20^th Meeting of the

Maritime Policy Member State Experts Group

20 April 2015 09:30 – 17:00

Venue:

European Commission - Directorate general Agriculture and Rural development Rue de la Loi, 130 – Bruxelles

Meeting room L130A

minutes of meeting

agenda

09:30 Welcome by Chair

Maritime Policy Work Programme 1h

• Work Programme 2016: outlook
• Update on the implementation of the IMP Work Programmes 2014 & 2015

work programme 2015

work programme 2014

annex to 2014 work programme

presentation from EASME

• Ex post evaluation of the IMP Transitional Financial Programme (Regulation 1255/2011) and of two preparatory MSP actions

evaluation of Transitional Financial Programme executive summary and abstract

evaluation study - volume I

evaluation study - volume II

Maritime Policy – Sea basin update

• The Maritime Policy of Poland up to 2020 (with a perspective up to 2030) – Mrs Anna Latuszek, Maritime Transport & Shipping Safety Department, Ministry of Infrastructure and Development

presentation from Poland

11:00 Coffee break

• Member States / Sea basin update – The Netherlands / North Sea – Mr. Abspoel Senior policy advisor North Sea NL government

presentation from Netherlands

Maritime Policy – Events

• European Maritime Day 2015 Piraeus
• Union for Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Blue Economy

UfM ministerial roadmap

UfM ministerial presentation

UfM Ministerial concept

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

Maritime Policy – Policy implementation

• Ocean governance
• Implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning

maritime spatial planning support strategy

• Research and innovation in support of Blue Growth – State of play in Horizon 2020

presentation from DG-RTD

• Measuring the maritime economy
  • Current state of play

method for estimating size of blue economy and first results

• EU methodology for collection of economic data
• EU Maritime Security Strategy
• Progress in the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive – DG Environment

presentation from DG Environment