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An evaluation of the biodiversity impacts of the Nationai Action Pian for Biodiversity in Finland
1997—2005 commenced in the beginning of2004. This work is to examine the present state of biodiversity in Finland and current trends, whiie aiso assessing the effectiveness and adequacy of the national action pian with regard to safeguarding biodiversity. The evaluation 5 particuiariy being based on the iatest information avaiiabie on biodiversity and reiated trends since 1997, but information from before 1997wiii aiso be used.
The resuits of the evaiuation are due in March
2005, and wiii be considered during the drafting of a new national action pian for the period
2006—2016, which wiil commence during2005. To facilitate the use of the evaluation results in the drafting of the new pian of action, the report will particuiarly focus on the effectiveness of the present actio pian, in terms of the effectiveness of the measures and policies carried out by the various administrative sectors with regard to maintaining biodiversity. Attention will particu[arly he paid to recent changes in specific sectoral activities, and whether these changes are adequate with respect to the scale of the ecoiogical impacts of the activities concerned. The evaluation will also examine the social, economic and other impacts of the measures within the pian, and consider opportunities and measures to impiement the objectives set by the WSSD and the EU for 2010.
This evaluation will aiso provide a basis for the assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the METSO Forest Biodiversity Programme for Southern Finland (see 4.3). The evaluation of the METSO Programme will he carried out separately, and should he completed by the end of2006. It wili not yet be possihle to evaluate the overali adequacy of the new forest biodiversity preservation measures currently being tested within the METSO Programme, 50this assessment wiii focus on the ability of these measures to resolve problems related to the preservation of biodiversity in the sites concerned, and on opportunities to appiy the triat schemes on a wider scale.
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Äppendix
Reports of the working groups supporting the monitoring of
the Nationat Action Pian for Biodiversity in Finland during the period2002—2004, and their pians of action for 2005.