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Ramsar National Report to COP14 Ramsar National Report to COP14 Section 1: Institutional Information Important note: the responses below will be considered by the Ramsar Secretariat as the definitive list of your focal points, and will be used to update the information it holds. The Secretariat’s current information about your focal points is available at https://www.ramsar.org/search?f%5B0%5D=type%3Aperson#search- contacts Name of Contracting Party The completed National Report must be accompanied by a letter in the name of the Head of Administrative Authority, confirming that this is the Contracting Party’s official submission of its COP14 National Report. It can be attached to this question using the "Manage documents" function (blue symbol below) › PL Administrative Authority letter National Report COP 14 You have attached the following documents to this answer. PL_Administrative_Authority_letter_National_Report_COP_14.pdf Designated Ramsar Administrative Authority Name of Administrative Authority › General Directorate for Environmental Protection You have attached the following Web links/URLs to this answer. GDOŚ Head of Administrative Authority - name and title › Andrzej Szweda-Lewandowski, General Director of Environmental Protection Mailing address › Wawelska Street 52/54, 00-922 Warsaw Telephone/Fax › Tel.: +48 22 369 29 00, fax.: +48 22 369 21 20 Email › [email protected] Designated National Focal Point for Ramsar Convention Matters Name and title › Sylwia Gawrońska Chief expert Mailing address › Wawelska Street 52/54, 00-922 Warsaw Telephone/Fax › Tel. +48 22 369 21 37 Email › [email protected] Designated National Focal Point for Matters Relating to The Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) Name and title › National Focal Point – Wetlands Committee Name of organisation › General Directorate for Environmental Protection Mailing address Ramsar National Report to COP14 [Sylwia Gawronska] Page 1 of 37 › Wawelska Street 52/54, 00-922 Warsaw Telephone/Fax › Tel. +48 22 369 21 37 Email › [email protected] Designated Government National Focal Point for Matters Relating to The Programme on Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness (CEPA) Name and title › National Focal Point Name of organisation › General Directorate for Environmental Protection Mailing address › Wawelska Street 52/54, 00-922 Warsaw Telephone/Fax › Tel. +48 22 369 21 37 Email › [email protected] Ramsar National Report to COP14 [Sylwia Gawronska] Page 2 of 37 Section 2: General summary of national implementation progress and challenges In your country, in the past triennium (i.e., since COP13 reporting) A. What have been the five most successful aspects of implementation of the Convention? 1) › Wetlands Committee establishment and maintainance 2) › Maintaining of the unspoilt ecological status of Ramsar Sites and progress in the designation of the transboundary Ramsar site – Peatlands of Izera River 3) › Increasing awareness of climate change consequences and degradation of biodiversity resulting in the implementation of water management and biodiversity policy 4) › Active educational actions, an increasing number of visitors to the Ramsar Sites, particularly the areas with national park status. Maintaining of the periodic events for the World Wetlands Day 5) › Numerous projects of active conservation and educational and promotional projects in the Ramsar sites and other wetlands, through the financing of the environmental protection through national, EU and foreign funds B. What have been the five greatest difficulties in implementing the Convention? 1) › Gaps in the coherence of the provisions contained in international conventions, EU directives and national law 2) › Imperfections of the spacial planning system, which would protect wetlands from intensified anthropogenic pressure 3) › Conflicts of interest between management of wetlands and their conservation (epecially in context of climate change adaptation and mitigation) 4) › Too low social awareness on the role of wetlands in the environment and in the human life (constituting an impediment in efficient nature protection, in particular on private land, and creates problems with the enforcement of conservation plans and plans of conservation tasks) 5) › Water drainage practices on private lands causing droughts and fires C. What are the five priorities for future implementation of the Convention? 1) › Update national inventory in the wetland in Poland for good serving the policy and financial instruments of wetlands protection 2) › Work toward law protection all peat soil and on financial incentives for wetlands protection 3) › Continuation of the works on the supplementation of the list of Ramsar sites, with the inclusion of the Red List of Ramsar Sites in Poland and types of ecosystems with insufficient representation in the Ramsar Convention (in Poland: peatlands, alluvial meadows) 4) › Intensification of the educational, promotional and informational activities, in particular on the role and value of wetlands (informational trainings and meetings, organisation of meetings with local societies, exhibitions at Ramsar National Report to COP14 [Sylwia Gawronska] Page 3 of 37 local government units, in particular near valuable wetlands) 5) › Intensification of the cooperation between the Administrative Authority, Wetlands Committee, the managing entities and interested Parties in the implementation of the Ramsar Convention D. Do you (AA) have any recommendations concerning priorities for implementation assistance and requirements for such assistance from the Ramsar Secretariat? › no E. Do you (AA) have any recommendations concerning implementation assistance from the Convention’s International Organisation Partners (IOPs)? (including ongoing partnerships and partnerships to develop) › no F. How can national implementation of the Ramsar Convention be better linked with implementation of other multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), especially those in the ‘biodiversity cluster’ (Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), World Heritage Convention (WHC), and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)? › Cooperation and possible undertaking of joint activities should be based on periodic interministerial meetings, allowing for the exchange of experience and undertaking initiatives. Such meetings should take place at least once every six months, with the participation of the entities dealing with widely understood nature protection and the environments of the national and local government administration. G. How is the Ramsar Convention linked with the implementation of water policy/strategy and other strategies in the country (e.g., on sustainable development, energy, extractive industries, poverty reduction, sanitation, food security, biodiversity) and how this could be improved? › National Strategy on Wetlands Protection is needed to link different sectors of economy and policies. The development of national strategies must take into account the role of wetland areas, thus it is indispensable that experts specialized in biology, ecology, hydrology and restoration of wetlands participate in the development of such documentation. The experts shall also participate in the committees controlling the development/updating such strategies. H. According to paragraph 21 of Resolution XIII.18 on Gender and wetlands, please provide a short description about the balance between men and women participating in wetland-related decisions, programmes and research. › Poland leads the policy of equality of gender in wetlands-related decisions, programmes and projects carried out. I. Do you (AA) have any other general comments on the implementation of the Convention? › no J. Please list the names of the organisations which have been consulted on or have contributed to the information provided in this report › Ministry of Infrastructure Ministry of Climate and Environment Ministry Of Agriculture and Rural Development Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Białystok Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Gdańsk Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Kraków Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Lublin Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Łódź Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Olsztyn Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Poznań Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Szczecin Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Wrocław Biebrzański National Park Góry Stołowe National Park Kampinoski National Park Karkonosze National Park Narwiański National Park Poleski National Park Słowiński National Park Tatrzański National Park Ramsar National Report to COP14 [Sylwia Gawronska] Page 4 of 37 Ujście Warty National Park Woliński National Park Stawy Milickie S.A. Forest District Nowy Targ Directorate of the Lower Silesia Landscape Parks General Directorate for Environmental Protection General Directorate of the State Forests State Water Holding Polish Waters National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management Institute of Environmental Protection - National Research Institute Institute of Geodesy and Cartography Institute of Nature Conservation Polish Scientific Academy Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation (IUNG) Institute of Technology and Life Sciences
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