Documents

• T-PVS(2024)04 - Meeting report

Agenda item 1.    OPENING OF THE MEETING & ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA

Agenda item 2.    REPORT FROM THE SECRETARIAT

Agenda item 2.1.    Follow up to the Session of the Committee of Ministers of 16-17 May 2024 in relation to the decision on the Reykjavik Process

Agenda item 3.    FINANCING AND STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE BERN CONVENTION

Agenda item 3.1.    Financing of the Bern Convention – state of play

Agenda item 3.2.    Working Group on overseeing implementation of the Strategic Plan for the Bern Convention for the period to 2030

• T-PVS(2024)2 – Meeting report

Agenda item 4.    IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES AND BUDGET FOR 2024

• Calendar of meetings 2024
• T-PVS(2023)21   Programme of Activities and budget for 2024

Agenda item 4.1.    Emerald Network: outcomes of the meeting of the Group of Experts on Protected Areas and Ecological Networks (Vaduz, 17-18 April 2024)

• T-PVS/PA(2024)09 - Meeting report

Agenda item 4.2.    Kresna technical workshop in line with Recommendation No. 212 (2021): “Challenges & opportunities for the conservation of reptiles and large carnivores during linear infrastructure development in South-East Europe” (22-24 April 2024): outcomes

Agenda item 4.3.    5th meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group on Reporting, (30 April 2024): outcomes

• T-PVS/PA(2024)10 - Meeting report

Agenda item 4.4.    2nd meeting of the National Focal Points for the Pan-European Action Plan for the Conservation of Sturgeons (10-11 June 2024): outcomes

• T-PVS/Agenda(2024)06 - Agenda

Agenda item 4.5.    Group of Experts on the Conservation of Birds and IKB (8-11 October 2024): state of preparations

Agenda item 4.6.    Large Carnivores: results of the Transnational exchange platform for the management of large carnivores in the Dinaric-Balkan-Pindos region, Sofia, Bulgaria (11-13 June 2024) 

Agenda item 5.    IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION: CASE-FILES 

• T-PVS/Inf(2024)1 – Register of Bern Convention’s case-files

Agenda item 5.1.    Open files

•     1986/08: Greece: Recommendation No. 9 (1987) on the protection of Caretta Caretta in Laganas bay, Zakynthos

Agenda item 5.2.    Complaints on stand-by 

•     2018/01: Ukraine: Presumed threat to Emerald site “Polonina Borzhava” (UA0000263) from wind energy development
•     2018/05: Ukraine: Alleged threats to the Emerald Network sites Skhidnyi Svydovets, Marmaroski ta Chyvchyno-Hryniavski Hory and Carpathian Biosphere Reserve

Agenda item 5.3.    New complaints

•    2023/02: Switzerland: Alleged damage to protected habitats and species due to logging activities in the Belpau Emerald Network site (CH0000028)
  • T-PVS/Files(2024)38 Complainant Report
•    2024/01: France: Alleged insufficient protection of the Hermann's tortoise (Testudo Hermanni)

Agenda item 5.4.    Consequences of the denunciation by Belarus of the Bern Convention on case-file 2018/06: Belarus: Presumed threats to Emerald Network sites “Olmanskiye bolota” (BY0000012) and “Topila Bog” (BY0000083)

 
6.    CONSULTATION

Agenda item 6.1.    Comments on Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 2273 (2024) – “Towards Council of Europe strategies for healthy seas and oceans to counter the climate crisis”

• T-PVS(2024)03

7.    ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Agenda item 7.1.    Possible synergies on climate crisis between the Bern Convention, the Landscape Convention and EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement: Participation in the 81st Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Correspondents European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA)

Agenda item 7.2     Dates of the Autumn Bureau meeting