NDEP environmental projects COMPLETED UNDER IMPLEMENTATION Loan Grant Total Loan Grant Total million € million € million € million € million € million € St Petersburg SW Wastewater Neva Wastewater Collector Treatment Plant – NIB 96.6 5.8 193.6 Programme – NIB 60 24 563

St Petersburg Flood Kaliningrad Water and Protection Barrier – EBRD 277.5 1 2000 Wastewater Treatment – EBRD 23.5 10 110 Successful project financing in the St Petersburg Northern Kaliningrad District Heating Incinerator – EBRD 58.2 6.35 90.4 Rehabilitation, Phase 1 – EBRD 12 7.3 21.8

Wastewater Treatment Archangelsk Water and Baltic and Barents Seas region in – NIB 5.25 4 23.2 Wastewater – EBRD 10 8.2 25.5

Komi Syktyvkar Water St Petersburg 10 Suburban BARENTS SEA and Wastewater – EBRD 15 6.04 30.2 Wastewater Plants – NEFCO 5 3.75 16 Andreeva Bay Water and Pskov Water and Wastewater – EBRD 10.6 5.18 20.05 Wastewater – EBRD 13 6.5 27.4 Murmansk Novgorod Water and PIU for Poultry Farms in Wastewater – NIB 4 3 23 Leningrad Oblast – NEFCO – 2 3.5 Murmansk Gremikha

Sosnovy Bor Water and Vologda District Heating Gremikha Wastewater – NEFCO 0.75 0.5 3.3 Rehabiliation – EBRD 11.7 2 17.8 Petrozavodsk Water and Archangelsk UNDER PREPARATION Wastewater – NEFCO 11 5 32 Severodvinsk Archangelsk Loan Grant Total Wastewater – NEFCO 0.78 0.39 2.52 million € million € million € Severodvinsk Murmansk Water and Vitebsk Water and Wastewater Wastewater – EBRD 15.4 6 30.1 (Belarus) – EBRD 12.5 2 21.2 Syktyvkar Petrozavodsk Solid Waste – Grodno Water and Wastewater NEFCO 3 1.5 6.5 (Belarus) – NIB 11 2 25.1 Petrozavodsk Petrozavodsk Syktyvkar Kirishi District Heating Brest Water and Wastewater (Belarus) – NIB 10 2 18.4 Rehabilitation – EBRD 10 2.5 15.7 Leningrad Oblast Water and Wastewater – Vologda NEFCO 2.5 1.25 6.55 St Petersburg St Petersburg Vologda Lomonosov District Heating About NDEP Pskov Pskov Rehabilitation – EBRD 10 2.5 15.16 The concept of NDEP was developed by the St Petersburg Solid Waste European Union and during the Finnish Novgorod Management – KfW 12 3.7 18.4 and Swedish Presidencies of the EU and the Novgorod Partnership was set up in 2001. Kaliningrad District Heating Rehabilitation, Phase 2 – EBRD 10 5 22 The NDEP Support Fund, managed by the EBRD, pools funds from donor governments and the EU BALTIC Vitebsk (see table), which are used as grants for priority SEA environmental and nuclear safety projects in the Vitebsk NDEP Support Fund in 2014 Northern Dimension Area. Kaliningrad Grodno Environmental Nuclear For environmental projects NDEP grants are Grodno used to leverage IFI loans from the EBRD, EIB, €44m European Union €40m Brest Brest €60m Russia NEFCO, NIB and KfW. This financing structure France €40m is complemented by national funds and additional Canada €20m bilateral grants. €16m Germany €10m Water and wastewater treatment NDEP works closely with the Northern Dimension €26.2m Sweden €19m €2m Policy, EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea, HELCOM SuccessfulEnergy efficiency and projectdistrict heating upgradefinancing in the and with the Barents Euro-Arctic Council and UK €25.2m Municipal and agricultural solid waste management €10m Denmark €1m other regional organisations. €4.4m €17.9m BalticNuclear safety and Barents Seas region Netherlands €10m For more information contact Belgium €0.5m “Over the past 12 years the NDEP has proved to be a successful mechanism €1m Belarus NDEP, c/o EBRD One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN for implementing concrete investment projects to fulfil the objectives of the €180.6m €166.6m United Kingdom Northern Dimension policy and to reach HELCOM environmental targets.” €347.2 Tel: +44 20 7338 6000 Visit: www.ndep.org Conclusions of the 4th Senior Officials meeting of the Renewed Northern Dimension. Oslo, 8 April 2014 www.eeas.europa.eu/north_dim/ Petersburg Vodokanal St Petersburg NEFCO, NIB, Photos courtesy of EBRD, NDEP project focus Baltic Sea region Barents Sea region

