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FORUM OFFORUM OFADRIATIC AND IONIAN ADRIATIC AND IONIAN

CITIES & TOWNSCITIES & TOWNS

The Adriatic ICZM Expert The Adriatic ICZM Expert GroupGroup

Piero Remitti Ancona, 14.07.2006

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Ancona, 1999

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The birth

The Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities and Towns was born in 1999 on the initiative of the Municipality of Ancona and ANCI (Italian National Association of Municipalities ) with the approval of the Charter of Ancona, which contains the basic principles of the Forum activities:

- Peace- Democracy and liberty- Reference to European Union- Increasing the value of the Adriatic culture with its millenary roots

THE BIRTH OF THE FORUM

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Members

ITALY:ITALY: Monfalcone, Venice, Adria, Ravenna, Chioggia, Riccione, Rimini, Pesaro, Senigallia, Falconara M., Ancona, Civitanova M., San Benedetto del T., Trani, Manfredonia, Torchiarolo, Molfetta, San Pietro Vernotico, Alessano, Casarano, Tricase, Bari, Brindisi, Taranto, Francavilla a Mare, Ortona, Pescara, Porto S.Giorgio

CROATIACROATIA:: Rijeka, Split, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Šibenik, Ploče

SLOVENIASLOVENIA:: Koper, Izola

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINBOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Neum

MONTENEGROMONTENEGRO: : Bar

ALBANIAALBANIA: : Durres, Lezhe, Valona, Shkodra, Saranda

GREECEGREECE:: Patras, Igoumenitsa, Corfu, Preveza, Parga

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Presidents

• 1999-Renato Galeazzi, Mayor of Ancona(I)• 2000-Ivan Škarić, Mayor of Spalato(HR)• 2001-Simone Di C. Abbrescia, Mayor of Bari(I)• 2002-Andreas Dais, Mayor of Igoumenitsa(GR)• 2003-Vojko Obersnel, Mayor of Rijeka(HR)• 2004-Fortunato Guarnieri, Mayor of Chioggia(I)• 2005-Anka Vojvodić, Mayor of Bar(SCG)• 2006-Boris Popovič, Mayor of Koper(SLO)

• 1999-2006 General Secretary- Bruno Bravetti, Ancona(I)

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The goals

To create, through the engagement of the two coast Municipalities, a real Adriatic-Ionian governance, starting with the theme of the SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

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The tools

The significance of the participation in the EU programmes has more than a financial aspect. It has a cultural dimension based on research, innovation and partnerships with the other local governments of the same basin/ecosystem/region. Also significant is the possibility to try out all forms of the operative collaboration put in the practice by numberless declarations of the good will expressed during the Forums Plenary Sessions. Use of EU programmes means to pass from words to facts!

- AAP 2020 /INTERREG 3c (www.aap2020.net)

- IONAS / INTERACT (www.ionasproject.net)

- ENVIPLANS/DG Envir. (www.enviplans.net)

- ADRIATIC SECRETARIAT /INTERREG 3A

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Milestones - 1

1999 - Ancona

foundation of the Forum, approved document “The Charter of Ancona”

2000 - Split

approved document “Infrastruttures of the Adriatic/Ionian area”

2001 - Bari

approved document “For the sustainable development”

2001 - Brindisi

Programmatic conference; Forum is passing from the initial phase of the meeting point for the cities cooperation and approves the CONSTITUTION Charter

2002 - Igoumenitsa

approved documents “The difence of the common environmental and cultural legacy” and “Strategic role of the ports”

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Milestones - 2

2003 - Rijekaapproved document “Dialogue with the European Institutions”

2004 - Chioggiaapproved document “Sustainable Tourism”

2005 - Barapproved document “The integrated Coastal Management in the Sustainable Development of the Adriatic and Ionian Basin”The Forum Managing Committee held in Ancona on the 17th of October definitively decided to implement and coordinate a working group on ICZM (Integrated Costal Zones Management) policies. This group is expected to be support to Forum and its cities-partners in access to European programs.

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850.000 euros ca.

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The idea of an ADRIATIC ACTION PLAN was firstly presented in October 2001 at the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities and Towns…

Proposed and endorsed by the UN as a Type 2 Partnership at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg…

Selected and presented as a best practice at the thirdWorld Water Forum 2003 in Kyoto

Submitted and approved in the first INTERREG IIIC call in April 2003…

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1. Ancona (Lead partner) 2. Brindisi 3. Patras

4. Venezia 5. Lower Austria 6. Regione Marche 7. S.Benedetto del T. 8. Molfetta 9.

Pescara 10. Bar 11. UBC - Union of Baltic Cities 12. Rijeka 13. Provincia di Ravenna 14.

Casarano 15. Tricase 16. Alessano 17. Ravenna 18. Split 19. Instituto Tecnologico de

Canarias 20. Bristol 21. Senigallia 22. Shkoder 23. Lloret de mar 24. Xativa 25.

