Annexes to COM(2023)728 - Monitoring framework for resilient European forests - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2023)728 - Monitoring framework for resilient European forests. |
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| document | COM(2023)728 |
| date | November 22, 2023 |
- Develop guidance on how to interpret the data and derive meaningful statistics from status and change assessments of forest indicators.
- Publish and disseminate the collected data through user-friendly dashboards and clear online visualisations on the Forest Information System for Europe (FISE).
- Develop practical implementation guidance and solutions for conducting assessments on the state and trends of forests.
- Ensure synergies with reported information under the LULUCF regulations.
TA AD 6 Senior Forest Monitoring Data Custodian
Tasks:
- Provide IT technical expertise to develop reporting schemas
- Manage the delivery of the reporting flows listed
- Create reporting format, Reportnet 3 dataflow, QC checks, reference datasets
- Import and export of data in Reportnet 3
- Create a production database with EU datasets of delivered datasets.
- Create standard services on top of EU datasets
- Creation and management of data outputs, e.g., in datahub, discomap etc.
- Creation of technical guidance Documents
- Provide Helpdesk support and training webinars
CA Forest Monitoring Data Analyst
Tasks:
- Develop comprehensive guidance and a field manual that includes reference descriptions of variables, methodologies for data collection (including metrics), guidelines for harmonisation procedures, and reporting formats.
- Create and develop the reporting tool (Reportnet 3) for efficiently collecting and managing spatial and tabular data.
- Establish data quality procedures to ensure each recorded data's precision, accuracy, completeness, and comparability. Set up a quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) documentation system that includes a plan, checklists, notes, calculation sheets, and reports for documenting the QA/QC activities.
- Establish the European forest database, which includes plot-level, tabular, and spatial data for individual countries and European maps. Integrate the database into the European Environment Agency Spatial Data Infrastructure (EEA SDI).
- Develop validation rules for the database, including data type validation, range checks, constraint validation, and checks for missing records. Provide guidelines for transferring data to the centralised database.
- Ensure synergies with reported information under the LULUCF regulations.
- Provide a helpdesk for technical support related to field monitoring, harmonisation, and data reporting processes. Address and fix any bugs or technical issues that may arise.
- Control and support the data flow from countries into Reportnet 3 and the European forest database. Oversee and assist with the uploading of maps from countries into the European forest map repository.
- Develop and maintain products based on Copernicus data and information, providing the required forest indicators of Annex I based on earth observation
CA Soil Data Management and Assessment Expert
Tasks:
- Set up, in synergy and coordination with other relevant systems, an architecture to exchange data flows through Reportnet and EIONET to collect, process, validate and analyse data reported by MS every 6 years:
- Data and results of the monitoring
- Trend analysis of soil health descriptors and indicators
- Summary and progress on implementation of SSM and restoration
- Data in national registers for contaminated sites
- Assist the Commission with the evaluation of the implementation of the Soil Health Law 8 years after its entry into force
TA Senior Soil Monitoring Expert
Tasks:
- Support development of an overview at EU level of national registries on contaminated sites and reporting from Member States, overview of defined terminologies, criteria to define potentially contaminated sites and lists of potentially contaminating risk activities, national triggers and rules for soil investigation, reporting specifications and schema
- Provide a regularly updated overview of risk assessment methodologies implemented at national level (including screening values), support development of guidance on risk assessment methods and support Member States to apply the guidance as relevant
- Support the development of an overview at EU level of MS targets and indicators on land take and sealing (every 2 year), and publish and disseminate policy-relevant data through dashboards and clear online visualisations of the data
- Provide support to MS to implement indicators compliant with descriptions and requirements in the Soil Health Law, to implement the land take hierarchy and keep track of the methodologies applies in MS
- Develop guidance for using and interpreting Copernicus data and deriving statistics from status and change assessments
- Develop guidance for practical solutions towards the net land take target setting, actions for achieving it and related monitoring
Title 2: Infrastructure (mainly IT systems/databases developement) – IT solutions to be developed by the additional soil TA and CA in Title 1
