Steering Committee recommendations to Documentation and Information Network

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Steering Committee recommendations to
Documentation and Information Network (St.
Petersburg, October 2001)

• Identify a coordinator for the Network

Frank Begemann (Head of IBV, Bonn, Germany), as
of January 2002
2
Steering Committee recommendations to
Documentation and Information Network (St.
Petersburg, October 2001)

• Use part of the available funds for the
  participation of non-EU national focal persons
  in the EPGRIS project

8,200 US for ECP/GR - Non-EU focal persons
(EPGRIS meetings 2002 and 2003)
IPGRI will cover the cost for other Non-ECP/GR
focal persons
3
Steering Committee recommendations to
Documentation and Information Network (St.
Petersburg, October 2001)

• Not to convene a full network meeting,
  considering that EPGRIS project is already
  offering ample opportunities to meet

4
Steering Committee recommendations to
Documentation and Information Network (St.
Petersburg, October 2001)

• The Secretariat to approach the network to
  request additional proposals, to use
  non-allocated funds (37,000 US). Take into
  consideration a proposal made by H. Knüpffer for
  a meeting of European flora experts on taxonomy
  standardization

5
Steering Committee recommendations to
Documentation and Information Network (St.
Petersburg, October 2001)
Approved by the Steering Committee (April 2002)

• US 1,000 help to Ribes/Rubus DB Vilnius,
  Lithuania

• At least US 21,000 EPGRIS related support to
  non EU countries (staff exchanges/ equipment)

• Remaining (up to US 15,000 elements of a
  workshop on taxonomy strandardization (2003)

6
Steering Committee recommendations to
Documentation and Information Network (St.
Petersburg, October 2001)

• Reconfirm the complementarity between the EPGRIS
  project objective (passport data) and the Central
  Crop Databases activities (collection and
  analysis of characterization/evaluation data)

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Documentation and Information Network
Proposal from F. Begemann to hold a meeting on
the relationship NI ECCDB EURISCO, bringing
together NI-focal points and ECCDB managers

• Jointly with final meeting of EURISCO?

• Use of small technical meetings ECP/GR funds?
  (30,000 US)

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Documentation and Information Network
Proposal from Cereal Network Coordinating Group
(H. Knüpffer) for a small meeting on handling and
analysis of evaluation data in CCDBs, inviting
experts in biometrics and statistics