Strengthening the uptake of EU funds for Natura 2000.

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The objective of this contract is to assist the Commission and the Member States in ensuring good understanding of funding opportunities for Natura 2000 under the next multiannual financial framework among all stakeholders, promoting investments in Natura 2000 as an element of sustainable growth and development and facilitating access to information about financing opportunities with a view to helping ensure better uptake of funds for Natura 2000 in the next financing period. This objective is to be achieved by completing the following tasks:task 1: updating the 'Financing Natura 2000 Guidance Handbook';task 2: developing a toolkit to assess the consistency between the PAFs and the operational programmes;task 3: organising seminars in the Member States to provide information on the possibilities of financing investments in the Natura 2000 in the specific national context.