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Minutes of meeting
TitleGreen Spider Core group meeting
Date7 October 2005
PlaceCity Hall, Dublin, Ireland
ParticipantsIlze Brakmane, Latvia,
Laurence Dayet, France,
Roel Linn, Netherlands,
Marie Briguglio, Malta,
Ilva Tivéusand Carina Vopel, DG Environment
Mariana Barouh, Bulgaria
Malene Bruun, EEA,
Anders Richelsen and Lisbeth Moliin, secretariat,
AbsentEva Lindhé, Sweden
Prepared byLisbeth Moliin, 3 November 2005
DistributionCore group members, GSN Circa Interest Group
EECN Secretariat
c/o COWI A/S
Parallelvej 2
DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby
Denmark
Tel+45 45 97 22 11
Fax +45 45 97 22 12
Ilze Brakmane welcomed everybody to the first meeting of the new core group. It was a short meeting mainly to exchange ideas for the coming year.
1Activities in the year to come
Some of the topics proposed for further discussion were:
•How to make less active members more active
•How to exchange ideas and experience in a different form than the present tour-de-table at the Annual Meeting, for instance
-introduce an annual award for project of the year, e.g. by asking all members to send in descriptions of successful projects/activities and having the presentations, a vote and award ceremony at the annual meeting.
-exchange experience on the internet
Action: Next core group meeting should elaborate more on these ideas. There might already be some ideas as to criteria for the selection of the most interesting projects.
The secretariat will ask members to check up on contact details and provide missing information.
2Annual meeting 2006
The next annual meeting will take place in Riga, the date to be set so as not to collide with elections in Latvia in late September, the holiday period in the Commission and mobility week.
Action:Ilze Brakmane will propose a dateto be discussed at the next meeting
3Next core group meetings
The next core group meeting should take place after the topic of next year's green week is known. This is expected to be decided some time in October. It was suggested that the meeting be placed in either Copenhagen or Brussels.
Action:Ilze Brakmane will propose a date and place upon information from DG Environment as to the topic of Green Week 2006. The meeting should preferably take place at the beginning of December.
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