Reporting
In addition, parties are invited to submit “general reports” on the national implementation of the Convention every four years, on a voluntary basis.
Besides, the Groups of Experts set under the Convention also monitor the implementation of both the Treaty and the Recommendations adopted by the Standing Committee. These concern the conservation status of species or habitats, or specific conservation challenges.
Finally, the Standing Committee may review the implementation of the Convention in a contracting party by analysing legal and policy reports prepared by independent experts.
Useful links and documents
- Scoping Study on the biennial reports, the ORS, and links with other International Acts' reporting mechanisms - T-PVS/Inf(2022)55
- Report of Birdlife on "Derogations from the protection of birds under the EU Birds Directive, the Bern Convention and the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA)” (2020)
- ORS User Guide