LIFE+ funds are already regulated

The Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) has recently published the Regulation (EC)614/2007 of the European Parliament and the Council, of 23 May 2007, concerning the Financial Instrument for the Environment (LIFE+) -OJEU vol. 50, L 149, published 09.06.2007-. To access the regulation content, please visit the following webpage:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:149:SOM:EN:HTML
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From there you can also access the same information in the remainder official languages of the European Union. If you prefer to read it in English, you can directly access the regulation at the web address
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2007/l_149/l_14920070609en00010016.pdf

Available documents for the SEMCLIMED partners

The teams working as SEMCLIMED project partners can already access the report on results of the meeting held in Rabat, 15th-18th May 2007. To get key information to download the procès-verbal please contact gestio.cief@gva.es

Prof. Jalal El Oualidi (Institut Scientifique de Rabat, ISR) receives the first seed accessions from the CIEF's seedbank, given at hand by the Semclimed coordinator, Mr Antoni Marzo (CIEF). This first delivery included seeds of Anarhinum fruticosum and Boerhavia repens, two North-Western African species whose unique relictic populations to Europe are found in the province of Alicante (Valencian Community, Spain).

After the development of the first Semclimed's campaign to harvest seeds in Morocco (October 2006), in order to initiate the creation of the ISR's seedbank, some of the project partners gone on with the cooperation actions proposed in the Semclimed's phase 4. During the recent meeting of the project in Rabat (15th-19th May), the main coordinator Antoni Marzo officially delivered to the ISR a first pack of seedbank equipments, as well as several seed accession, both coming from the first campaign (October 2006), and from Valencian populations of shared rare or threatened plant species.

The second campaign, developed in May under the coordination of Dr. Jalal El Oualidi (Institute Scientifique de Rabat) and Dr. Josep M. Montserrat (Institut Botànic de Barcelona) has yielded poor results, due to the extensive lack of seeds in the prospected Moroccan sites. Sudden warming registered by early May has quickly dried the flowering stems of most Maroccan endemic species, choosen in the former months as main targets to fill the future seedbank of the ISR.

Prof. Josep M. Montserrat, during the field excursion of the 2nd Semclimed's meeting at Lixus and the Bas Loukkos area(Larache)

Good development of the 2nd SEMCLIMED Meeting in Rabat

Prof. El Oualidi, organizator of the 2nd Semclimed meeting, attending a TV interview during the meeting development in the ISR, Rabat

The analysis of the 2nd SEMCLIMED general meeting (Rabat, 15th-19th May 2007) yields a good pack of results, going to be drafted in the report to be submitted in a feww days to the Interreg authorities. The success of the meeting has been a consequence of the excellent organisation provided by the ISR (Institut Scientifique de Rabat, Universite Mohammed V) under the coordination of Prof. Jalal El-Oualidi. Prof. Mohammed A. El-Agbani, from the Deaprtment of Zoology, also cooperated giving a lecture on the managing planning for the Bas Loukkos (Ramsar Site, to be proposed as National Park) and acting as field guide to know the site.

The mid-term review of the Semclimed project shows that most phases are enough developed, but some of them (mainly for phases 2 and 7, reporting practical experiences with phytotrons and communication schedule) must be accelerated and reinforced in the next months.

In the hills of the archeaological site of Lixus, which provides a panoramic view of the Bas Loukkos area, Prof. El Agbani explains to the SEMCLIMED meeting attendants the management project proposed for this site.