Objective

To support the implementation of the governance aspects (i.e. compliance assurance, public participation, access to justice) of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, with a focus on EU Nature and Biodiversity legislation.

Priorities

• Priority 1: promoting effective public participation and access to justice in nature and biodiversity policy and legislation-related matters amongst the public, NGOs, lawyers, the judiciary, public administrations
• Priority 2: establishing new or, where in place, enhancing existing cross-border, national or regional networks of compliance assurance practitioners or experts
• Priority 3: establishing or, where in place, improving professional qualifications and training to improve public participation, access to justice and compliance with binding EU legal instruments on nature and biodiversity, through promoting, checking and enforcing compliance
• Priority 4: developing and implementing strategies and policies and/or developing and using innovative tools and actions to promote, monitor and enforce compliance with binding EU instruments on nature and biodiversity
• Priority 5: improving relevant information systems operated by public authorities
• Priority 6: improving relevant information systems operated by public authorities

Among financed actions

• Promoting good practices, supporting implementation, organising trainings, educational, academic programmes, etc. to ensure effective compliance assurance, public participation and access to justice in nature and biodiversity policy and legislation-related matters amongst the public
• Maximise the potential of information technology through means such as webinars and massive open online courses to allow distance learning to reach as many practitioners as cost-effectively as possible
• Promoting good practices, preparing guidance documents, organising trainings to ensure using an appropriate mix of administrative law, criminal law and environmental liability for a more effective implementation and enforcement of relevant Union environmental law

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: between 36 and 84 months

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries

• Total budget of the call: 135 739 347 euro
• Total budget of the topic “Nature Governance”: 3 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 1 and 2 million euro
• Co-financing rate: up to 60%