Update on EU MAES Anne Teller DG ENV- Biodiversity Unit

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Update on EU MAESAnne TellerDG ENV-
Biodiversity Unit
Belgian MAES WG Meeting 05/03/13
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1st MAES workshop, 21-22/11/12,

• Objectives
• To inform MS and stakeholders of progress and
  relevance of MAES WG work
• To discuss how MAES can be further supported and
  strengthened at EU and MS level

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Participation

• About 100 participants over 2 days
• Representatives from 20 Member States
  stakeholder groups EC services
• Good balance of technical and policy expertise

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Main conclusions

• MAES is needed and scope is broader than support
  to Target 2
• MAES process needs to be more prominent,
  politically supported and widely communicated
• MAES should help consolidate the implementation
  and streamlining of environmental legislation
• MAES will require access to relevant information
  and knowledge, including from other sectors
• Need for methodological guidance, experience
  sharing, and for a phased and adaptive approach
  (bunch of ecosystems/services to start with)

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What support can EU MS offer to MAES?

• EU
• Methodological support (JRC, EEA, contracts)
• Tools for MS (guides, indicators, BISE)
• Streamlining EU data and knowledge
• EU storyline (policy relevant)
• EU research projects (e.g. OPEN-NESS, OPERA)
• EU high-level scientific advisory board (RTD)
• MS
• MAES national working groups (BE, DE, NL)
• Case-studies (national, regional scale)
• Expertise (champions)
• Access to national data (e.g. Agriculture)
• Strengthening interface with science

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Pilots for 2013 (March ? September)

1. Nature data (Article 17, Standard Data Forms,
   etc.) to assess condition of ecosystems and
   services (Reporting Expert Group)
2. Forest ecosystems (ecosystem services, trade-off)
3. Agro-ecosystems - cropland grassland (access to
   IACS databases, etc.)
4. Freshwater rivers, lakes, wetlands - in
   relation to ecological status
5. Marine environment (MSFD, EU maritime policy)
6. Natural capital accounting (exploratory work)

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• Feedback on MAES thematic pilots (March 2013)

1 Nature 2 Agriculture 3 Forest 4 Freshwater 5 Marine 6 Natural Capital Accounting
EU Lead EEA ENV JRC JRC JRC JRC EEA
MS Lead BG BE SE PT FR FR BG PT
EU members JRC EEA ENV AGRI EEA ENV AGRI ESTAT EEA ENV EEA ENV MARE RTD ENV ESTAT RTD AGRI
MS members EE FI HU LT SK AT DE FR HU SK UK AT BE BG FI FR LT SK AT EE SK UK SK DE EE SK UK
Stakeholders CEEweb ELO FACE ELO FACE WWF WWF Coastwatch WWF
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Objectives of the pilotsProvision of a set of
recommendations by September 2013

1. Application of analytical framework
2. Definition of ecosystems (boundaries)
3. Availability and quality of data at EU MS level
4. Impact of EU legislation/policies on ecosystems
   and their services
5. Approaches to ecosystem services assessment
6. Appropriate scale of mapping and assessment and
   coherence across scales
7. Relation between ecosystem state and services
8. Can policy questions be answered
9. Constraints (data gaps, knowledge gaps, etc.)
10. Options for overcoming these

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Next steps

• Finalisation of Analytical framework, March 2013
• MAES contract workshop 19-20 March 2013
• CGBN 21 March 2013
• ALTER-Net Conference, 15-18 April 2013
• Fifth meeting MAES WG 24 April 2013
• Nature Directors meeting, 2-3 May 2013
• IE Presidency EPBRS Conference, 15-17 May 2013
• MAES-Marine workshop, 19 June 2013 (ENV B2/D2)
• Sixth meeting MAES WG 18 September 2013
• CGBN 19-20 September 2013
• 2nd MAES workshop, October 2013
• First MAES delivery event, 22 May 2014

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