The Title 3 costs comprise: IT developments, running costs of reporting systems, development and production of new indicators, orgganisation and follow-up of technical meetings, development of guidance documentation, and support contracts for forest indicators and assessment and contaminated soil and land use expertise
| □ TOTAL operational appropriations | Commitments | (4) | 1,588 | 1,945 | 1,914 | 5,447 | ||
| Payments | (5) | 1,588 | 1,945 | 1,914 | 5,447 | |||
| □ TOTAL appropriations of an administrative nature financed from the envelope for specific programmes | (6) | |||||||
| TOTAL appropriations under HEADING 3 ENV+EEA of the multiannual financial framework | Commitments | =4+ 6 | 1,588 | 1,945 | 1,914 | 5,447 | ||
| Payments | =5+ 6 | 1,588 | 1,945 | 1,914 | 5,447 |
| □ TOTAL operational appropriations (all operational headings) | Commitments | (4) | ||||||
| Payments | (5) | |||||||
| TOTAL appropriations of an administrative nature financed from the envelope for specific programmes (all operational headings) | (6) | |||||||
| TOTAL appropriations under HEADINGS 1 to 6 of the multiannual financial framework | Commitments | =4+ 6 | 1,588 | 1,945 | 1,914 | 5,447 | ||
| Payments | =5+ 6 | 1,588 | 1,945 | 1,914 | 5,447 |
| Heading of multiannual financial framework | 7 | ‘Administrative expenditure’ |
This section should be filled in using the 'budget data of an administrative nature' to be firstly introduced in the Annex to the Legislative Financial Statement (Annex 5 to the Commission decision on the internal rules for the implementation of the Commission section of the general budget of the European Union), which is uploaded to DECIDE for interservice consultation purposes.
EUR million (to three decimal places)
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 and beyond | TOTAL | ||||
| DG: ENV | ||||||||
| □ Human resources | 0,264 | 0,435 | 0,435 | 0,435 | 1,569 | |||
| □ Other administrative expenditure | 0,037 | 0,064 | 0,064 | 0,064 | 0,229 | |||
| TOTAL DG ENV | Appropriations | 0,301 | 0,499 | 0,499 | 0,499 | 1,798 |
The other administrative expenditure accounts for expert group meetings, missions and other costs associated with this personnel.
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 and beyond | TOTAL | ||||
| DG: CLIMA | ||||||||
| □ Human resources | 0,171 | 0,171 | 0,171 | 0,171 | 0,684 | |||
| □ Other administrative expenditure | ||||||||
| TOTAL DG CLIMA | Appropriations | 0,171 | 0,171 | 0,171 | 0,171 | 0,684 |
| TOTAL appropriations under HEADING 7 of the multiannual financial framework | (Total commitments = Total payments) | 0,472 | 0,670 | 0,670 | 0,670 | 2,482 |
EUR million (to three decimal places)
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 and beyond | TOTAL | ||||
| TOTAL appropriations under HEADINGS 1 to 7 of the multiannual financial framework | Commitments | 0,472 | 2,258 | 2,615 | 2,584 | 7,959 | ||
| Payments | 0,472 | 2,258 | 2,615 | 2,584 | 7,959 |
3.2.2. Estimated output funded with operational appropriations
Commitment appropriations in EUR million (to three decimal places)
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3.2.3. Summary of estimated impact on EEA’s human resources and administrative appropriations in the Commission
1.1.1.1. Estimated impact on EEA’s human resources
- The proposal/initiative does not require the use of appropriations of an administrative nature
- The proposal/initiative requires the use of appropriations of an administrative nature, as explained below:
EUR million (to three decimal places)
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 and beyond | TOTAL |
| Temporary agents (AD Grades) | 0,346 | 0,705 | 0,719 | 1,770 | ||
| Temporary agents (AST grades) | ||||||
| Contract staff | 0,123 | 0,250 | 0,255 | 0,628 | ||
| Seconded National Experts |
| TOTAL | 0,468 | 0,955 | 0,974 | 2,398 |
Staff requirements (FTE):
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 and beyond | TOTAL |
| Temporary agents (AD Grades) | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Temporary agents (AST grades) | ||||||
| Contract staff | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Seconded National Experts |
| TOTAL | 5 | 5 | 5 |
1.1.1.2. Estimated requirements on administrative appropriations in the Commission
- The proposal/initiative does not require the use of appropriations of an administrative nature
- The proposal/initiative requires the use of appropriations of an administrative nature, as explained below:
EUR million (to three decimal places)
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | TOTAL |
| HEADING 7 of the multiannual financial framework | ||||||
| Human resources | 0,435 | 0,606 | 0,606 | 0,606 | 2,253 | |
| Other administrative expenditure | 0,037 | 0,064 | 0,064 | 0,064 | 0,229 | |
| Subtotal HEADING 7 of the multiannual financial framework | 0,472 | 0,670 | 0,670 | 0,670 | 2,482 |
The cost per FTE (AD/AST) is calculated at EUR 171 000/y. The “other administrative expenditure” accounts for Committee and expert group meetings, missions and other costs associated with this personnel.
