21st meeting of Member States Expert Group on Integrated Maritime Policy

Member State Expert Group on Maritime Policy

25 June 2015    09:30 – 17:00

Venue:  

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

Meeting room   L130B

DRAFT agenda

Maritime policy – Events and Sea basin update

• Blue Week in Portugal – Conclusions  Director General for Maritime Policy Portugal, Mr. João Fonseca Ribeiro

Blue Week Portugal (powerpoint)

Blue Week Portugal (pdf)

• Union for Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Blue Economy
• Annual Forum of the EUSBSR and status of Blue Growth in Baltic Sea
• Conclusions of EMD Piraeus
• Norwegian new maritime strategy G.Pettersen Deputy Director Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

Norway maritime strategy.pptx

Lunch break: 13:00 to 14:30

Maritime policy – Policy implementation

• Analysis of the maritime dimension of the “Juncker plan” – the blue economy in the future implementation of the European Fund for Strategic Investments  (EFSI)

The blue economy in the future implementation of the EFSI European Fund for Strategic investments

• Ocean governance – State of play

Ocean Governance presentation (powerpoint)

• Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) K. Angel-Hansen, Director and J. Woods, Deputy Director JPI Oceans
  • strategic research and innovation agenda
  • paper on ecological aspects of deep sea mining
  • paper on ecological impact of microplastics
  • paper on intercalibration ffor Water Framework Directive
  • paper on multi-use of infrastructure for monitoring
• Interim results for the size of the blue economy – Call for participation in a follow-up meeting in September
  • blue economy presentation
  • non paper on size of blue economy 
  • tables of turnover, employment and average wages in blue economy in EU Member States
• Report from the MSEsG on Maritime Security and Surveillance

Minutes of maritime security and strategy meeting

• Study on skills requirements for the marine economy to 2020 published in Ireland in April 2015 M. Smith Permanent Representation Ireland

Ireland's Marine skills Study presentation

• Seabed mining

• Baltic Sea strategy

EUSBSR Baltic Sea

administrative forms

annex 2: application for reimbursement annex 3: expert identification  annex 4: participant form  annex 5: list of Member State Experts annex 6; reimbursement modalities annex 7: privacy statement annex 8: guidelines for using maritime forum annex 8: guidelines for using maritime forum