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The French ELD methodological guide

Guideline and Software Visual HEA Sylvain Pioch, University Montpellier / CEFE EU 2nd Stakeholder Conference, 11 June 2013 sylvain.pioch@univ-montp3.fr

A guide by & for the final users

Redactionnal committee composition

 Decentralised services of MEDDE at regional and departmental levels  Ministries in charge of Agriculture, Industry, of the Interior  Departmental Prefects (Competent Administrative Authority designed) and

administrative judges

 Different scientific councils (on water, aquatic systems, nature

preservation, ...)

 Civil society : industrials, insurance sector, local authorities, NGOs on

environmental issues

 MEDDE = Ministry of Ecology (legal department, risk prevention

department, water and biodiversity department and Department of the Commissioner-general for Sustainable Development )

Elaboration of the guide (3 meetings between

October 2011 and February 2012)

Validation by the working group (April 2012) 1 - Guide

An operationnal tool

Large consultation (May 2012) of

decentralised services at regional and departmental levels

Comments taken into account and model

making of the guide (from June to July 2012)

Distribution (end of August) to the

decentralised services and the working group

National workshop (21 September 2012) On-line publishing (mid of October 2012. English version in February 2013): http://www.developpement-

durable.gouv.fr/La-loi-responsabilite.html

1 - Guide

How to use it ?

The summary : what is essential to be known

• n the ELL (27 April 2009) and the use of

equivalency methods in 11 pages and in the form

• f 8 questions :

1.

Which operators and activities are concerned?

2.

Who is the competent administrative authority?

3.

Which measures may be required?

4.

When should this mechanism be implemented?

5.

Who does what? (1) between operators and the (2) competent administrative authority

6.

What do these approaches represent and what do they do?

7.

Which process should be used to determine the remedial measures?

1 - Guide

A guide divided in 2 part

Part 1, framework

Presentation

• f

the framework from the ELL Legal and regulatory context 5 summary help sheets for the implementation

• f the ELL

1 - Guide

Part 2, operational

 Determination of the remedial measures :

 Equivalency methods and value approaches : what

are they ?

 7-Phase process for determining remedial

measures :

1.

Identification of the event causing the damage

2.

Determination of the site's baseline condition

3.

Identification and analysis of potential remediation projects

4.

Choice of scaling approach

5.

Scaling of the remediation project

6.

Sensitivity Analysis

7.

Remediation, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

1 - Guide

Software to implement HEA

 Visual HEA => help to enter in

the equivalency methods !

• Avoid fastidious & repetitive

calcul

• Easy to program
• Ergonomic
• Friendly training support

 Freeware to develop a

community of user, share experiences (European / world users)

2 – Software Visual HEA

Principles

 Translate the amount of Ecosytemic services through

visual graph

 Translate gain & losses to compare their equivalency 2 – Software Visual HEA

 Visual HEA_FR 2_6

Main interest from users

 To help in the sensitivity analysis = assessment of the

ES losses/gain, and negociation for compensatory mitigation size

2 – Software Visual HEA Life duration of

• Comp. Mitigation

Amount of gain from comp. Mitig.

Limit of the software

The Software Visual_HEA can’t :

• Help you in the choice of proxy, the

Initial State

• Help you in the choice of

compensatory mitigation

• Help you to assess your operation

… but we are working on => « MORA » (spain program) : Visual HEA is complementary with Mora (scoring gain & losses)

2 – Software Visual HEA

Thank you for your attention !

Sylvain Pioch, CNRS – UM3

• Lab. CEFE (UMR 5175)

Tel : 00 33 (0)4 67 14 23 14 Mail :

sylvain.pioch@univ-montp3.fr

Software : http://www.developpement- durable.gouv.fr/La-loi- responsabilite.html For any remark / claim please contact Break-out biodiversity Damage

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Introduction to discussion round 2

Sylvain Pioch, University Montpellier 3 EU 2nd Stakeholder Conference, 11 June 2013

Do you think that Member States and stakeholders are fit to apply biodiversity damage remediation pursuant to the ELD ?

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Over issues related :

 Which questions or concepts would you consider

needing further developments or explanations (favourable conservation status, baseline condition, complementary and compensatory remediation etc.)?

 Are Member States fit to apply primary, complementary

and compensatory remediation for damage to protected species and natural habitats?

 Given the uneven level of protection regarding the

scope of biodiversity damage due to the extension to nationally protected species and habitats by half of the Member States (and the others not): Should the scope be extended to cover all nationally protected species and habitats? Should there be binding guidelines helping MS with the implementation of Annex II ELD?

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Enhance the skills and knowledge, what is done in EU ?

 -> Gap in the level of knowledge/skills for local

governmental environmental agency in charge to apply the ELD (

• Guide produced by Ministry of environment (REMEDE

Europe, SP, UK, NL)

• Software to apply (FR “Visual HEA”, SP “MORA”)
• Workshop organised by scientist and contractor

(Insurance experts, Europe)

• But…what about the local gov. agencies / final users ?

 -> Mis-perception with industrial about the concept to

“repare” in nature the nature

• Insurances develop training and handbook
• The French Federation of industry produced guideline
• Over tools to simplify the concept of mitigation…

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Thank you

sylvain.pioch@univ-montp3.fr

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