The Malta Business Bureau, which represents the FOI, the Chamber of Commerce and the MHRA, is organising, jointly with the Malta-EU Information Centre, a half-day seminar on EU funding for environment-related projects on Thursday.

First launched in 1992, LIFE (The Financial Instrument for the Environment) is one of the leading financial spearheads of the EU's environment policy. The LIFE programme aims to finance special projects that support the development of new environment-related initiatives, as well as the implementation, enhancement and technological updating of existing ones.

The LIFE programme consists of three thematic components: 'LIFE Nature', 'LIFE Environment' and 'LIFE - Third countries'. LIFE co-finances environmental initiatives in the EU and certain third countries bordering on the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea, and candidate countries that are eligible for participation in the LIFE programme.

Projects submitted for LIFE co-funding should respond to specific needs. LIFE - Environment Demonstration projects should target land-use development and planning, water management, the reduction of the environmental impact of productive economic activities, waste management initiatives and the reduction of the environment impact of products through an integrated product policy.

Preparatory project themes for 2005 and 2006 are focused on climate change (including greenhouse gas emission trading) and alternative clean technologies.

Participants at this seminar will be addressed by Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment George Pullicino; Emanuel Borg, the national contact point on the LIFE programme; Juan Manuel Revuelta Perez, director general of the Valencia Region Representation office in Brussels; and Orland Bonavia from Nature Trust (Malta), which successfully tapped the LIFE funding programme.

Readers are actively encouraged to attend this seminar, and address any queries to the panel, since there will be time for questions and discussion with floor participation throughout the session.

Although participation is free of charge, prior confirmation of attendance is required. For more information and registrations, contact the MBB via e-mail: info@mbb.org.mt or by fax 2124-5223.

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