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
- Recreation and Tourism;
- Management and development plan Wadden Sea;
- Water Framework Directive;
- Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan.
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Background and mission
Establishment
The Wadden Sea Council was founded in 2002 as the successor of the Wadden Advisory Council. The Wadden Sea Council has its legal basis in a 2002 Act of Parliament (Wet op de Raad voor de Wadden).
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Mission
The Council provides authorities with advice related to the natural importance of the Wadden Sea. The common thread running through all the advice given is the conservation of the Wadden region as a natural reserve as laid down in the spatial planning decision for the Wadden Sea.
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Council Members
The Wadden Sea Council has 15 Council Members who operate independently and they are experts in one of the different policy fields concerning the Wadden Region. The members have been reappointed until 31 December 2010.
| Chairman Vacant |
The appointment of the new chair is expected after the summer break of 2008 |
| Vice-Chairman Prof. Dr. Fred Fleurke |
Acting chairman as from 1
April 2008 Public Management |
| Members Prof. Dr. Jan Bakker |
Nature Management |
| Rindert Dankert | Rural Development and Agriculture |
| Prof. Dr. Henk Folmer | Relations Ecology-Economy |
| Dr. Wim Groenendijk | (Sustainable) Energy |
| Prof. Dr. Victor de Jonge | Ecology |
| José Kimkes | Social-Economics and Industry |
| Martinus Kosters | Recreation and Tourism |
| Vacant | Communication |
| Johan Nooitgedagt | Wadden Fisheries |
| Dr. Elisabeth Ruijgrok | Perception Value |
| Meindert Schroor | Human Sciences |
| Susanna Twickler | Law |
| Pim Visser | Social-economics and Industry |
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Staff Members
The Wadden Sea Council has a secretariat with around four 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. For this reason the meetings of the Wadden Sea Council are public and the council is open to outside views. 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.
At present the Working Groups are the following:
- Working Group Recreation and Tourism;
- Working Group Biomass;
- Working Group Water Framework Directive.
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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. In 2008, the meetings are scheduled for: 20 January, 5 March, 23 April, 11 June, 3 September, 8 October, 12 November and 17 December.
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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 an member 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.
- 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);
- Advice 2005/03 on "Natural Authority", concerning the administration of the Wadden Sea, together with the Public Administration Council, (December 2005);
- Advice 2005/01 concerning the trilateral cooperation and the building of wind farms in the North Sea. Raad vor de Wadden,(March 2005);
- Advice 2003/02 concerning the Wadden Sea as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area. Raad voor de Wadden, (April 2003);
- Advice 2003/01 concerning sustainable fishing in the Wadden Sea, (April 2003).
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Last update: 6 June 2008