Pesaro 26. Koper 27. Provincia di Bari

The Aap Partners are…

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the Aap final goal is an evolution in local government

towards a common scenario (urban

climax) that assumes

sustainability as an innovation factor,

a market and a governance maker,

promoting the integration of

sustainable practices and

procedures

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sustainability

governance

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a management system for Local

Sustainable Development (LSD)

composed by:

1. Sustainability Reporting (ACI)

2. Envir. Management System

(EMS)

3. Adriatic Sustainable

Accounting Proc. (asap)

sustainability

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6. Waste management6.1 kg/pc/day of municipal wastes by type of disposal6.2 % of recycled wastes

7. Availability of local public spaces and services people living within a 300 mt. distance from the area

8. Population, education, safety8.1 density of population 8.2 average of members for each family 8.3 achievement at secondary school8.4 average life expetancy8.5 total reported crimes

9. Contacts and relationships9.1 places for social, cultural, leisure activities9.2 how often people attend social and cultural events9.3 quality of the internet connection of the public adm.9.4 % of people who have access to internet

10. Employement and enterprises10.1 % of employed people by sectors and gender 10.2 number of enterprises (large, SME and crafts) 10.3 number of tourists per year

1. Water1.1 surface water quality (EBI or SACA index)1.2 marine water quality (trophic index)1.3 consumption (l/pc/day)1.4 water management (% of treated water)

2. Biodiversity2.1 number of species (birds) in my garden2.2 number of species (birds) in the region

3. Climate change and air quality3.1 CO2 emissions by sectors3.2 24 hours average of concentration of PM10

4. Land use patterns4.1 % of urbanized areas 4.2 % of derelict lands 4.3 % of contaminated lands4.4 % of natural conservation areas4.5 % of cultural conservation areas

5. Local mobility system daily number of trips per citizen by mode

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The Adriatic Action Plan, elaborated by the Adriatic Forum, will be drafted by 2006 and shall contain

common strategies, objectives, actions and commitments to be implemented before the year 2020.

The Adriatic Action Plan will be directly transferred to all partners cities for its adoption and integration in

every local program or strategy, but it will also be disseminated to all Adriatic and Ionian cities and others

government levels, up to National Governments).

In the years following the end of the project the implementation of the Adriatic Action Plan will be

monitored by the AAP Agency with the target to have a complete project update every 5 years.

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Aap2020

AAP2020 Committments 2006The following cities, provinces and regions, recognizing themselves as local governments of an unique and common Adriatic region, and recognizing the necessity and the urgence of implementing effective sustainability policies at local level, will be committed in:1. implementing by the year 2020 the Adriatic Action Plan, as attached, each one referring to the actions in its own competence, integrating them in its public budgeting, accountability and decisional procedures. In this sense, they are committed to intensify and consolidate all the partnership and cooperation activities aimed to the funding and searching for resources of actions, starting from the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities and Towns;2. getting financial, human and technical resources, aimed to the realization of the Adriatic Action Plan, with a special attention to the opportunities provided by the next EU funding framework (2007/2013), but referring as well to other international funding agencies and opportunities (UN, World Bank, etc.);3. involving the local communities in the realization of the Adriatic Action Plan, by using at their best the governance tools and procedures nowadays available, and providing opportunities to the stakeholders organizations and the local actors for their integration in decisional procedures

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4. utilizing, diffusing and periodically updating the ACI sustainabilty indicators (Adriatic Common Indicators), up to the creation of a common Adriatic data-bank aimed to monitor and improve the state of implementation and effectiveness of the sustainability policies at local level and the A.C.I. report/data bank must be formuled in english language;5. supporting and incentivating the use and the diffusion of Management Systems for the sustainable development of urban Adriatic areas.The AapAgency2020, established by the Adriatic Action Plan 2020 project and hosted by the Municipality of Ancona, is committed to:6. transmitting the Adriatic Action Plan 2020 to all the Adriatic cities, local and national governments, aiming to stimulate and facilitate their involvement in the Plan implementation. The Adriatic Action Plan 2020 must be monitored in its development, and periodically updated during the annual Assembly of the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities and Towns;7. presenting the Adriatic Action Plan to the Mediterranean Commission for Sustainable Development within one year from its approval, calling for its integration in the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development, and to the other international Agencies and Organizations and networks relevant for the development and the effectiveness of the Plan.

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3. Climate change and air quality01. To study the effects of sea water level on the coast line 24 hours monitoring02. Save energy03. Financial support for solar energy04. Restrict use of cars05. Reduce the use of energy generators (Albania)06. Building stocks: insert bioarchitecture standards in the new building and in therebuild ones - Industry: as previous07. Guiding enterprises towards EMAS certification08. Apply Kyoto protocol09. Regolamento uso obbligatorio pannelli fotovoltaici per nuove costruzioni (Alessano)10. Establishment of Measurment Stations for air monitoring (Rijeka)11. Commercial public service of the local activities of the operator for the distributionof natural gas (Koper)12. Installare pannelli solari termici su tutti gli edifici di proprietà pubblica (Ancona)13. Monitoring plan for the air quality (Marche Region)14. Installazione di centraline fisse per la rilevazione della qualità dell’aria in continuo(Casarano)15. Riduzione della pressione fiscale locale (ICI – Oneri) per chi installa impianti fotovoltaici(Casarano)

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NEEDS for

A common language

A project coordination

Public/private partnerships

International donors and

partners

Adriatic Strategy for sustainable development

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Framework

International donors and

partners

Marine ecosystems -

integrated coastal zones

management- Coast Plan (interreg 3b)

Shipping

- Ionas (interact)

Tourism

- Suvot (interreg 3c)

Watershed and urban management

- Aap2020 (interreg 3c)

A basic and bottom-up framework for projects coordination

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