An overview of local and regional best practice in the field of integrated maritime policy in terms of EU co-financed projects, with a focus on the following areas: marine environment; integrated coastal area management; spatial planning and transport; sustainable growth and jobs in fisheries and other sectors (including successful clusters); fostering technology innovations. Using this overview as a basis, we aim to formulate suggestions for future guidelines for maritime policy and funding in the EU from local and regional perspective.

P R O G R A M M E

Wednesday 19, 14:30-18:30

Room: Sala 1 (Laboral)

SESSION I

CHAIR: Michael Cohen, Committee of the Regions' rapporteur on Integrated Maritime Policy for the Mediterranean

Vicente Álvarez Areces, President of the Autonomous Community of Principality of Asturias

María Muñiz de Urquiza, Member of the European Parliament

Alejandro Abellán, Director General for coordination of internal market and other European policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain

SESSION II

CHAIR: Ernesto Penas Lado, Director for Baltic Sea, North Sea and Landlocked Member States, Directorate General Maritime Policy and Fisheries, European Commission

Lenneke Joosen, Project Manager, Province of Zuid-Holland

Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary of the Scottish Government

Kent Johansson, President, Regional development committee, Region Västra Götaland and Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions

Heinz Maurus, State Secretary of Europe and Federal Affairs of Land Schleswig-Holstein, Member of the Committee of the Regions, Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy (COTER commission)

(Lead: Committee of the Regions)