SEIS South II and H2020 Review & Monitoring Steering Committee, Athens

The 1st Steering Committee of the 2nd phase of implementation of the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) principles and practices in the ENP South region – SEIS Support Mechanism (ENI SEIS II South) took place in Athens on 12-14 December 2016. This meeting was the 1st merging of ENI SEIS and H2020 (depolluting the Mediterranean Sea) Review and Monitorig (RM) group which was beneficial to enhance coordination, common understanding and engagement from countries, regional initiatives and networks involved. It was agreed to keep that model for future meetings. An agreement was reached on the need to secure full convergence among all indicator initiatives and to facilitate a common response and communication around it. A short term working group was established to prepare a proposal for a core set of Med indicators. The preliminary ENI SEIS II website was presented (http://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/south) and will be populated progressively with supports from countries and results from previous phase (http://enpi-seis.pbe.eea.europa.eu/south). One of the main objectives of this second phase is to publish by 2019 the 2nd regional assessment of H2020 implementation based on indicators