Beneficiary Country: Marocco
Twinning Code: MA04/AA/EN/03
Project Type: MEDA
Title: Support to the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Environment for the integrated Environment management, harmonisation of the national environmental legal framework and convergence with EU environmental legislation
Objective: Strengthening central level institutional structures in order to achieve, sound and efficient management of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds
Budget amount: €700.000,00
Duration: 18 months as of 01/01/2006
Leading Partner: Italy
Junior Partner: Austria - Austrian Federal Environmental Agency
Italian Partners: Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio
Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze – Dipartimento per le Politiche di Sviluppo
Agenzia per la protezione dell'ambiente e per i servizi tecnici
Formez – Centro di Formazione Studi
Regione Basilicata
Studiare Sviluppo (Mandated Body)
Project Leader Italy : Aldo Ravazzi Douvan
Project Leader Morocco : Taha Balafrej
Resident Twinning Advisor: Carlo Bifulco (dal 16.05.06), Francesco Bertorello (fino al 15.05.06)
Components:
Component 1: Capacity building component.
Ensuring better policy and legislation planning in the field of environment and water, taking into account institutional, legal and financial aspects. Strengthening the administrative capacity for the development of environmental policies and legislation
Component 2: Legal aspects component.
Ensuring the internal harmonisation of the Moroccan environmental legal framework, in order to improve its implementation. Developing plans for convergence with EU environmental legislation taking into account institutional, legal and financial aspects
Component 3: Formation Aspect
Component 4: Study visit
Gemellaggio Italia-Marocco 
