MARATLAS

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MARATLAS

• Anne-France WOESTYN
• DG MARE.C1
• Brussels, 5 June 2009

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INTEGRATED MARITIME POLICY Objectives

• Maximising the sustainable use of the oceans
  seas
• Building a knowledge and innovation base on which
  to further develop
• Delivering the highest quality of life in coastal
  regions
• Promoting Europes leadership in international
  maritime affairs
• Raising visibility for Maritime Europe

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INTEGRATED MARITIME POLICY Actions

• Sea-basins initiatives
• Outermost regions communication, Arctic
  communication, Baltic Sea Strategy, Mediterranean
  Sea communication
• Horizontal initiatives
• Integrated maritime governance
• Marine knowledge (MARATLAS, EMODNET)
• Maritime surveillance
• Maritime spatial planning

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MARATLAS - Objectives

• Aim from the IMP Blue Book
• Educational tool
• Means of highlighting our common maritime
  heritage
• Objectives
• Geo-based communication to public and
  stakeholders
• Background info on the various dimensions of the
  seas
• Main European policies and data for the seas
• MARE/FISH policies, initiatives, facts and news
• Complementary to current website and publications

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MARATLAS - Approach

• Web-based, dynamic and public
• Mainly maps, also texts and pictures
• European scope, including OR
• Sea basin approach, including coasts, waters
• Multi-sectors multi-themes
• Multi-lingual (EN, FR, DE)

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MARATLAS - Thematic content

• Science
• Hydrography, geology, chemistry, biology,
  sea-bed habitat map
• Policy and Governance
• Jurisdictions, law, spatial planning,
  cooperation agreements
• Economy
• Fishery, energy, transport, extraction, telecom,
  tourism, research
• Population
• Settlement, employment, demography, education
• Environment
• Protected areas, endangered and alien species,
  (radioactive) waste dumping, former ammunition
  deposition zones, marine pollution, accidents
• Culture
• Historical lighthouses, coastal underwater
  archaeology, submerged wrecks, maritime museum

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Timing
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Content Example (1)
Slovenia Member States of the EU Year of EU
entry 2004 Political system Republic Capital
city Ljubljana Total area 20 273 km²
Population 2 million Currency euro Official
EU language Slovenian More General country
Fact sheet Maritime Policy Facts
Figures Maritime Policy Governance
Fiche Fisheries Facts sheet TACs and quotas
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Content Examples (2)

• Transport Ferry roads, ports

• Fisheries Number of vessels per countries

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Content examples (3)

• Demography population density

• Employment entreprises

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POTENTIAL FURTHER ATLAS DEVELOPMENT

• Internal tool for
• policy conception, analysis, reporting
• Public tool for
• Marine and maritime education programmes
• Job market for maritime professionals

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Relation with other web-based initiatives

• Google Ocean
• UN Atlas of the seas
• WISE Marine
• (Water Information System for Europe Marine)

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Thank your for your attention!

• More information
• http//ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs
• Contact
• anne-france.woestyn_at_ec.europa.eu