Despite political commitment, Europe is struggling to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Forests, as the hosts of much of the biological diversity in Europe, are vital to this debate. Any initiative designed to halt the biodiversity loss in Europe must take forests into account.

This report’s key objectives are to evaluate the contribution which the Phare programme has made to the legal alignment, implementation and enforcement of the Justice & Home Affairs acquis in the New Member States and in the two remaining Phare beneficiary candidate countries, Bulgaria and...

This report’s key objectives are to evaluate the contribution which the Phare programme has made to the transposition, implementation and enforcement of ‘horizontal’ Public Administrative and Judicial Capacity (PAJC) development in Bulgaria and Romania, and to identify lessons learned,...