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Europolitics COMPANY LAW LISBON TREATY EU/SOUTH KOREA ECJ: No general principle of Top appointments likely EU and Seoul initial equality of shareholders Page 4 postponed until December Page 9 free trade deal Page 10 EUROPOLITICS The European affairs daily Friday 16 October 2009 N° 3840 37th year FOCUS MARITIME POLICY EU executive sets out priorities EU Bookshop for next five years digital library By Anne Eckstein At the end of the first two years of work, 56 actions out of the 65 planned in the All publications by European Union’s Two years after the launch of the Inte- action plan accompanying the blue paper institutions – including histori- grated Maritime Policy (IMP), the Euro- have been launched or completed (most cal archives and documents often pean Commission is assessing its actions of them Commission or Council acts) requested but out of print – are and setting milestones for the policy’s and nine actions have been the subject now available for downloading from future. In a communication adopted of various initiatives even if no formal a single site - www.bookshop. on 15 October - a ‘message’ really from document has yet been adopted. As for europa.eu/eubookshop/index. Commissioner Joe Borg (fisheries and the number of achievements from this action?request_locale=EN. Some first phase that have 12 million scanned pages in more than allowed the insti- 110,000 EU publications are available tutions (Commis- for free from the EU Bookshop digital sion and Council), library. The library is being launched member states and at the Frankfurt Book Fair, on 16 Octo- the affected regions ber, and offers all documents put out to put in place ade- by the Publications Office on behalf quate structures, the of the EU institutions, agencies and Commission also other bodies since 1952. points to the adop- More than 370 EU institutional tion of instruments, authors are represented, as well as such as the road around 50 languages, including all map for planning a official EU languages and Russian © CE maritime area (2008) and Chinese. New publications will Borg’s ’message’ to the next Commission defining ten main be added at a rate of around 1,600 maritime affairs) to the next Commis- principles to be respected, the Baltic a year. sion - six strategic orientations are laid Sea strategy (2009, “tailor-made” solu- The Bookshop digital library should out, with more details to be given in tion for a region), support for integrated not be confused with Europe- 2010 as to how they will be developed. coastal zone management (ICZM) ana, launched in November 2008, The package also comprises a proposal and advances in integrating maritime which presents digital documents on the integration of maritime surveil- surveillance. – books, films, photos and archives lance (sharing data and instruments) The “orientation for the future” sec- - from the 27 national libraries and a communication on the policy’s tion of the communication stresses (www.europeana.eu). Users will be international dimension, underlining economic growth, jobs and sustainable able to access EU Bookshop content the need for the EU to express itself development. It underlines the need to via Europeana, however. with a single voice or at least in a coher- explore possible synergies and to link ent way on the international stage of IMP more with EU policies on energy maritime affairs1. (energy produc- (continued on page 6) Sold by subscription only © reproduction strictly prohibited in any language www.europolitics.info EUROPOLITICSTHE EUROPEAN AFFAIRS DAILY The centrepiece of EU news www.europolitics.info ❏ Yes, I would like to subscribe to EUROPOLITICS daily: ❏ 6 MONTHS, 112 issues (paper version) + unlimited online access at the price of €890 (1). HELPGETTING US GET TO TO KNOW KNOW YOU YOU BETTER… BETTER… ❏ 1 YEAR, 223 issues (paper version) + unlimited online access at the price of €1,700 (1). 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