The Evaluation Study on the implementation of the ELD highlights the following main barriers to attaining the Directive’s objectives: Insufficient evidence base for evaluation concluding that there is a need for a register; Lack of clarity regarding key concepts; Lack of knowledge on the ELD at national level. Therefore, this project under Task 1 aims at ensuring that appropriate data and information is collected at national and EU levels as the evidence base for future evaluations. This information should be gathered and presented in a form of an EU web catalogue/register which will be available through an IT tool. The reasoning behind the need for action at EU level is based on the fact that the available information at national level is scarce; there is a lack of systematic collection efforts while existence of a common or harmonized approach to collect information may be beneficial for the Member States. The lack of clarity concerning some key concepts (e.g. significant threshold for biodiversity damage) impacts proper implementation of the ELD across the EU as whole. Therefore, this project seeks to identify common understanding of these key terms and identification of best practices. The lack of knowledge on the implementation of the ELD at the national level will be further improved through Task 3. This Task aims to analyse the training needs and propose a number of trainings and capacity building concepts which should improve the implementation of the ELD at national level.
The Evaluation Study on the implementation of the ELD highlights the following main barriers to attaining the Directive’s objectives: Insufficient evidence base for evaluation concluding that there is a need for a register; Lack of clarity regarding key concepts; Lack of knowledge on the ELD at national level. Therefore, this project under Task 1 aims at ensuring that appropriate data and information is collected at national and EU levels as the evidence base for future evaluations. This information should be gathered and presented in a form of an EU web catalogue/register which will be available through an IT tool. The reasoning behind the need for action at EU level is based on the fact that the available information at national level is scarce; there is a lack of systematic collection efforts while existence of a common or harmonized approach to collect information may be beneficial for the Member States. The lack of clarity concerning some key concepts (e.g. significant threshold for biodiversity damage) impacts proper implementation of the ELD across the EU as whole. Therefore, this project seeks to identify common understanding of these key terms and identification of best practices. The lack of knowledge on the implementation of the ELD at the national level will be further improved through Task 3. This Task aims to analyse the training needs and propose a number of trainings and capacity building concepts which should improve the implementation of the ELD at national level.