First draft of implementation plan

A first version of the Implementation Plan will be released at month 32 in order to have the time to discuss it and further develop via contributions from all the relevant groups The aim is to involve all stakeholders and interest groups identified under WP3 from the beginning achieving coownership and codesign of the Implementation Plan The ultimate goal is to have mature actions that are ready to compete for funding at a basin level at the end of the project In the Implementation Plan attention will be paid to avoid overlap with existing initiatives or projects and to focus on actions from which a high added value is expected in the Black Sea region It will also explore and provide recommendations on the most suitable cooperation mechanisms and tools to implement each particular action The specific nature and needs of each action will be considered in link with task 22 and also with WP3 Bilateral activities will be defined leading to multilateral cooperation in the Black Sea There will be two drafts of the Implementation Plan at month 32 and at the end on month 45 The first draft will be prepared by project partners in order to facilitate the next phase for all stakeholders The initial draft will be presented in the following HLB meeting with all stakeholders participating and actively contributing From then onwards and until the end of the project stakeholder involvement will be continuous