Author: omikron

New contract entitled “Continuous Support Consultant for the Implementation of Measures 125B, 224, 226 and 277 of the Rural Development Program 2007-2013” signed between OMIKRON SA and the Managing Authority of the Rural Development Program of Greece 2007-2013.

OMIKRON SA undertook, following a request for tenders from the Managing Authority of the “Rural Development of Greece 2007-2013” Program, along with another company, the implementation of the project “Continuous Support Consultant for the Implementation of Measures Bodies 125B, 224, 226 and 277 of the Rural Development Program 2007-2013 ”.

The contract was signed on 29/11/2013 with the Managing Authority, and the project duration is 24 months with a total budget of 60,000 €. The company is responsible for 50% of the project's implementation.

Essentially the project deals with the implementation of Bodies Implementation (Special Secretariat for Forests / Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change), monitoring of the implementation of measures 125B, 224, 226 and 227 and supporting the correct implementation under the relevant rules of funding.

The consultant during the project will also provide specialized services to Implementing Bodies, which can deal with technical issues, project management issues, instituting various actions and adaptations.

OMIKRON SA undertook, following a request for tenders from the Department of Environmental Management of the Department of Environmental Planning (Directorate General of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change) in collaboration with other companies, the implementation of the project entitled “Horizontal technical and scientific coordination of surveillance and assessment studies of the conservation status of species and habitats in Greece and synthetic assessment of results”.

The contract was signed on 02-01-2014 with the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change and the project duration is 26 months with a budget of 900.000 €. The company is responsible for 33% of the project's implementation.

The project is implemented as a response to the obligations deriving from Directives 92/43 / EEC and 2009/147 / EC. The implementation will help strengthen the environmental protection of habitat types and species of Community interest, both at national and European level.

The company has undertaken the following:

1. The processing and mapping of spatial information and the development of databases for: (a) the monitoring and assessment of conservation status data that will result from the Supervision Projects of habitat types and species of flora and fauna, (b) Monitoring of the entire range of literature data. The specialized databases developed by our company are following the obligations deriving from Directives 92/43 / EEC and 2009/147 / EC, as well as the INSPIRE Directive, and have been designed in constant collaboration with the Managing Authority and the involved partners.

2. The assessment, coordination and counseling on scientific and technical issues related to the eight individual thematic surveillance programs of species and flora and fauna species being carried out in Greece. Also, the company will provide scientific documentation and specialized issues regarding those thematic programs.

OMIKRON SA undertook, following a request from tenders from the National Cadastre and Mapping Agency SA in collaboration with other companies, the implementation of the project entitled “Development of a large-scale infrastructure (1: 5000) spatial data of natura protected land areas «NATURA 2000» in 94 pSCI and 67 SPA areas in Greece (Study N1-01) ”.

The contract was signed on 01-04-2014 with the National Cadastre and Mapping Agency SA and the project duration is 20 months with a total budget of 900.000 €. The company is responsible for 50% of the project's implementation.

The purpose of the project is to precisely identify the external boundaries of the terrestrial areas of the NATURA 2000 network, namely Community Importance Areas (SCIs) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) and to update, describe and delineate terrestrial habitat types in the SCIs based on high precision (LSO) and 1: 5000 color orthographies of EKXA SA and field work.