SufalNet4EU for innovation and sustainable growthRene Beijnen, Project Coördinator

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European Union Community

Owners

Landfill operatorsProject

developers

Non Governmental Organisations

Public Authority

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SufalNet(4EU)• SufalNet, INTERREG IIIC • 2005 – 2007, • 21 partners, 12 Member States• Identification good practice in Model Strategy

SufalNet4EU, INTERREG IVC• Capitalisation in Action Plans • 2010 – 2011,• Budget € 2,6 mln• 15 partners, 10 Member States

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Why SufalNet4EU ?• 150.000 landfills covering 300.000 hectares

• No facilities to protect public health and environment

• Removal and clean-up is too expensive

• Redevelopment is more beneficial

• Good practice identified in SufalNet’s Model Strategy

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Risk assesment

Examination

Aftercare

Land use management & financing

Redevelopment

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Existing former landfill

Waste

Contaminants

Source

Pathway

Receptor

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Policies & Legislation

Technical measures

Organization

Financing

Communication

Legal measures

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Potential landfill sites and Redevelopment functions

Decision model redevelopment

Risk assessments

Selection most promising landfills to be redeveloped

Technical data

Administrative data

Financial data

Acceptability of environmental risks

Community acceptance

Acceptability of financial risks

Redevelopment Proposal

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North Foreshore landfill in Belfast, United Kingdom

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Gulbergen estate as a golf course in Nuenen, Netherlands

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Objective SufalNet4eu

• to give to regional and local authorities specific instruments to redevelop closed and abandoned landfills,

• by

• developing Action Plans which will be implemented by making use of Structural Funds available in each participating region.

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Sub objectives

• To translate the Model Strategy into Action Plans and real projects;

• To involve stakeholders at the start of the identification of real projects;

• To have political commitment to ensure implementation of the Action Plans and real projects;

• To promote SufalNet’s Model Strategy and best practices to other regions in the EU by showing successfully implemented case studies

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TIME TABLE

2010

27-28 April

5-6 October 21-22 September15-16 September

8-9 December

2011

March

June

November

Launch Conference (plenary) S’-Hertogenbosch

Working Group Meeting Poznan, Kosice, Ludwigsburg

Coördination Conference (plenary) Lavrio

Working Group Meeting Badajoz, Sicily, Bistrita

Coördination Conference (plenary) Belfast

Final Conference (plenary) Salerno

Identification,selection

Land use planning

Environmental planning

Implementation aspects: legal, social, finances

Draft Action Plan and eligibility EU Structural Funds

Action Plan

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Objectives Communication & Dissimination• Increasing transparency and awareness of EU funds

• EU money is spent to improve neglected area’s for EU-citizens and to save greenfield area

• Helping others to benefit from our good practices • SufalNet’s Model Strategy is a good practice for sustainable use of former

landfills to be used all over Europe

• Creating awareness of our project activities and results• Our good practices will be actually implemented in regional development

programmes and co-financed with EU-money

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Thank you

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