| Outside HEADING 730 of the multiannual financial framework | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | TOTAL | |
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| Other expenditure of an administrative nature | ||||||
| Subtotal outside HEADING 7 of the multiannual financial framework |
| TOTAL | 0,472 | 0,670 | 0,670 | 0,670 | 2,482 |
The appropriations required for human resources and other expenditure of an administrative nature will be met by appropriations from the DG that are already assigned to management of the action and/or have been redeployed within the DG, together if necessary with any additional allocation which may be granted to the managing DG under the annual allocation procedure and in the light of budgetary constraints.
3.2.3.3. Estimated requirements of human resources in the Commission
- The proposal/initiative does not require the use of human resources.
- The proposal/initiative requires the use of human resources, as explained below:
Estimate to be expressed in full time equivalent units
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 and beyond | |||
| 20 01 02 01 (Headquarters and Commission’s Representation Offices) - DG ENV | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 20 01 02 01 (Headquarters and Commission’s Representation Offices) – DG CLIMA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 20 01 02 01 (Headquarters and Commission’s Representation Offices) - JRC | |||||||
| 20 01 02 01 (Headquarters and Commission’s Representation Offices) – DG DEFIS | |||||||
| 20 01 02 03 (Delegations) | |||||||
| 01 01 01 01 (Indirect research) | |||||||
| 01 01 01 11 (Direct research) | |||||||
| Other budget lines (specify) | |||||||
| 20 02 01 (AC, END, INT from the ‘global envelope’) – DG ENV | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 20 02 03 (AC, AL, END, INT and JPD in the delegations) | |||||||
| XX 01 xx yy zz 9 | - at Headquarters | ||||||
| - in Delegations | |||||||
| 01 01 01 02 (AC, END, INT - Indirect research) | |||||||
| 01 01 01 12 (AC, END, INT - Direct research) | |||||||
| Other budget lines (specify) | |||||||
| TOTAL | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
The human resources required will be met by staff from the DG who are already assigned to management of the action and/or have been redeployed within the DG, together if necessary with any additional allocation which may be granted to the managing DG under the annual allocation procedure and in the light of budgetary constraints.
Description of tasks to be carried out:
| Officials and temporary staff ENV | Coordinate with relevant services and provide support to Member States in the implementation of the initiative, in particular in the field of: sampling, data, methodology, assessment, monitoring and analysis Sustain a dialogue on forest monitoring with Member States and their competent authorities including in the framework of relevant expert groups and committees; report to EP and Council Prepare and coordinate the adoption of Commission implementing and delegated acts provided for in the FML Prepare and lead the monitoring and verification of the implementation of the law by Member States Manage the agreement on Forest Science Partnership and Copernicus Services with JRC and Copernicus Services and FISE with EEA, upgraded to be consistent with FML requirement |
| External staff | General support for implementing the FML (for developing technical guidance/suppprting MS) |
| Officials and temporary staff CLIMA | Coordinate with relevant services and provide support to Member States in the implementation of the initiative, in particular in the field of: sampling, data, methodology, assessment, monitoring and analysis Sustain a dialogue on forest monitoring with Member States and their competent authorities including in the framework of relevant expert groups and committees; report to EP and Council Prepare and coordinate the adoption of Commission implementing and delegated acts provided for in the FML |
| Officials and temporary staff JRC | Operate the European Forest Science Partnership, develop Earth Observation-based monitoring tools, support the upgrade of FISE, facilitate harmonization of methodologies. |
3.2.4. Compatibility with the current multiannual financial framework
The proposal/initiative:
- can be fully financed through redeployment within the relevant heading of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).
