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EU STRATEGY FOR THE ADRIATIC AND IONIAN REGION (EUSAIR)
REPORT on Stakeholders Consultation SLOVENIA
for Pillar: Driving innovative maritime and marine growth
1. Consultation process
Consultation process has been based on on-line consultations and phone interviews, taking
into account observations of the stakeholders expressed throughout the process of the
preparation of the macroregional strategy.
2. Problems/opportunities statement
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Lack of cooperation at regional/sea basin level
Lack of knowledge comparability of data for measuring certain indicators
Lack of exchange of marine environment relevant data and information
Low number of fish stocks assessed
Incomplete assessment for some relevant elements due to lack of long-term series
Non-existing evaluation of cross-border pressures and impacts
Lack of in-depth scientific knowledge on shared stocks
Lack of common research projects between private sectors and public institutions with
focusing on market oriented products
Slow progress on developing the business culture for particular target groups (youth,
women…)
3. Objectives, priority areas and actions
3.1 Overall and specific objectives
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Sustainable development of the fisheries sector
Strengthening of cooperation on regional and sub-regional level for collection and
pooling of data
Supports enterprises investment, blue economy sectors and strengthen cooperation and
synergies with research centres and education institutions
Improvement of stock assessment
Improvement of fisheries management and common management across the
Mediterranean
Implementation of multiannual plans for sustainable fisheries in the GFCM area
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3.2 Coherence with EU2020 and other national priorities
The Slovenian Ministry of Economic Development and Technology is responsible for the
coordination and preparation of the Partnership Agreement and of the Operational
programmes for the next MFF. The thematic concentration of the Republic of Slovenia on a
limited number of objectives reflects the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy,
requirements of the EU Cohesion Policy legislative framework as well as the national
development needs. The selected priorities represent a turning point for the Republic of
Slovenia, namely we have, as a priority, focused over 50 per cent of the EU Cohesion funds
on strengthening research, technological development and innovation (thematic objective 1)
and enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (thematic
objective 3). In process, it is intended to further identify synergies between investment of the
European Structural and investment funds and macro regional objectives.
The contribution to the new macro-regional approach by transnational programmes was also
identified as essential. TNP can prepare for further projects with a macro-regional
perspective.
3.3 Priority areas
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Developing knowledge society and invest in people and skills
Supporting competitiveness of regional enterprises and SME's in fishery sector.
3.3.1 Actions
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Development of a common stock assessment methodologies
Supporting SME's investment on innovation and research and providing training
Increased cooperation between research centres and education institutions
Improvement or set-up of common databases as sources of data for stock assessments
Cooperation for implementation of the existing obligations on the level of the EU (CFP)
and regional level (GFCM)
4. Expected results and targets
Cooperation is a tool to better reach national objectives. We cooperate, because it is
beneficial for states participating in the macroregion. We need therefore to focus on what we
can achieve better only through cooperation. Results should be measurable and targets
should be concrete. Main indicator should be number of common realised projects, their
impact on achieving goals of specific priority area…
5. Overall assessment of the consultation process
Consultation process has been limited since it was conducted predominantly via on-line
consultations. It would be more appropriate to enable stakeholders to meet in person as it
was the case when having the stakeholders consultations in the process of preparation of the
EU Strategy for the Danube region. We should devote special attention to people-to-people
contacts in the next phases of developing/implementing the Strategy. Most suitable time for
mid-term review of the Action Plan should be after implantation of some common envisaged
projects.
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Annex 1 – List of stakeholder consulted
Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Dimičeva 13,1504 Ljubljana
T.:01/5898000
F:01/5898100
E:info@gzs.si
splet: http://www.gzs.si
Annex 2 – Logical framework [Summarise and show the causality nexus between
problems/needs, objectives, priority areas and the expected targets. The logical framework
will help to identify possible internal lacks of coherence and it is proposed as a tool to
cross-check the relevance of the proposed priority areas.]
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