Brussels, 19/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is organising a seminar on 23 Mai in Brussels on financial perspectives 2007-2013 and funding for Natura 2000, the EU's main tool for helping to deliver on its agreed target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010, indicates a EEB press statement. The press statement points out that, “The Commission and Parliament have identified a total of 21 billion EUR as the sum required to meet the funding needs of Natural 2000” (which in principle has to find a solution on financial perspectives).
Participants include: MEPs Reimer Böge (rapporteur for the temporary commission on financial perspectives) and Margrete Auken, Nicholas Hanley, from DG Environment at the European Commission, Claude Franck, advisor from the Luxembourg ministry of the Environment for the Luxembourg presidency, Antonio Serrano, Spanish Secretary of State for biodiversity, Evelyne Huytebroeck, minister of the Environment from the Brussels-Capital district, Eva Havlinova from the Czech ministry of the Environment, EEA president Ralph Hallo, Stéphanie Lang from the WWF, Clairie Papazoglou and Aniol Esteban from BirdLife International and BirdLife. (Info: pieter.depous@eeb.org , or Tel: 02 289 1306).