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STIMULATION OF LOCAL ACTORS

OBJECTIVES
To guarantee the effective involvement of local institutions in the EMAS registration of wide area
To guarantee the institution of a proper management to the realization of EMAS registration procedure and its implementation in local processes/instruments of planning
To facilitate the start of EMAS registration for the Park Agency and the MunicipalitiesACTIONS
2.1 Stimulation of the local actors
The action pursues the organization of meetings with the Park Community, Municipalities (partners of the project and others), Agenda 21 Forum and other important subjects included in the project area. The aim is the stimulation of local actors to participate at the project and to identify the organism of reference to obtain the EMAS registration of the wide area. The PNDB will promote and organize meetings in co-operation with all the partners and stakeholders. Meetings will consist on formative contents towards the present subjects but also study moments and analysis of the planning and management instruments that are already used by the Park and municipalities. In this way these instruments will be integrated with new information that will result in the course of the meetings. The action will permit the institution of a Promoting Committee for EMAS procedure on wide area, where stimulated subject will be involved.
At least 10 meetings will be developed before 6 months of the start of the project.
2.2 Assistance for EMAS registration
The PNDB is the responsible of the action and it will work with Ambiente Italia and external consultants as internal and external auditor accredited by EMAS Committee. The actions consists on flanking the Park and the municipalities that will pursue the EMAS registration and it will be carried out through environmental referents or responsible of individual municipalities, dispensing a questionnaire to analyse the conformity of the regulation and identifying critical areas, then the elaboration of collected data and showing the results to the municipalities. The analysis and the detailed characterization of their activities and environmental components involved will be pursued thanks to the realization of meetings with individual municipalities. Assistance will be provided for environmental programmes disposition and environmental declarations and to form referees.

RESULTS
Institution of a Promoting Committee for EMAS procedure on wide area working with other subjects besides partners
The start of EMAS registration at least for 1/3 of municipalities
To acquire useful data for Environmental Analysis and Environmental improvement Area Plan.

AWAITED RESULTS
level of municipalities’ participation
number of EMAS registration started

CONSTRAINTS AND ASSUMPTIONS
The effectiveness and results of this task directly correlate with the capability of the Management Team in involving local actors in the strategies of the project. From this point of view project’s staff can make maximum benefit from the well-established relationships built during past years with local stakeholders that brought the Park to a leading role for the environmental and socio-economical policies in the area of the Dolomiti Bellunesi. As a proof it follows a list of the main agreements and collaborations promoted in the last years with local authorities/organisations:
1. “Forum Agenda 21” in co-operation with 15 municipalities, the province of Belluno and the local Comunità Montana, for the implementation of the promotional and valorisation of economical activities inside the park area and in the adjacent territories (dedicated web site: http://www.dolomitipark.it/italiano/agenda21/index.php)
2. “Protocollo d’Intesa” (Framework Agreement) with the Unione Artigiani/Confartigianato (Handcrafts’ Association) of Belluno and with APPIA – CNA (SMEs’ Association) of Belluno (Decision of the Park no. 66/99 of the 18/06/99)
3. “Accordo di programma” (Programmatic Agreement) with Associazione del Commercio, Turismo e Servizi ASCOM (Association of traders, tourist enterprises and services) of Belluno (Decision of the Park n. 65/99 of the 18/06/99
4. “Carta Qualità” with the participation of almost 60 enterprises (hotels, camping, B&B, etc.) involved in economical activities inside the park area (dedicated web site: http://www.dolomitipark.it/italiano/carta_qualita.php)
5. “Progetto Case del Parco” (project “Houses of the Park”) in co-operation with 5 small municipalities for hosting tourists and valorise traditional products of the area
6. Co-operation with the Comunità Montana “Agordina” for the conservation and refurbishment of the “Centre for Visitors” and the youth hostel using environmental warming new technologies (partially founded by Interreg II Programme).
7. Project “Fossil free” aimed to improve the use of alternative technologies for production of energy, waste management, wastewater treatment and mobility all over the park area with participation of private and public bodies in all the municipalities (dedicated web site: http://www.dolomitipark.it/italiano/link_ente/fossil.php
Moreover the PNDB has been the first Italian Park to adopt the “Plan for Economic and social development” (established by law 394/91), approved by Veneto Region in November 2000 in which are planned the activities for the collaboration, the solidarity and the concourse among all the communities living into the Park.