Wastewater Treatment St Petersburg Petrozavodsk – cleaner Petrozavodsk Water in St Petersburg Neva Programme water in Karelia and Wastewater NDEP grants of around €40 million There are 42 acute environmental hot combined with loans from the EBRD, spots in the Barents Sea region which EIB, NEFCO and NIB for a total of have a detrimental impact on the health €220 million have helped to leverage Total of the local population. Petrozavodsk has Total major investments worth over €562.6 million received a €5 million NDEP grant, grants €32 million €863 million to upgrade wastewater from Finland and Sweden and loans treatment in St Petersburg. Additional from the NIB and NEFCO to upgrade grant support came from Sweden, Finland its infrastructure for water and and the EU. The largest investment is wastewater treatment and will soon n NDEP Grant: 4% n NDEP Grant: 16% the Neva Programme which benefits from cease to be a hot spot. NDEP is working n IFI loans: 11% n IFI loans: 34% significant national funds. The Northern with the Barents Euro-Arctic Council on n n Tunnel Collector completed in 2013 was Russian funds: 82% other potential investments. Murmansk, Russian funds: 44% n n a major milestone towards compliance Other grants: 3% Archangelsk and a large number of small Other grants: 6% with the HELCOM standards and the cities in the region require urgent actions objectives of the EU Baltic Sea Strategy. to improve wastewater treatment.

Energy Efficiency Kaliningrad Vologda – better heat supply Vologda District in Kaliningrad District Heating and management Heating Rehabilitation Rehabilitation With additional financial contributions from With NDEP grants of €5.2 million, Vologda Russia, EU and Norway, the International successfully upgraded its wastewater Financial Institutions have launched treatment in 2012. The city is now several energy efficiency projects within modernizing its district heating facilities the NDEP framework. The most advanced Total utilizing a loan from the EBRD loan and Total is the rehabilitation of the district heating €21.8 million grant funds. The NDEP grant of €2 million €17.8 million network in Kaliningrad which will help to is co-financing the demand side measures

save energy, reduce CO2 emissions and to improve heat control in residential provide a reliable heat supply for the buildings. Most of the air pollution in the population. Thanks to NDEP grants and Barents region comes from inefficient n NDEP Grant: 33% n NDEP Grant: 11% the EBRD loan funds, the district heating coal-fired boiler houses – 80 per cent n IFI loans: 55% n IFI loans: 66% company has closed down most of its coal of which were built between 1950s and n Russian funds: 2% n Russian funds: 16% fired boiler houses and is improving the the 1980s. This is also a major source n n demand side measures to reduce gas Other grants: 10% of black carbon pollution which affects Other grants: 7% consumption. the ice cover in the Arctic region.

First wastewater treatment Brest Wastewater NDEP nuclear safety projects in the projects in Belarus Treatment Barents Sea region Rehabilitation NDEP grants of €6 million were signed The NDEP nuclear window projects are entirely grant funded and in 2013 in Minsk to upgrade wastewater currently focus on three areas of operation. The largest grant of treatment plants in Vitebsk, Grodno €53 million is supporting the transportation and decommissioning and Brest. Grants from NDEP, Sweden of the Lepse ship which contains complex spent nuclear fuel (SNF). and Finland provide crucial support for Total Lepse was successfully towed away from Murmansk to Nerpa the EBRD and NIB loans. The objective €18.4 million shipyard in 2012 which has significantly reduced the risks to the is to achieve compliance with HELCOM local population. In Andreeva Bay (Kola Peninsula), NDEP is financing standards and to reduce cross-border safe storage and transportation of SNF. This area contains by far the pollution. Almost half of the territory largest number of SNF assemblies (approximately 22,000) – a legacy of Belarus lies in the Baltic Sea basin of the Russian nuclear submarines now mostly decommissioned. n NDEP Grant: 11% area and its trans-boundary rivers flow In Severodvinsk, the grants are used to pay for the defueling of the n IFI loans: 63% through Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Papa-class submarine reactors. The EBRD works in close cooperation n Belarusian funds: 16% It is expected that similar investments with Rosatom and most of the funds have been fully committed. n will follow for other cities in Belarus. Other grants: 10% The NDEP nuclear safety projects are supported by the Russian budget funds and grants from other bilateral donors.