Transcript EU Marine Strategy

ICZM in Europe
European Commission - DG Environment
Jon Parker
Unit D.3 Cohesion and environmental impact assessment
2007 renewed focus
on integration …
EU Maritime Policy « Blue Paper »,
October 2007
• holistic approach to policy
making and implementation
• good governance
• knowledge based approach
• integration across land-sea
boundary :
“Coasts” are integral part of
Maritime Policy
Same rationale underlying EU
ICZM Recommendation of 2002
Evaluation of the EU ICZM
Recommendation
 Good outturn (14/20
Member States; 70%
coastline)
 Progress 2000-2005;
but mature ICZM still
rarely observed
 Reports show varying
scope and nature of
actions
 Further support to
implementation needed
 No need for a new or
different instrument
 Approach and
Principles of EU ICZM
Recommendation
remain valid
Evaluation of the EU ICZM
Recommendation
 Lack of common
understanding of
principles of ICZM
 Knowledge basis –
use and sharing of
information
 Continued need for
coherent EU
policies/legislation
 More systematic
comparative analysis
and experience
exchange
 Strengthening the
knowledge basis and
use of information
 Maritime Policy offers
platform for coherence
of policies
Priority themes for EU ICZM
 Adaptation to coastal risks and the
impacts of climate change
Keys: preventative, multi-risk approach
long-term/cross-sector approach
integration between prevention and response
 Cooperation in regional seas context,
including marine spatial planning
Build on new Marine Strategy Directive and ICZM
and existing regional seas structures
Outlook for implementation
Mainstreaming of ICZM and Maritime Policy
 “Blue Paper” and action plan proposed by
the Commission (October 2007)
 Guidance for national maritime policies
 Collective learning
 Stakeholder consultation structures and
networking
 Research strategy
 ! Data and information (EMODNET, Atlas of the
seas ...)
Outlook for implementation
 Adaptation to coastal risks and the
impacts of climate change
- White paper on Adaptation to Climate Change (autumn 2008)
- Community Disaster Prevention Strategy (end 2008)
- Study on adaptation and coastal defence costs
- Coastal erosion : CONSCIENCE
 Cooperation in regional seas context,
including marine spatial planning
- Marine Strategy Directive, EU ICZM Recommendation
- Roadmap and preparatory study, exchange of best-practice
- Mediterranean: Protocol ICZM
- Cohesion policy: trans-national cooperation programmes;
“Territorial Cohesion”
Integrated Coastal Zone
Management – Marine
Spatial Planning
Key Challenges
- Strategic, objective led approach
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Shared management of common sea-space (multiuse, instead of mere zoning approach)
Innovation, research to promote more efficient
use of space and to make uses mutually
compatible
Efforts and costs of planning process need to be
paid back in clear benefits to stakeholders (e.g.
reduction of regulatory burden)
- Implementation : mix of instruments
“a plan is only as good as its implementation”
Integrated Coastal Zone
Management – Marine
Spatial Planning
Key Challenges
- Effective nesting of plans
- Coherence between
policies-plans/programmes- implementation
(projects)
across different scales (regional sea>local)
- Achieve a common understanding
(“principles”), to foster effective cross-border
strategies
Thank you