International workshop
“Planning offshore windfarms in line with Natura 2000 requirements: legal frame, impacts, investigation standards and procedures”
29-30 May, Sigulda, Latvia
The objective of the workshop was :
• discuss the current situation, problems and needs concerning planning and impact assessment of offshore windfarms in the Baltic States,
• learn from relevant experiences of other countries (Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands) to avoid negative impacts of this new economic activity on nature values in the Eastern Baltic Sea.
Target Audience: Baltic authorities responsible for Environmental Impact Assessment, nature conservation, planning, renewable energy, use of marine areas (including Exclusive Economic Zone); relevant local and regional governments; wind energy associations, developers and EIA experts; guest experts from Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.
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Agenda
Report
Presentations:
1. Opening and introduction (Ms. Heidrun Fammler, BEF)
2. Baltic country reports: Latvia (by Mr. Raimonds Kašs, Ministry of the Environment & Mr. Edgars Bojars, BEF)
3. Baltic country reports: Lithuania (by Ms. Migle Masaityte, Ministry of the Environment)
4. Baltic country reports: Estonia (by Ms. Irma Pakkonen, Ministry of the Environment)
5. Overview of the situation in Sweden (Mr. Ebbe Adolfsson, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency)
6. Overview of the situation in Denmark (by Mr. Jesper Kyed Larsen, Vattenfall, Denmark)
7. Overview of the situation in the Netherlands (by Mr. Jakob Asjes, Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Netherlands)
8. Legal Provisions for Off-Shore Wind Energy and Off-Shore Spatial Planning in Germany (by Ms. Anne Barbara Walter, Federal Environment Agency, Germany)
9a. Offshore wind energy in Germany (by Mr. Nico Nolte, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany)
9b. Marine spatial planning in Germany (by Mr. Nico Nolte, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany)
10. Standards for offshore wind farms in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (by Mr. Nico Nolte, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany)
11. EIA and Natura 2000 assessment for marine protected areas (by Mr. Jan Kube, Institute for Applied Ecology, Germany)
12. Ecological research initiated by the German Federal Government in the North and Baltic Seas in relation to the planned use of wind energy (by Mr. Jan Kube, Institute for Applied Ecology, Germany)
13. The environmental monitoring programme at Horns Rev and Nysted offshore wind farms, Denmark (by Mr. Jesper Kyed Larsen, Vattenfall, Denmark)
14. Avian avoidance behaviour and collision risk: Experiences from the offshore wind farms at Horns Rev and Nysted (by Mr. Tony Fox et al., National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Denmark)
15a. The Monitoring & Evaluation Programme at Egmond aan Zee offshore windfarm (by Mr. Jakob Asjes, Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Netherlands)
15b. The We@Sea project (by Mr. Jakob Asjes, Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Netherlands)
National coordinator of the project in Latvia: Edgars Bojars (phone: 6735 7548; fax: 6750 7071;
e-mail: edgars.bojars@bef.lv ).
