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Introduction to the EU Marine Strategy Directive: Background, state of play and perspectives Presented by: Jesper H. Andersen, DHI Water • Environment • Health. Background.

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  1. Introduction to the EU Marine Strategy Directive: Background, state of play and perspectivesPresented by:Jesper H. Andersen, DHI Water • Environment • Health

  2. Background • The European Commission has proposed an ambitious strategy to protect more effectively the marine environment across Europe • The Thematic Strategy on the Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment aims to achieve good environmental status of the EU's marine waters by 2021 and to protect the resource base upon which marine-related economic and social activities depend • The Marine Strategy will constitute the environmental pillar of the future maritime policy the European Commission is working on, designed to achieve the full economic potential of oceans and seas in harmony with the marine environment.

  3. Why a Marine Strategy? • The marine environment matters • Increasing pressures • Need for an integrated approach • Knowledge gaps • Governance problems • Lack of coordination at international level, EU level, regional level and national level • … and this has resulted in not only a strategy, but also a proposal for a EU Marine Strategy Directive …

  4. The Marine Strategy Directive

  5. A proposal for a Marine Strategy Directive • A Marine Strategy Directive will establish European Marine Regions on the basis of geographical and environmental criteria. Each Member State, in close cooperation with the relevant other Member States and third countries within a Marine Region, will be required to develop Marine Strategies for its marine waters. • The Marine Strategies will contain a detailed assessment of the state of the environment, a definition of "good environmental status" at regional level and the establishment of clear environmental targets and monitoring programmes.

  6. Marine Strategy Directive: Towards PoMs • Each Member State will draw up a programme of cost-effective measures (PoMs). Impact assessments, including detailed cost-benefit analysis of the measures proposed, will be required prior to the introduction of any new measure. • Where it would be impossible for a Member State to achieve the level of ambition of the environmental targets set, special areas and situations will be identified in order to devise specific measures tailored to their particular contexts. • The regional marine conventions are foreseen (by some) to act as coordinating bodies

  7. Marine ecoregions in Europe

  8. The Marine Strategy Directive is linked to WFD • The Marine Strategy Directive is (ideally) consistent with the EU Water Framework Directive (from 2000) which requires that surface freshwater and ground water bodies (lakes, streams, rivers, estuaries, coastal waters…) achieve a good ecological status by 2015 and that the first review of the River Basin Management Plan should take place in 2021.

  9. The eco-systems approach to management • The Marine Strategy Directive is intended to be based on the eco-systems approach to management. • Definition: Comprehensive integrated management of human activities based on the best available scientific knowledge about the ecosystem and its dynamics, in order to identify and take action one influences that are critical to the health of this ecosystem

  10. Perspectives • Revised proposal December 2006 • Role of the Parliament? • When is it likely to be adopted?

  11. Thank you for your attention • Any tricky questions?

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