AGENDA (updated) Expert Group Greening the European Semester / Environmental Implementation Review 7th meeting of the Expert Group of representatives of the EU Member States' Environment Ministries

Wednesday 25 January 2017

19:15 Informal dinner (own cost) in restaurant Scheltema, Rue des Dominicains, 7 B-1000 Bruxelles, Tel.: +32 2 512 20 84 Dinner speaker: Roland Moreau, Director-General Environment of

Thursday 26 January 2017

Venue: Albert Borschette Conference Centre, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 , meeting room: Room 3.C

09:00 Arrival of participants (welcome coffee) Restricted session (EU Member States and Norway, Commission services, OECD, UNECE, ENCORE, EEA)

09:15 1. Welcome & opening Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea, Director Implementation & Support to Member States, DG ENV, European Commission; co-chair Ion Codescu, Head of Unit Environmental Implementation, DG Environment Adoption of the Agenda; adoption of the Minutes of the 6th Expert Group meeting on 14.09.2016 09:30 2. Environmental Implementation Review (EIR): The next steps The EIR package, consisting of a Communication with a horizontal analysis, an Annex with the suggested actions, and 28 analytical country reports, is expected to be adopted and published early February 2017. Participants will be asked to discuss in a few smaller groups their ideas about organising follow-up actions, including, but not only, the foreseen country dialogues. After one hour, the findings of each group will be presented in the plenary, and will draw some conclusions. Participants are asked to prepare their plans and ideas in advance. [11:45 coffee break] Open session: EU Member States and Norway, Commission services, OECD, UNECE, ENCORE, EEA, IUCN, Green Budget Europe, WWF Europe, European Environmental Bureau, CEE- BankWatch, Business Europe 12:00 4. Information on the new status of the expert group (Semester & EIR) Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea, Director Implementation & Support to Member States, DG ENV, European Commission 12:05 3. Semester and Annual Growth Survey 2017 What are the opportunities the Annual Growth Survey 2017 offers on integrating green issues in the 2017 National Reform programmes? Successful practices on greening the

Semester at national level to be shared?

12:45 -14:00 Lunch break

14:00 5. Greening the Semester & EIR during the Maltese Presidency of the Council Anton Spiteri, Maltese Permanent Re[presentation

14:20 6. The Environmental Implementation Review: State of Play Introduction by the Commission, questions & answers.

14:50 7. The EIR Peer2Peer Tool Information on the launch of the EIR Peer2Peer Tool 15:00 8. Results & follow up 'Make it Work' project: Drafting principles for smart environmental reporting; new topic: innovation Jan Teekens, Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment, the 15:40 9. Update on relevant studies: support for fact-based policy making in the Member States and at EU level Jonathan Parker, studies coordinator Greening the Semester, DG Environment 1. Environmental indicator report 2016 — In support to the monitoring of the 7th Environment Action Programme. Aphrodite Mourelati, European Environment Agency 2. Ongoing study 'Capacity building, programmatic development and communication in the field of environmental taxation and budgetary reform'. Malgorzata Kicia, DG Environment 3. Ongoing study 'Measuring the impacts of the transition to the circular economy'. Valerie Bernard, Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME), European Commission 4. Ongoing study 'Support for developing better country knowledge on public administration and institutional capacity building'. Mina Sloylekova / Florian Hauser, DG Employment 5. Ongoing study 'Linking biodiversity to national economic and social priorities in the EU Member States'.

Konar Mutafoglu, IEEP

16:50 10. AOB; Date next Expert Group meeting (7 September 2017); conclusions

17:00 Closing

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