22-24 April, Brussels (BE)

GTCAP events

OPENING SESSION

• Keynote: main challenges from the reform
  
• Focusing on Ecological Focus Area
  
• Workshop challenges
  

SESSION 1: LPIS Quality Assessment

• Overview of the 2013 scores + feedback on the remedial action plans
  
• Experience from crop measurement
  
• Changes to the 2014-2015 LPIS quality assessment guidance
  

SESSION 2: Geospatial Application (GA)

• How will the GA affect the administration and control of Area aids?
  
• Member State experience Romania
  
• The technical function of geospatial applications in Greece
  
• Implications of the GA on the LPIS
  
• Declaring EFA: a virtual case
  

SESSION 3: LPIS update

• The 2% stability threshold
  
• Member State experience Latvia
  
• Member State experience Ireland
  
• How does this impact on the LPIS activities (upkeep and update)
  

SESSION 4: Greening in the LPIS

• Main challenges from the reform (EFA layer)
  
• Member State experience Lithuania
  
• Some aspects concerning ecological focus area and permanent grassland
  
• Implications on the LPIS core model
  
• MS Q&A
  

SESSION 5: Grassland and pasture

• Identification and delineation of grassland and pasture in the lower Danube basin (BG-RO)
  
• Reduction coefficient on permanent grassland
  

SESSION 6: Future of the OTSC

• Effect of reform on OTSC
  
• Possible add-on : Biodiversity data collection methodology
  

SESSION 7: The environmental dimension

• Possible add-on: Climate data collection methodology
  
• Possible add-on: Biodiversity data collection methodology
  

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