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LIFE - Financial Instrument for the Environment

Some of the activities funded under this Programme are similar to those funded by other strands of EU support, as illustrated in the publication

Download: Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2004-2005

This includes reports on the following

• Recycling sheepskin grease: from leather production
• ENERWASTE: power from the anaerobic digestion of animal remains.
• Compost Dissemination: Spreading the word about the value of compost.
• ECOBUS: Using cooking oil to fuel Valencia's city buses.
• MINOS: Integrated and sustainable management of waste from olive oil-making.

The LIFE Programme

LIFE, the Financial Instrument for the Environment, introduced in 1992, is one of the spearheads of the European Union's environmental policy. It co-finances projects in three areas:

• LIFE Nature works to conserve natural habitats and the wild fauna and flora of European Union interest, according to the Birds and Habitats directives, thus supporting implementation of the European Union's nature conservation policy and the Natura 2000 Network.
• LIFE-Environment aims to implement Community policy and legislation on the environment in the European Union and candidate countries. This approach enables demonstration and development of new methods for the protection and the enhancement of the environment.
• LIFE-Third Countries concerns technical assistance activities for promoting sustainable development in third countries. This component of the programme supports the development of environmental management capacities, both for our administrative partners outside the Union and for companies and NGOs in those countries.

LIFE is open to all EU countries, some candidate countries (currently Romania) and some third countries bordering the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea.

Current Programme 2005-2006 - calls for proposals and further funding closed

The deadlines for the submission of proposals under the current LIFE III programme, which finishes at the end of 2006, have expired. There will be no further call under the current LIFE III programme.

New Programme - LIFE+ - Proposed

A new financial support programme for environmental policy, LIFE+, was proposed by the Commission in September 2004 and is being discussed by the Council and European Parliament, may provide future opportunities for funding.

LIFE+ would run from 2007-2013, in accordance with the 'Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Financial Instrument for the Environment (LIFE+)'. At a meeting in Brussels in December 2005, the Council agreed to the basic principles underlying the Commission's proposals. However, it has requested greater prominence to nature and biodiversity and provision for the financing of certain environmental technology projects, when they are not eligible for financing under other Community financial instruments.

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• LIFE Office / European Commission - LIFE Programme BELGIUM