EUMETSAT Relations with SEE-IPA beneficiaries countries

1. EUMETSAT Relations with SEE-IPA beneficiaries countries Vincent Gabaglio International Relations Officer

2. 26 Member States & 5 Cooperating States Member States CZECH REPUBLIC CROATIA AUSTRIA BELGIUM FINLAND GERMANY FRANCE DENMARK GREECE HUNGARY ITALY IRELAND NETHERLANDS NORWAY LUXEMBOURG LATVIA ROMANIA SLOVAK REPUBLIC POLAND PORTUGAL SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SPAIN SLOVENIA Cooperating States UNITED KINGDOM TURKEY BULGARIA ESTONIA ICELAND SERBIA LITHUANIA

3. SEE & IPA countries - Members and Cooperating states • Members States • Croatia (since 2006) and Turkey (since 1996) are EUMETSAT Member States • They fully contribute to all EUMETSAT activities • Cooperating States • Serbia is a Cooperating State (since 2009) • For SEE (but non-IPA countries): • Member States: Greece, Romania, Slovenia • Cooperating States: Bulgaria

4. DAWBEE initiative (for RA-VI non-EUMETSAT Member and Cooperating states, but with their support ! )

5. Background • EUMETSAT Council, in June 2008, recommended to “promote operational access to EUMETSAT data in WMO RA-VI countries non member of EUMETSAT”. • WMO RA-VI Strategic Plan recommends to “capitalise on RA-VI assets and to encourage broader use of outputs of ECMWF, EUMETSAT, EUMETNET,… • EUMETSAT organised Information Days in Ukraine and Montenegro in May and June 2009, gathering most of RA-VI countries not Member or Cooperating States of EUMETSAT.

6. Outcome of Information Days • As a result of these Information Days: • All participants expressed interest in getting access to EUMETSAT data and products; • Some participants requested support from EUMETSAT to get their EUMETCast receiving stations in place • Some participants requested training in use of EUMETSAT data and products, but also in maintenance of EUMETCast receiving stations • Following this project, EUMETSAT initiate the “Data Access for Western Balkan and Eastern European countries” – DAWBEE – project. • The DAWBEE project is implemented in cooperation with WMO Secretariat.

7. Objective of the DAWBEE project • To ensure that, by mid-2011, 11 NMHS of RA-VI (from non-EUMETSAT Member and Cooperating States) have functioning EUMETSAT data reception equipment and use EUMETSAT data in their operational activities • To create expertise in some of these countries to ensure maintenance of reception equipment (network of experts) • Target NMHS are: • Six RA-VI Eastern European NMHS:Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. • Five RA-VI Western Balkan NMHS:Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo (under UN Security Council Resolution 1244), FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro. • Support from: Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Ukraine • Implementation timeframe: January 2010 – June 2011

8. DAWBEE main outcomes • Eleven NMHS have operational access to EUMETSAT data and products (8 stations installed, 3 to be installed) • Through EUMETCast, NMHS receive in real-time numerous data and products (not only EUMETSAT) relevant for various applications, including DRR • Network of users of the DAWBEE stations is now existing and experts can an interact among themselves (ownership)

9. Suggestions for capacity development in IPA beneficiaries of South East Europe

10. Suggestions • DAWBEE has provided a first important step: access to data • Beyond access to data, need for : • Further training on the use of data • Improved processing capabilities (for all types of data) • Better integration of satellite data into NMHS operational processes is needed in some countries • EUMETSAT could envisage supporting part of the implementation through provision of technical expertise/training

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