaka, Haifa. Challenges Alexandria, Sfax.
• The sewer system looses can be a cause of water
  transmission illness. It is also a cause of
  aquifer pollution.
• BP Tirana, Tripoli, Alexandria. Challenge It is
  general for resource conservation and service
  economy

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Barriers

• Despite countries need competitive towns in
  present global economy, city sustainable
  development is not a priority policy.
• Initiatives of municipalities and city
  stakeholders do not find appropriate support due
  to excess of centralisation.
• Urban public services in the fields of waste,
  waste water and air quality need in many
  countries an institutional and legal development
  to clarify roles, rights and duties of different
  levels of administrations and private partners.
• Municipalities have in many cases not sufficient
  and stable financial resources to guarantee cost
  recovery of service delivery including
  investments pay-back.
• It is usual the weakness of public monitoring of
  environment and pollution control of activities,
  that are needed for good service planning and
  management.

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What capacity building? I

• Capacity building at national and local levels
  should be adapted to national reality. I would
  propose in general
• Solid waste
• Old landfill upgrading.New landfill
  implementation.
• Service management and monitoring.
• Modern tariffs or taxes systems. Cost-recovery.
• Public-private partnership tendering and
  controlling.
• Industrial waste regulations and control.
• Recycling.
• Waste water
• Pollution-pays principle application in taxes and
  tariffs.
• Regulations of inputs in public sewage network.
• Monitoring of impacts on reception bodies.

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What capacity building? II

• Air pollution
• Inventories, monitoring and diagnostics of air
  quality.
• Control of emissions.
• Clean production
• General
• Activities authorisation.
• Activities self-control
• Environment labels. ISO. IMAS

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Final remarks

• Cost recovery is the main condition for a strong
  private investors participation in Horizon 2020
  implementation. Mediterranean countries have in
  general solved this condition in wastewater
  public service through specific taxes or
  tariffs.. Solid waste public services have not
  in general any specific financial resource and
  municipalities have many difficulties to recover
  the cost of an appropriate service. This barrier
  should be solved.
• States and local administration cooperation would
  be effective in capacity building projects.
  Medcities offers its collaboration, mainly in
  solid waste and air pollution projects.