Wadden Sea Council
Raad voor de Wadden
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Establishment and Mission
Council Members and Staff Members
Current and Future Activities
Present and Future Priority Fields
The priorities of 2011 are placed under the overall strategic priority “scarcity and transition”:
- The Wadden Sea within an international perspective
- Maritime Strategy and the Integrated Coastal Management
- Combination of advisory tasks in the Wadden Regi
Continued priorities of 2010:
- Output control Wadden Fund;
- Energetic self-support Wadden islands.
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Background and mission
Establishment
The Wadden Sea Council was instituted in 2003 by virtue of the Wadden Sea Council Act. The Wadden Sea Council began its second term of office in January 2007.
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Mission
The Wadden Sea Council provides solicited and unsolicited advice on matters of general importance to the Wadden Sea region. Much of the advice is intended for the government and is issued to the Ministers and State Secretaries of Infrastructure and the Environment and Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. The Dutch House of Representatives is another important target group that receives advice. The Council also advises the Wadden Sea provinces and the municipal authorities in the area.
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Council Members
The Wadden Sea Council has 5 Council Members who operate independently and they are experts in one of the different policy fields concerning the Wadden Region. As of January 2011 a new council has been appointed.
| Chair Margreeth de Boer |
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| Vice-Chairman vacant |
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| Members Prof. Dr. Jan Bakker |
Coastal Conservation Ecology - University of Groningen |
| Prof. dr. ir. Han Brezet | Lecturer at teh TU Delft - Faculty of Industrial Design |
| Prof. dr. M.A. (Rien) Herber | Prof. in Geo-Energy at the University of Groningen |
| Prof. mr. H.F.M.W. (Marleen) van Rijswick | Lecturer European and national maritime law - University of Utrecht |
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Staff Members
The Wadden Sea Council has a secretariat with around five scientific staff and two administrative staff. Mrs. Jacoba Westinga is the Head of Office.
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Work Style
Tasks of the Council
In order to ensure that support for the Council's advice is as broad as possible, the Wadden Sea Council holds regular consultations with the ministers involved, with provincial and municipal administrators, with public officials, etc. The Wadden Sea Council has also built up a network of contacts abroad, typically with advisory bodies in Germany and Denmark.
The Wadden Sea Council feels that contact with the inhabitants and users of the area is very important to its advisory activities and their support. The Wadden Sea Council therefore keeps contact with the various (social) organisations that are involved in the Wadden Sea Area.
It also pays an annual working visit to the Wadden region to make local enquiries about important developments in the region and to speak with the inhabitants and users of the region.
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Substructure and Working Groups
The recommendations of the Wadden Sea Council are prepared by working groups. Typically, there is a working group for each piece of advice. Council members form these working groups.
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Council Meetings
The Wadden Sea Council meets approximately nine times a year to issue an advice, which has been prepared in working groups. For 2011, the meetings are not yet scheduled.
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Type of Advice
The Council delivers around 70% of the advice upon formal request and the remaining 30% is issued following its own initiative. The Council advices on legislation as well as on policy issues.
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Activities in the EEAC Network
The Council joined EEAC in 2003 and it is co-chair of the Working Group Marine.
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List of Selected Publications
You can search for the full list of policy advice in our Search Engine which also includes the titles in English of publications available in original language only.
- Waddenfonds, Rijk of Regio (Wadden Fund, national or regional management) (December 2010)
- Afsluitdijk vanuit Waddenperspectief (A Wadden perspective on the Afsluitdijk) (November 2010)
- Eems-estuarium, van een gezamenlijk probleem naar een gezamenlijke oplossing (The Ems estuary, from a common problem to a joint solution) (October 2010)
- Een Waddenzeewaardig bestuur ( Good governance in the Wadden Sea) (July 2010)
- Report Level Playing Field (January 2010, pdf.)
- Vision and focus Wadden Sea Fund (May 2009 - English Summary, pdf.)
- Advisory document on the Wadden Sea Plan (February 2009)
- The Wadden Sea Region and Climate Change (January 2009)
- The Wadden Region as an experimental field for biomass, Summary (November 2008);
- Identity as trumps: Wadden Sea landscape full of surprises (May 2008);
- Fresh-Salt; opportunities of restoration of fresh-salt transitions in the Wadden region (March 2008);
- Harvesting wind with eyecatchers? (January 2008);
- Natural Fishing in the Wadden Sea (November 2007)
- Nature boundaries for daily use (June 2007);
- Sustainable development of marine potential; a vision on an integrated maritime policy in Europe and the Netherlands (May 2007);
- Evaluation first session Wadden Sea Council 2003-2006 (2007);
- Natural Authority: An administrative model for the Wadden Sea (December 2005);
- Natural Authority, An administrative model for the Wadden Sea (December 2005);
- Trilateral for the future: Towards a stronger trilateral partnership (March 2005);
- Advice concerning the Wadden Sea as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (April 2003);
- Advice concerning sustainable fishing in the Wadden Sea (April 2003).
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