1. Funding: STEER – INTELLIGENT ENERGY EUROPE (IEE) Grant Agreement IEE/10/290/SI2.589420 Full title: ECOSTARS Europe Acronym: ECOSTARS Project start date: June 2011 End date: May 2014 www.ecostars-europe.eu Funding: STEER – INTELLIGENT ENERGY EUROPE (IEE) Grant Agreement IEE/10/290/SI2.589420 Full title: ECOSTARS Europe Acronym: ECOSTARS Project start date: June 2011 End date: May 2014 www.ecostars-europe.eu Update on ECOSTARS-ZERO proposal (15 minutes) Project Management Group 4 | Parma, Italy| Presented by: Mark Fell 04/06/2012

2.  Concept  Challenges  Level of interest  Key points on bid  Next steps Agenda Points

3.  Continuation \ Expansion \ New schemes  Taking ECOSTARS to new member states  Focus on urban freight fleets  Programme of regular local scheme workshops to share best practice and provide cooperative working on the development of sustainable freight policy  Embedding ECOSTARS into local freight policy Concept – 2014-2017

4. Work Package Overview WP1 Management WP4 Communications WP2 ECOSTARS Scheme Management WP3 Enhanced Technical Auditor and Scheme Manager Training WP5 Local Scheme Development WP6 Integrating ECOSTARS into local urban freight toolkit WP7 Monitoring & Evaluation

5. Potential scope of schemes Continuation of schemesExpansion of current schemes Potential new schemes South YorkshireRotterdam-The HagueLlubljana, Slovenia EdinburghCantabria-Eusakadi (merger of two schemes) Budapest, Hungary South SwedenPlovdiv, Bulgaria Vilnius-Kaunas, Lithuania La Rochelle, France Perugia, Italy City in Poland (now looks unlikely)

6.  Currently, too many partners, too little money  Limited space for existing schemes - need to make space for new schemes  Difficult budget decisions will need to be made  Targets will need to be ambitious to demonstrate a big impact  Need to provide good evidence of the success of the existing schemes  Need to demonstrate role of ECOSTARS as a driver for other sustainable urban freight measures Challenges

7.  Teleconference for partners on Mon 11 th March  Confirm final consortium members  Agree roles, work packages, target audiences etc  Agree the budget  Administrative information  Letters of support – increasingly important Next steps