02 October 2017
02.10.2017 - The Chief of the Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency, Ilir Morina, participated in the 29th meeting of the European Environment Agency Network (EPA Network), held in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting was attended by senior representatives of Environmental Agencies and other relevant institutions from most European countries, as well as representatives from the European Environment Agency and from the Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission.
In the opening part of this meeting, the current and future environmental priorities of the European Commission and the European Environment Agency and their commitments at the global level were discussed, as referenced by Gilles Gantelet from the Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission, and Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency.
Within the framework of the thematic sessions of the meeting, during the first day there was discussion on environmental sustainability in urban areas, with particular emphasis on references and discussions on issues related to monitoring the state of the environment and air quality in large urban areas. The meeting continued with presentations of the work of the interest groups within the Epa Network, on thematic issues such as: the green and circular economy, environmental legislation, plastic recycling, and Genetically Modified Organisms.
Within the agenda of the meeting for the second day, there were discussions on: the management of environmental data, quality control of data, the use of environmental data, and policies for open data at the national and European level.
Topics discussed also included those on scientific projects in the environmental sector from the Copernicus program and natural ecosystem services.
More broadly, the full report from the 29th EPA meeting