Information & Meetings
	Conferences & Events
	New Coastal Publications
	Courses

Organisations
	New hyperlinks to websites

Environment
	EU Ministers discussed growing impact of transport on the environment

Development & Trends
	Earth Summit 2002 preparations in full swing

Policy
	Conference on responsible fisheries feeds into Earth Summit
	Report on European fisheries policy calls for stronger control
	European Commission starts with green management system EMAS

Events recently announded

2002

June 13 - 15

InfoCoast 2, 2nd European Symposium on Knowledge and Information for the Coastal Zone, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. Info: fax: +41 22 366 7050, e-mail: linda@iprolink.ch, Website

Please note:
The overview of the Coastal Guide conference and event  meeting list can be found at http://www.coastalguide.org/meetings/
 

New Coastal Publications
 
 

European regulation on highly migratory fish The "Council Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 of 27 September 2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish" lays down control and inspection measures relating to fishing for stocks of highly migratory fish species. It shall apply to vessels flying the flag of EU Member States and registered in the Community. It is published on http://www.europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/2001/l_26320011003en.html

Courses

Summer Institute in Coastal Management 2002

The 2002 Summer Institute in Coastal Management is a month-long, intensive training for coastal management professionals conducted by the Coastal Resources Centre at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Participants and instructors from around the world attend the sessions. Training sessions include lectures, field exercises, simulations, case studies and group discussions. Trainers also integrate cases from participants' countries into selected sessions. The language of instruction is English. The program fee of 5000 USD includes tuition, housing, meals, field trips, reading materials, and special events. Find further information at: http://crc.uri.edu/train/SI2002_app.html or contact Kimberly Kaine at kkaine@gso.uri.edu.
 

 New hyperlinks

Coast Map News
http://www.cefas.co.uk/coastmap/
By providing an overview of latest developments on the marine and coastal environment, Coast Map News aims to raise awareness, stimulate discussion, and thus help towards the goal of integration. The newsletter is published by the UK Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Science.

OceanPortal
http://www.oceanportal.org/
OceanPortal is a high-level directory of Ocean Data and Information related web sites (by Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO).

Check out the other Website Links on the Coastal Guide 
 

EU Ministers discussed growing impact of transport on the environment

During the weekend of 14 - 16 September, European Ministers with responsibility for transport and environment came together in Belgium to discuss the growing negative influence of transportation on the environment. The report "Term 2001: Indicators tracking transport and environment integration in the European Union" was prepared for this meeting by the European Environment Agency (EEA). "Overall the report shows that transport in the EU is becoming less and not more sustainable," said Domingo Jimenez Beltran, EEA executive. The report warns that current trends point away from achieving the EU's recently announced objectives of breaking the link between economic growth and growth in transport, and of returning the market shares taken by rail, maritime and inland waterway transport to 1998 levels by 2010. A summary of the report notes the following statistics: - Short sea shipping has become quite successful for longer distances, accounting for 42% of total tonne-km. - There has been no increase in the energy efficiency of freight transport by road and little corresponding change in rail or shipping. - Transport is responsible for 24% of the EU's total man made emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, with transport by road alone accounting for 84% of this. CO2 emissions from transport increased by 15% between 1990 and 1998. - Transport infrastructure is increasingly fragmenting the EU countryside. The length of the motorway network has increased by more than 70% since 1980, while that of conventional railway lines and inland waterways has fallen about 9%. The European Commission, in its July 2001 political guidelines for its forthcoming White Paper on the future of the EU's common transport policy, recommended action to return the market shares of rail, maritime transport and inland waterways to their 1998 levels by 2010. The full report in English and summaries in 13 languages are posted on the EEA's web site at http://reports.eea.eu.int/term2001/. For the European Commission's policy, visit http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/en/lb_en.html.
 
 

 Earth Summit 2002 preparations in full swing

A regional Preparatory Committee for the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSSD) was held in Geneva on 24 and 25 September by the UN Economic Commission for Europe whose area includes Western, Central and Eastern Europe, USA and Canada. It ended with a joint statement on priorities for the WSSD in September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ministerial meeting gave particular attention to poverty eradication, sustainable management and conservation of the natural resource base, making globalisation work for sustainable development, improving governance and democratic process at all levels, financing sustainable development, and education, as well as science and technology for decision making. According to the environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (FoEI), however, the "governments failed to agree on the EU's proposed Global deal, which was the only substantive new idea at the negotiations". FoEI wants the governments of the ECE region to assess why unsustainable development continues and to develop a new set of actions to turn the tide of social and environmental degradation. For more information on WSSD see http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/, http://www.earthsummit2002.org/ and http://www.foei.org/whatsnew/press2001/25_september_rio.htm
 

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 Conference on responsible fisheries feeds into Earth Summit

A conference on responsible fisheries in the marine ecosystem took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 1- 4 October, organised jointly by the Government of Iceland and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The objectives of the conference were to gather and review the best available knowledge on marine ecosystem issues, to identify means by which ecosystem considerations can be included in capture fisheries management, and to identify challenges and relevant strategies. Proposals on how to meet these objectives are expected to be formulated into a conference declaration for submission to the 31st session of the FAO Conference as well as to Earth Summit 2002. More information on the conference can be found on: http://www.refisheries2001.org/index.htm

 Report on European fisheries policy calls for stronger control

The European Commission has adopted a report on the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which identifies weaknesses in Member States' control systems. This report, which covers the period from 1996 to 2000, evaluates the effectiveness of the control systems and activities of the Member States in ensuring compliance with CFP measures such as the respect of fishing quotas (TACs) or fleet capacity limits. "We need stronger resolve to put in place the necessary controls. Member States have to commit the necessary resources. In its Green Paper, the Commission stresses the need to seize the opportunity offered by the forthcoming CFP review to explore new ways of improving control arrangements. Otherwise, the CFP will suffer a fatal blow to its credibility", Franz Fischler, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, summarised the conclusions of the report. On the basis of the Green Paper and of the response to it from interested parties, the Commission will produce a Communication, to be presented to the Council and the European Parliament, on the future orientations in the domain of enforcement of CFP measures. Press release with hyperlink to "Report on the Monitoring of the Implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy": http://europa.eu.int/comm/fisheries/news_corner/press/inf01_53_en.htm

European Commission starts with green management system EMAS

To lead by example, the European Commission has decided to implement the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme EMAS in its own organisation. The final objective of the Commission is to achieve official EMAS registration. EMAS is an environmental auditing system that allows voluntary participation for organisations and public authorities operating in all 15 EU Member States and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. In 2001 already 365 companies and some public authorities were registered. The aim is to help organisations in getting a better picture of their environmental impact and to make them target more appropriately the most significant points of improvement. For more information about EMAS visit: http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/emas/index.htm

Deadline for submitting contributions to Coastal Guide News No 20: 17 October, 2001

COASTAL GUIDE NEWS is a biweekly newsletter published by the European Union for Coastal Conservation (EUCC) with financial support of Stichting DOEN, the foundation of the Dutch lottery "Postcode Loterij" and the Department of International Nature Affairs of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries. For free subscriptions, comments or contributions to this newsletter, please contact news@coastalguide.org. 

Members of the Coastal Guide News editorial team: Hanna-Maria Baerlund, Erik Devilee, Irene Lucius, Hanneke Mesters, Albert Salman.
 

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