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| − | The European Commission has proposed an ambitious strategy to protect more effectively the marine environment across Europe.
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| − | The Thematic Strategy on the '''Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment''' was adopted by the European Commission on the 24th of October of 2005. Its roots are in the [[Sixth Environmental Action Programme]] adopeted by the Council and Parliament for the period of 2002-2012.
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| − | The Marine Strategy 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.
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| − | European Marine Regions have been stablished 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. | |
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| − | 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.
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| − | Each Member State will draw up a programme of cost-effective measures. Impact assessments, including detailed cost-benefit analysis of the measures proposed, will be required prior to the introduction of any new measure.
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| − | '''Relation with the coastal zone'''
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| − | '''Relation with ICZM'''
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| − | '''Relation with other EU policies'''
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| − | * The Marine Strategy will constitute the environmental pillar of the future maritime policy the European Commission is working on (see [[Green Paper for a EU Maritime Policy]]), designed to achieve the full economic potential of oceans and seas in harmony with the marine environment, which is one of the European Commission's strategic objectives for 2005-2009.
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| − | * The Marine Strategy is consistent with the [[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.
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| − | * Regional Conventions for the protection of the European Seas
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| − | ** North-East Atlantic (1992)
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| − | ** Baltic Sea Area (1992)
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| − | ** Black Sea (1992)
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| − | ** Mediterranean (1995)
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