16 th Session of RA VI (Europe) (Helsinki, Finland, 10 – 17 September 2013 ) Outcomes & Progress

1. 16thSession of RA VI (Europe)(Helsinki, Finland, 10 – 17 September 2013)Outcomes & Progress Ivan Čačić • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

2. RECO RA VI 2013 Helsinki Finland ~ 80 participants 35 countries >25 PRs ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

3. 16th Session RA VI 2013 Helsinki Finland > 149 participants 39RA VI countries observers from Canada and USA EUMETNET ECOMET RA VI (Europe) Survey NMHS: Institutional Arrangements Challenges and Priorities ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

4. 16th Session RA VI (Europe) Regional Priorities (Doc.7.2) Coping with issues related to the economic conditions affecting the NMHSs: constant pressure for budget and staff cuts, insufficient qualified personnel, difficulties to maintain and sustain basic functions, due to lack of resources Enhancement of Climate Services - implementation of GFCS at regional and national level Implementation of WIGOS and WIS (noting that WIS implementation has already been in progress), including focus on concrete and urgent needs related to the maintenance and improvement of the observing systems and the quality of observations Enhancement of Services: PWS, DRR/EWS, aviationand related services as well as demonstration and communication of the resulting social and economic benefits, in particular to decision makers / Government Enhancedinternational cooperation and partnership: raising the effectiveness and efficiency of the regional activities, building common position on issues like data policy, commercialization and public/private sector relationships Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

5. New – Old Work Structure The core structure was determined Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 16th Session RA VI (Europe) • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

6. New Work Structure Management Group – composition: President (Croatia) Vice-president (Lithuania) Hy Adviser (Switzerland) PRs: Finland, Germany, Israel, Portugal, Russian Federation, Turkey Chairs and Co-Chairs of WGs Invitation extended to the Chair of ICH/CIS First meeting held on 16 September Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 16th Session RA VI (Europe) • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

7. New Work Structure Working Groups: Technology Development and Implementation (TDI)Chair – Mr Dieter Schroeder, GermanyVice-chair – MrErcanBüyükbas, Turkey Climate and Hydrology (CH) Co-Chair (C) – Ms AnahitHovsepyan, ArmeniaCo-Chair (H) – Mr Dominique Berod, Switzerland (Hy Adviser) Service Delivery and Partnership (SDP)Chair – Mr Axel Thomalla, GermanyVice-chair – Prof AdriaanPerrels, Finland Task teams will be established by 2ndMG meeting on14th-15th May 2014 in Tallinn (parallel to EUMETNET GA) Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 16th Session RA VI (Europe) • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

8. Effectiveness and Efficiency Shorter Sessions – agreed - max. 1 week Improved agenda and action oriented documents More frequent high level events – agreed to hold a Director’s Conference in the middle of intersession period Strong support to the proposed amendments to the General Regulations in order to determine better the role and responsibilities of the RAs – to be submitted to Cg-XVII Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 16th Session RA VI (Europe) • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

9. Effectiveness and Efficiency Recognition of contribution of regional experts – 70 experts awarded Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 16th Session RA VI (Europe) • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

10. Lessons learnt Agenda and documents Documents – action oriented and with clear regional context; information part to be in INFs Better pre-session coordination of documents with departments Actions need to be clearly highlighted PPTs – only if necessary and closely related to documents – to highlight decisions and actions Allocate more time to experts from WGs Innovations Webex/videoconferencing was handled well technically but needs further consideration Need to establish good two-way communication, provide the presentations to interpreters in advance, etc. Engage all Members – work to ensure attendance and engagement Duration of RECO ↗, duration of Session ↘ Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 16th Session RA VI (Europe) • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

11. Progress and Actions after 16th Session RA VI 1st meeting of the RA VI TT on the Regional Operating Plan Geneva, January 2014 Recommended the regional priorities to be incorporated in the SP 2016 – 2019 Made suggestions for changes to the KOs that were included in the draft of the WMO SP 2016 -2019 Decided on the timetable for the work-programme of the TT As soon as the work programmes of the RAVI WGs are ready, the existing RAVI OP will be reviewed what concerns 2014 – 2015. The initial planning for the new OP 2016 – 2019 will also start with the main emphases for RAVI on 2016 – 2017 Planned to have a short meeting in connection with the EC in June 2014 President RA VI communicated the outcomes of the RA VI 16th Session and the TT ROP meeting at the Joint meeting of the PRAs and PTCs, January 2014, and EC WG / SOP, February 2014 After RA VI MG 2 Meeting (Tallinn, 14th-15th May 2014) president will approve RA VI component of the Operating plan 2016 - 2019 on the basis of the compilation of the TT ROP outcomes by the WMO Office for Europe Helsinki 10 – 17September 2013 16th Session RA VI (Europe) • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

12. Tallinn 14 – 15May 2014 • 2nd Meeitong of the RA VI Management Deoup • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

13. Tallinn 14 – 15May 2014 • 2nd Meeitong of the RA VI Management Deoup • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

14. Main achievements outlined in the RA VI president’s report Re-established RA VI Management Group slightly enlarged its membership for a better geographical balance (enlargement with Turkey and Portugal) On-going consultations on the procedures to the establishment of a WMO Office for Commonwealth of Independent States countries Establishmentof the RA VI Hydrology Forum as a platform for hydrologists within the Region - promoting the recognition of WMO in the field of water Progress in implementation of the regional elements of the GFCS successful conduction of several subregional RCOFS (South-East European COF - SEECOF, the North-Eurasian COF - NEACOF and the Mediterranean COF - MEDCOF) expansion of the RCOF-s to other geographical areas, such as the Polar and the Arabic areas Progress in conductinganalysis of the socio-economic benefits Successfulimplementation of the second phase of the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) project for Western Balkans and Turkey Regional Association would reserve the right to request one additional seaton the Executive Council, should other Regions propose an increase Geneva 18 – 27June 2014 Preperation of RA VI for 66th EC • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014

15. Thank you • ICSEED-13, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 – 29 April 2014