Marine and Coastal Zones
- 2011: Marine Environmental Governance: towards the sustainable use of EU Seas
- 2010:
- 2008: Blue Book on an Integrated Maritime Policy in the EU
- For the main outcomes of the past years, please continue reading the archived pages
2011: Marine Environmental Governance: towards the sustainable use of EU Seas
Co-chairs: Marleen van Rijswick, member of the Dutch Wadden Sea Council (WSC) and Jose Gerreiro council member of the Chair of the Portuguese National Council on Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS)
Work plan, outcomes and activities 2011:
The WG plans to prepare a WG Statement on "Marine Environmental Governance: towards the sustainable use of EU Seas". It will focus on the challenge of integrating Marine Spatial Planning, ICZM, Marine Conservation and Fisheries Policy in the context of the EU Maritime Policy, aiming to pursue a policy of sustainable use of the seas.
Prof. Marleen van Rijswick, new member of the Wadden Sea Council (WSC, NL) is succeding Fred Fleurke as co-chair of the WG. The EEAC would like to thank prof. Fleurke, whose term as vice-chair of the WSC ended last year, for his continuous effort as co-chair of the WG during the last years.
The DG Environment launched an online consultation on future ICZM policies (Integrated Coastal Zone Management) and MSP (Marine Spatial Planning) as follow-up to the 2002 EU Recommendation on ICZM (2002/413/EC). The responses to the consultation will feed into an impact assessment report and possible proposals for new EU action by the end of 2011. The WG or individual councils might give This is the same impact assessment as informed earlier, when the WG Marine was invited to participate in a stakeholder consultation and one-day meeting in May. The overall impact assessment (IA) is fed by some specific studies. One of these is to "examine options for coastal information systems to assist effective ICZM implementation". DG Environment invited the WG Marine to participate as stakeholder in the process. Co-chair José Guerreiro attended the key meeting on 6 May in Marseille.
2010:
Co-chairs: Frederik Fleurke, vice-chair of the Dutch Wadden Sea Council (WSC) and Jose Gerreiro council member of the Chair of the Portuguese National Council on Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS)
Outcomes 2010:
On 14 October, the WG met in Bruges, finalising the topics of 2010 and presenting the work plan for 2011.
On 12 March, the WG Marine held a kick-off meeting initiated by CNADS in Lisbon. For this meeting the WG chairs already prepared two papers:
one paper deals with sustainable land use in coastal zones, which serves as a contribution to the Annual Statement 2010;
- the other one deals with the EU Marine Protected Areas and trans-boundary cooperation Network.
The WG discussed among others three topics it will address:
- the analysis of the governance of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the problems concerning its implementation;
- together with this, the WG will focus on spatial planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management;
- finally, the WG will also focus on the progress made within the topic of Maritime Protected Areas and the European Fishery Policy.
Consecutively, a check-list with questions concerning the activities on Marine Spatial Planning was sent to EEAC members, where they were asked to briefly assess marine spatial planning initiatives and processes in their country. Over summer, the answers will be analysed and discussed at the next WG meeting, which will take place in September in Amsterdam, or at the EEAC Annual Conference in October.
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2008: Blue Book on an Integrated Maritime Policy in the EU
Chair: Emanuel Gonçalves, Portuguese Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS)
Main outcome 2008
The WG assessed how their input to the Green Paper on a Future Maritime Policy for the European Union was embodied in the "Blue Book" on an Integrated Maritime Policy in the European Union.
- On 5 May: The WG Marine met in May in Lisbon, kindly hosted by the CNADS. The meeting set the WG's main strategic lines of action for selected marine policy processes, such as the implementation of the Marine Strategy Directive. The WG Marine analysed the latest developments in the EU Maritime Policy. The WG also assessed the potential consequences of the newly created DG MARE. The WG decided to look into the correlation between the Marine Strategy and the Water Framework Directives.
- On 19 May: a WG representative attended a stakeholder meeting on the EU Marine Strategy.
- The WG met in Bordeaux in October 2008 and has since then been considering a solution for chair and a work plan.
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