2015
January-March
28/02/2015: Delivery of revised databases, based on the follow-up work during 2014 focussing on preparing the databases for the biogeographical seminars of 2015
28/02/2015: Submission of individual QA/QC reports on the completeness of the national Emerald databases in view of their evaluation (for countries submitting a new database)
January/February 2015: Signature of the Administrative Arrangements for 2015 with all target countries. AAs to facilitate action from national Emerald teams and authorities in a follow-up to the preparatory biogeographical seminars:
- (1) filling the gaps of sufficiency in the identification of potential sites;
- (2) correcting inconsistencies in databases;
- (3) transfer of data from old to new SDF/semi-automatical using the new Software;
- (4) revision of database according to new Annex 1 of Res. 4 (if adopted)
April-June
Finalisation of specific guidelines on Emerald sites' management and reporting for Central and Eastern European countries and South Caucasus; submission to the Group of Experts on Ecological Networks & Standing Committee to the Bern Convention.
- Biogeographical evaluation Seminar for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (27-29 May, Tbilisi, Georgia)
July- September
- Biogeographical evaluation Seminar for the Arctic and Boreal biogeographical regions (28-30 September, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation)
November
- Biogeographical Seminar for bird species for Belarus, Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine (24-25 November, Minsk, Belarus)