Participation in the Eurosilvasur European programme

The Aquitaine Regional Council and the Forestry Centre in Bordeaux selected Mimizan "Communauté de Communes" as an associate partner in the context of the Eurosilvasur European project for interregional cooperation in the field of forestry and timber. This three-year programme whose main partner was the Aquitaine region, brought together a dozen regions in the "South Europe Atlantic Arc" regions.

This programme concerned with sustainable economic development and management allowed the transfer of skills between Member States, improved organisation of the sector, and the establishment of relationships between those up- and down-line in the sector. Among the 6 aspects included in the context of Eurosilvasur, the Mimizan "Communauté de Communes" worked on the development of an Internet economic management site

for the forests in the South of Europe: www.eurosilvasur.net. This is subsequently to form part of a newly created permanent forest observatory that at long term is to be managed by the European Forest Institute.