COASTAL & MARINE Pedro Veiga© Coastal & Marine Management in the EU E Projects and Activities U C C Volume 20 • No. 2 2011 Editorial Content Tackling coastal and marine challenges through partnerships Promoting sustainable coasts 3 Dear reader, Towards healthy seas 7 This special issue of “Coastal & Marine” presents some of EUCC’s most important projects and activities. This publication serves as an annual report 2011 and provides an outlook towards 2012. The Coastal & Marine Union - Engaging people 10 EUCC has worked hard to engage in partnerships to become more effective in tackling the many coastal and marine challenges in Europe. Working for biodiversity 13 At a European level, a legal basis was created for the cooperation with ECNC - European Centre for Nature Conservation (Tilburg, NL) and the Baltic activities and challenges 17 Centro Mediterraneo EUCC (Barcelona), through the establishment of the “ECNC Land & Sea Group”. This is a European Economic Interest Managing Baltic Lagoons 23 Grouping (EEIG), a legal status that has been created by the European Economic Community - now EU - to facilitate cooperation (between legal EUCC Tour d’Europe 28 entities established in different member states) in working throughout the community. Together with our experts of the EUCC Marine Team and the Venice EUCC - The Organisation 32 Platform, EUCC is continuing to support the European Commission in the joint implementation process of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). We are especially focusing on the need to reduce marine litter and underwater noise. EUCC has always preferred finding integrated solutions rather than fighting against sectoral threats. We strongly believe that much can be achieved by Colophon following the principles of ICZM, also in the marine domain. EUCC’s magazine 'Coastal & Marine' Special on EUCC Activities At a national level, EUCC’s national branches are still very active, often also in (volume 2011-2) , ISSN 1877-7953 partnership with like-minded organisations. These efforts are also reported © EUCC. Articles cannot be reprinted for commercial use. The copyright of in this publication, this year with a special focus on EUCC-Germany and the all illustrations is reserved. Baltic Sea. Editors: Joana M. Veiga & Alan Pickaver (pages 1-16 & 28-32) and Inga Haller (pages 17 - 27) This brief publication doesn’t allow us to report on all our work. More Design & Layout: Erik Devilee extensive and up-to-date information can be found in our website and in Printed by: Veldhuis Media, The Netherlands our newsletters, please check out in: www.eucc.net. Printed on FSC paper (Reviva Silk) Opinions expressed in Coastal & Marine do not necessarily reflect the official views of EUCC. Cover photo: © Pedro Veiga Photo cover insets: © Joos Versfelt, © Anton Oliehoek, © Stephanie Maack Contributions to EUCC Tour d’ Europe for this EUCC’s Activities Special Issue from: EUCC Baltic - Ramunas Povilanskas, EUCC Med - Carolina Perez, EUCC NL - Hanneke Mesters, EUCC BE - Hannelore Maelfait, EUCC France - Johan Vande Lanotte, Albert Salman, Christine Clus-Auby & Yvonne Battiau, EUCC DE – Gerald Schernewski &Susanne Schumacher, EUCC PT - Francisco Taveira Pinto, EUCC UK - David Green, EUCC President Director General Poland - Kazimierz Rabski, EUCC Denmark - Ida Brøker & Lotte Hjort Jorgensen, EUCC Italy - Pierpaolo Campostrini, EUCC Malta - Foppe Seekles & Marlyse Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC) Cremers, EUCC Black Sea - Mike Mannaart Thanks for support are expressed to EUCC – International (Leiden, NL): The Coastal & Marine Union is dedicated to conserving and maintaining Malou Alkemade, René Beckerschmidt, Patrycja Czerniak, Erik van Dijk, Astrid healthy seas and attractive coasts for both people and nature. Dol, Pedro Fernàndez Bautista, Nico den Hollander, Lotte Kaufman, Marijke EUCC advocates best practice by developing coastal and marine policies, Kooijman, Piet Lansbergen, Ben Overdevest, Iris Pasman, David Renes, Jakkus van der Salm, Ben Spaans, Robert Steenbergen and Cécile Zoetemelk. mobilising experts and stakeholders, providing advice and information, and implementing demonstration projects. Funding acknowledgements are given to: EU Action Programme promoting European NGOs, ERDF - INTERREG IVC (SUSTAIN), Leonardo da Vinci Membership dues for 2012 Programme (CoastLearn Black Sea, Litusgo), INTERREG IVB (IMCORE, BaltCICA), € 24 for Friends of the Coast; FP7 (MARLISCO, Marcom+, Knowseas, GENESIS, VECTORS), DG Environment (OURCOAST, ECONAS), EU NGO Grant (QualityCoast), Dutch Ministry of € 48 (€ 80 / 3 years) for Student and Private Members; Economics Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (Pingers, EAF, Natura2000, € 65 (€ 120 / 3 years) for Professional Members and Non-profit NGOs; ABIPA-C3F), Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the NC-IUCN (EAF), European € 300 (€ 500 / 3 years) for Full Member Organisations; Fisheries Fund and Investment in Sustainable Fisheries (Pingers), Dutch € 1000 for Communication Partners; Postcode Lottery (x-Pierience, Gezonde Zee), Dutch Biodiversity Fund and € 2000 for Programme Partners. 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O.Box 11232, NL-2301 EE Leiden E U Telephone: +31.71.5122900 C 2 E-mail: [email protected], www.eucc.net C Visiting address: Breestraat 89A, Leiden, NL PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE COASTS Measuring Sustainable Development CoastLearn is being updated and adapted to the Black Sea context Humankind is attempting to move towards a sustainable future. To determine whether this is being done successfully, an Indicator The ICZM distance training tool “CoastLearn”, developed since 2001 Set is needed that will measure the Progress towards a sustainable through a series of international projects led by EUCC, will receive future. Unfortunately, sustainability is more of a generalised concept a major boost in the coming two years. The Turkish Leonardo da than a fundamental truth. It does not have defined parameters Vinci Agency has recently approved the project “CoastLearn – Black that can be scientifically determined. Neither is it constant but Sea (CLBS)” led by the Turkish Province of Sinop. This “transfer continuously changing. Indicators that are applied to determine of innovation” project counts on the participaton of the EUCC sustainability today rarely take this into account and, paradoxically, Mediterranean Centre which will be responsible for updating use data that has been precisely measured. Many of the indicators the exisiting English version at www.coastlearn.org and guide are very specific and many measure parameters which are beyond international communication. Five selected CoastLearn modules the sphere of influence of regional/local authorities. (Principles of ICZM, Policy Analysis, Public Participation, Biodiversity Twelve partners are working together, including eight regional and Conservation and Sustainable Tourism) will be updated in order to local authorities under the coordination of EUCC, on this 3-year reflect latest policy developments and practices. project called SUSTAIN funded by the ERDF through the INTERREG IVC programme (www.sustain-eu.net). At the end of the project, it New methodologies such as the Systems Approach Framework is the intention to have a fully implementable policy tool applicable (SAF) developed and tested through the EU FP6 project SPICOSA to all coastal EU Member States that will finally allow sustainability will be introduced, as well as tools to enable cooperation towards to be measured in a meaningful way. This will be done through the sustainability, like as the QualityCoast programme. The project will application of an agreed indicator set to measure sustainability in further adapt these CoastLearn modules to the training systems, the four generally accepted pillars of Economics, Environmental culture, needs and requirements of the Black Sea as well as to their Quality, Governance and Social well-being. environmental, socio-economic and political context, and become The challenge is great. The partners are breaking new ground but they accessible at www.coastlearnblacksea.org in Turkish, Romanian and know that if the effort is not made, success will never be achieved. Bulgarian. The initiative counts on the participation of the EUCC “Our working motto is that if you always continue to do what you Black Sea Coastal Centre in Romania and the Union of Bulgarian have always done in the past, you will always finish up with what you Black Sea Local Authorities. CLBS will be tested in local workshops in already have; nothing will change. To do something new is a great the partner countries. The project will go on until December 2012. risk but to do nothing, is failure. We have embarked upon a journey, we don’t know what the end-point will be but we are confident of By Carolina Perez, EUCC - Mediterranean Centre success” said