The additional tasks the Commission has to assume, require an additional needs for resources as regards the amount of the Union’s contribution and the establishment plan posts of the European Environmental Agency. The increase of the EU contribution to the EEA in relation to the forest monitoring tasks will be offset half/half by the budget lines 09.0201 – LIFE Nature & Biodiversity and 09.0203 – LIFE Climate. The increase of the EU contribution to the EEA in relation to the soil monitoring tasks will be offset from the budget line 09.0201 – LIFE Nature & Biodiversity.The costs foreseen under the budget line 09 02 01 will be borne by the LIFE programme and will be planned under the annual management plan exercises of DG ENV. The human resources required shall be preferably met by an additional allocation under the annual allocation procedure of human resources
- requires use of the unallocated margin under the relevant heading of the MFF and/or use of the special instruments as defined in the MFF Regulation.
- requires a revision of the MFF.
3.2.5. Third-party contributions
The proposal/initiative:
- does not provide for co-financing by third parties
- provides for the co-financing by third parties estimated below:
Appropriations in EUR million (to three decimal places)
| Year N31 | Year N+1 | Year N+2 | Year N+3 | Enter as many years as necessary to show the duration of the impact (see point 1.6) | Total | |||
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| TOTAL appropriations co-financed |
3.3. Estimated impact on revenue
- The proposal/initiative has no financial impact on revenue.
- The proposal/initiative has the following financial impact:
- on own resources
- on other revenue
- please indicate, if the revenue is assigned to expenditure lines ◻
EUR million (to three decimal places)
| Budget revenue line: | Appropriations available for the current financial year | Impact of the proposal/initiative32 | ||||||
| Year N | Year N+1 | Year N+2 | Year N+3 | Enter as many years as necessary to show the duration of the impact (see point 1.6) | ||||
| Article …………. |
For assigned revenue, specify the budget expenditure line(s) affected.
Other remarks (e.g. method/formula used for calculating the impact on revenue or any other information).
1https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13396-EU-forests-new-EU-Framework-for-Forest-Monitoring-and-Strategic-Plans_en
2OJ C , , p. .
3OJ C , , p. .
4Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’) (OJ L 243, 9.7.2021, p. 1), ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/1119/oj.
5Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328 21.12.2018, p. 1) ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1999/oj
6Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry in the 2030 climate and energy framework and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 and Decision No 529/2013/EU (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/841/oj) .
7Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/1992/43/oj ).
8Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 (OJ L 150, 9.6.2023, p. 2, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1115/oj).
9Regulation (EU) X/XX of the European Parliament and of the Council of … (OJ …).
10Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (recast) (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2018/2001/oj).
11Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions New European Bauhaus Beautiful, Sustainable, Together (COM(2021) 573 final).
12Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Innovating for Sustainable Growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe (COM/2012/060 final).
13Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions “Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests” of 23.7.2019 (COM(2019) 352 final).
14Regulation (EU) X/XX of the European Parliament and of the Council of … establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals (OJ …).
15 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 23.3.2017 - European Interoperability Framework – Implementation Strategy (COM(2017)134 final).
16Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information (recast) (OJ L 172, 26.6.2019, p. 56 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/1024/oj)
17Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (OJ L 41, 14.2.2003, p. 26 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2003/4/oj).
18Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2007/2/oj).
19Decision (EU) X/X of the European Parliament and of the Council of ... amending Council Decision 89/367/EEC setting up a Standing Forestry Committee (OJ…).
20Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016 (OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_interinstit/2016/512/oj).
21 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/182/oj).
22Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (DO L 328 de 21.12.2018, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1999/oj).
23As referred to in Article 58(2)(a) or (b) of the Financial Regulation.
24Details of budget implementation methods and references to the Financial Regulation may be found on the BUDGpedia site: https://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu/corp/budget/financial-rules/budget-implementation/Pages/implementation-methods.aspx
25Diff. = Differentiated appropriations / Non-diff. = Non-differentiated appropriations.
26EFTA: European Free Trade Association.
27Candidate countries and, where applicable, potential candidates from the Western Balkans.
28Outputs are products and services to be supplied (e.g.: number of student exchanges financed, number of km of roads built, etc.).
29As described in point 1.4.2. ‘Specific objective(s)…’
30Technical and/or administrative assistance and expenditure in support of the implementation of EU programmes and/or actions (former ‘BA’ lines), indirect research, direct research.
31Year N is the year in which implementation of the proposal/initiative starts. Please replace "N" by the expected first year of implementation (for instance: 2021). The same for the following years.
32As regards traditional own resources (customs duties, sugar levies), the amounts indicated must be net amounts, i.e. gross amounts after deduction of 20 % for collection costs.
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