CARDS Priority Environmental Investment Programme for South Eastern Europe (PEIP)

Outputs The PEIP has produced the following outputs to date: Current: 2007-2009 Between 2003 and 2005 Between 2002 and 2003 Documents Events 2007- 2009 (Current Period) 4th Regional Meeting – November 2007, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming) National Workshops in Croatia and former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, early 2008 (forthcoming) Updated Lists of Priority Projects from the previous period (forthcoming) Lists of New Priority Projects (forthcoming) 2003- 2005 During the second period, comprehensive guidance materials were developed to provide assistance to decision makers on national investment planning, local project proponents for project preparation, and to the donor community for designing financial assistance to the SEE region. Institutional Strengthening: Regional workshops on environmental investment project development in the air, water and waste sectors; Regional workshops on tariffs and economic instruments needed for development of bankable environmental investment projects; Regional meeting for SEE decision makers and the donor community. Technical Assistance: Guidebook on options for financing environmental investment projects in SEE and a donor profile to assist project proponents seeking finance; Study on the status of environmental investment planning, which provides an overview for decision makers in the SEE region, and for donors on the process of transposing key investment-heavy EU directives; Extended database of Critical Locations, screened against the requirements of selected key investment-heavy EU directives, provides a regional overview of sites not complying with EU requirements; Formulation of 33 strategies for pilot locations in water, air and waste sectors in line with key investment-heavy EU Directives in order to assist the 33 pilot locations in acquiring donor finance; Study on the use, enforcement and design of tariffs to assist project proponents in developing bankable environmental investment projects; Updated list of priority environmental investment projects, based on PEIP 2003 projects. The outcomes of the second period are presented in the 2005 Publication. 2002- 2003 Identifying regional priority environmental sectors, with pressure on the environment being the most significant; Creating a database of environmental Critical Locations comprising 144 locations with multiple environmental problems in the SEE; performing analyses of national environmental priorities of SEE countries based on relevance to investment project-related development; Compilation of a List of priority environmental investment projects comprising 79 high-priority projects in the region. The approach to project identification and prioritisation and outcomes of the first phase were approved by the ministries of environment of SEE countries and presented in the 2003 publication: Developing a Priority Environmental Investment Programme for South Eastern Europe.

PEIP Home PEIP 2007-2009 PEIP 2003-2005 PEIP 2002-2003 Outputs PEIP Team Project Pipeline 2003 PEIP Publication 2003 (2.3 MB - PDF) Project Pipeline 2005 PEIP Publication 2005 (2.2 MB- PDF) Pilot Location Strategies Documents Events