Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
The challenge
Figure 1: Competition for marine space
Box 1: Dogger Bank
A new approach
The Blue Growth Agenda
Box 2: Blue Growth
Complexities
Scope of the inquiry
The Committee's work
Chapter 2: Knowledge
State of the seas
Box 3: Marine Strategy Framework Directive
(MSFD)
Cumulative impact
Box 4: Cumulative environmental impact on
seabirds
Box 5: North East Atlantic Regional Sea Convention
(OSPAR)
Data availability and analysis
Data availability
Box 6: European Marine Observation and Data
Network
(EMODNet)
Data analysis
Chapter 3: Tensions and opportunities
Objectives and uses of the marine environment
Managing economic uses of the sea
Box 7: The Crown Estate
Box 8: The International Maritime Organization
(IMO)
Marine planning
Progress of marine planning in the UK
Box 9: Marine Management Organisation (MMO)
Regulatory tensions
EU regulatory inconsistency
Box 10: Aligning the CFP and the Habitats
and Birds Directives
Implementation of EU legislation
Multi-level governance of the marine environment
Box 11: North Sea Commission
Chapter 4: Current co-operation
Catalysts for marine co-operation
The Directives
Energy
Figure 2: Approaches to offshore energy grids
Fisheries
Co-operation in practice
BaltSeaPlan and the Baltic Sea Strategy
Wadden Sea Forum
Celtic Sea Partnership
MASPNOSE
Ballast Water Opportunity
Clean North Sea Shipping
Factors and challenges in successful co-operation
Political leadership
Duplication and transparency
Funding
Chapter 5: Future co-operation
The Maritime Spatial Planning Directive:
a driver of future co-operation
Delivery
Pilot projects
Action through existing structures
A North Sea Forum
A North Sea Strategy
Ministerial engagement
List of Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and Declarations
of Interest
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: List of Abbreviations
Appendix 5: Marine Planning in the UK
Appendix 6: Marine Planning by North Sea
Countries
Appendix 7: Ministerial Letter on Fisheries
Discard Plans for 2015
Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/regional-marine-cooperation
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives
(020 7129 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.
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